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Before being able to access the AMI you must have completed the installation process here. Once the AMI in AWS Marketplace has been used to create an EC2 instance you are ready to continue this quickstart guide.

Summary

Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge (SSB) is an application that connects to an MQTT Server (such as AWS IoT Core) and consumes MQTT Sparkplug messages from Edge devices.  These messages must be formatted as Sparkplug Templates. Sparkplug Templates are defined in the Sparkplug Specification. These Templates are used to create the Models in AWS SiteWise automatically with no additional coding or configuration.  Then multiple instances of these Templates generate the Assets and start to populate with real time data sent on change only, thus significantly reducing the amount of data being sent to the cloud.  For further details on AWS SiteWise terminology, refer to the AWS SiteWise documentation here. For further details on Eclipse Sparkplug, refer to the Eclipse Sparkplug resources.

This Quickstart This quickstart document covers how Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge (SSB) can be used to consume MQTT Sparkplug data and create and update SiteWise Asset Models and Assets. This will show how to configure Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge as well as show how to use Inductive Automation's Ignition platform along with Cirrus Link's MQTT modules to publish device data to an MQTT Server. This data will ultimately be consumed by Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge to create and update the SiteWise components. This tutorial will use the AWS IoT Core MQTT Server implementation. However, SSB does work with any MQTT v3.1.1 compliant MQTT Server.

It is also important to note that Ignition in conjunction with Cirrus Link's MQTT Transmission module converts Ignition User Defined Types (UDTs) to Sparkplug Templates. This is done automatically by the MQTT Transmission module. So, much of this document will refer to UDTs rather than Sparkplug Templates since that is what they are in Ignition. More information on Inductive Automation's Ignition platform can be found here. Additional information on Cirrus Link's MQTT Transmission module can be found here.

Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge Setup

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