Published February 28, 2018 © LGPL

Getting started with Surilli GSM: Cloud & Console

Simply scan your Surilli GSM. Console and plug it in your PC to automatically establish connection with the cloud.

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Getting started with Surilli GSM: Cloud & Console

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Surilli GSM

Surilli Antenna

Surilli Battery

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Surilli Cloud

Story

Say Hi to Surilli Cloud! A ready-made cloud service with device and project management console for Surilli hardware.

Hello and welcome back with yet another tutorial on surilli.io IOT product development platform. Today we will be getting hands on experience with Surilli Cloud, a generic cloud service for all Surilli hardware devices to communicate with their software applications.

About:

In this tutorial we will get started with Surilli Cloud, make a project, add a device into our project and start sending Hello messages to our cloud and visualize it in our cloud console.

We will be discussing other things in detail later in the tutorial. So for now let's get started.

STEP 1: Setting-Up Surilli Cloud

Just follow all the picture steps below.

We need to register an account with our Surilli Cloud first.

1. Register

Start following this link: Surilli Cloud Link

Hit Register and move to next step (1.1)

Fill all the data fields and click "Register" (1.2)

2. Account verification:

Now we need to verify our account. An email will be sent to your email id from which you have created the account. Click on the link that has been sent to you and it will redirect you to a web-page. Now your account has been verified.

NOTE: You can not login if your account has not been verified.

3. Login to Surilli Cloud:

Now log in to the Surilli cloud and keep following the steps:

Go to "Projects" tab (3.2)

Add a new project (3.3)

Give your project a Name and Description (3.4)

Your new project will now show up as shown in the picture above (3.5)

Now you have to add devices into your project. This is where the magic begins:

Click on the little boxes to open the project (3.6)

The step below is important. You have to give permission to the webpage to access your webcam. Webcam will be used to read the QR code given on the back of your device box.

Give permission to access webcam as above. This might vary depending upon you web browser. (3.7)

Give Name to your device. Rest of the fields should fill up automatically when you scan the QR code on the back of your Surilli device box. (3.9)

Hit "Create" once all the fields are filled.

Note: If your webcam doesn't turn on in the dialog box, this is because you haven't given permissions to webcam.

Once the QR code has been scanned and device is added, it will start to show up a shown above. (3.10)

Click on the "Events" tab and this page will open (3.11)

STEP 2: Setting up Surilli:

Setup your Surilli Device (Connect the battery and Antenna in order to use Surilli GSM).

Make sure you have selected the right Port and Board.

Now that the cloud is ready and can show data being sent from our Surilli device, we will program our Surilli through Arduino IDE as shown in the Figure Steps below.

Launch Arduino IDE and open Surilli Cloud GSM example.

For GSM: File > Examples > SurilliCloudGSM > SurilliCloudGSMSend

Open this example.

FOR GSM:

Just change the APN name to your operator name.

After all this is done, Just hit upload sketch.

STEP 3: Last Steps:

Its all done. Hello messages will start to appear on your Cloud Console as shown in the picture below:

Messages appearing on your cloud console.

Summary:

Similarly, you can add as many devices as you want into a single project. Just scan the QR code and then use our cloud library to publish data on to our Surilli cloud console!

That's it. If you have any queries, feel free to contact us :)