fiware/iotagent-lorawan repository overview

⁠FIWARE IoT Agent for the LoRaWaN Protocol

The Internet of Things Agent for LoRaWAN protocol enables data and commands to be exchanged between IoT devices and the NGSI⁠ interface of a context broker using the LoRaWAN⁠ protocol.

It is based on the IoT Agent Node.js Library⁠. Further general information about the FIWARE IoT Agents framework, its architecture and the common interaction model can be found in the library's GitHub repository.

This project is part of FIWARE⁠. For more information check the FIWARE Catalogue entry for the IoT Agents⁠.

⁠How to use this image

The IoT Agent must be instantiated and connected to an instance of the Orion Context Broker⁠, a sample docker-compose file can be found below.

If the IOTA_REGISTRY_TYPE=mongodb, a MongoDB⁠ database instance is also required - the example below assumes that you have a /data directory in your hosting system in order to hold database files - please amend the attached volume to suit your own configuration.

version: "3.1"

services:
    iot-agent:
        image: fiware/iotagent-lorawan
        hostname: iot-agent
        container_name: fiware-iot-agent
        depends_on:
            - mongodb
        expose:
            - "4041"
        ports:
            - "4041:4041"
        environment:
            - "IOTA_CB_HOST=orion"
            - "IOTA_CB_PORT=1026"
            - "IOTA_NORTH_PORT=4041"
            - "IOTA_REGISTRY_TYPE=mongodb"
            - "IOTA_MONGO_HOST=mongo-db"
            - "IOTA_MONGO_PORT=27017"
            - "IOTA_MONGO_DB=iotagent-lorawan"
            - "IOTA_PROVIDER_URL=http://iot-agent:4041"

    mongodb:
        image: mongo:3.6
        hostname: mongo-db
        container_name: db-mongo
        ports:
            - "27017:27017"
        command: --bind_ip_all --smallfiles
        volumes:
            - mongodb:/data

    orion:
        image: fiware/orion
        hostname: orion
        container_name: fiware-orion
        depends_on:
            - mongodb
        expose:
            - "1026"
        ports:
            - "1026:1026"
        command: -dbhost mongodb

    volumes:
        mongo-db: ~

⁠Configuration with environment variables

Many settings can be configured using Docker environment variables. A typical IoT Agent Docker container is driven by environment variables such as those shown below:

• IOTA_CB_HOST - Hostname of the context broker to update context
• IOTA_CB_PORT - Port that context broker listens on to update context
• IOTA_NORTH_PORT - Port used for configuring the IoT Agent and receiving context updates from the context broker
• IOTA_REGISTRY_TYPE - Whether to hold IoT device info in memory or in a database
• IOTA_MONGO_HOST - The hostname of MongoDB - used for holding device and service information
• IOTA_MONGO_PORT - The port that MongoDB is listening on
• IOTA_MONGO_DB - The name of the database used in MongoDB
• IOTA_PROVIDER_URL - URL passed to the Context Broker when commands are registered, used as a forwarding URL location when the Context Broker issues a command to a device

⁠Further Information

The full set of overrides for the general parameters applicable to all IoT Agents are described in the Configuration section of the IoT Agent Library Installation Guide⁠.

Further settings for the IoT Agent for the LoRaWaN Protocol itself - such as specific configurations for the LoRaWaN Protocol - can be found in the IoT Agent for the LoRaWaN Protocol Users Guide⁠.

⁠How to build your own image

The Dockerfile⁠ associated with this image can be used to build an image in several ways:

• By default, the Dockerfile retrieves the latest version of the codebase direct from GitHub (the build-arg is optional):

docker build -t iot-agent . --build-arg DOWNLOAD=latest

• You can alter this to obtain the last stable release run this Dockerfile with the build argument DOWNLOAD=stable

docker build -t iot-agent . --build-arg DOWNLOAD=stable

• You can also download a specific release by running this Dockerfile with the build argument DOWNLOAD=<version>

docker build -t iot-agent . --build-arg DOWNLOAD=1.7.0

• To download code from your own fork of the GitHub repository add the GITHUB_ACCOUNT and GITHUB_REPOSITORY arguments to the docker build command.

docker build -t iot-agent . --build-arg GITHUB_ACCOUNT=<your account> --build-arg GITHUB_REPOSITORY=<your repo>

Alternatively, if you want to build directly from your own sources, please copy the existing Dockerfile into file the root of the repository and amend it to copy over your local source using :

COPY . /opt/iotagent-lora/

Full instructions can be found within the Dockerfile itself.