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Bosch IoT Suite uses digital twin technology for virtual representation of a product and refers to it as a Thing, which stores the state of the Device and provides an API for it. To define the capabilities of a Thing, Eclipse models can be used. For more details refer to Digital Twin.
The local Things REST API allows access to the gateway services and connected devices, when you are not connected to the cloud or the suite. Now you can move applications from the cloud to the edge using the same existing APIs.
What it Does
The local Things REST API provides you the information about all devices connected to the gateway so you can search and choose among them against a specified attribute via the REST requests. The local Things REST API is provided for things that are connected to the Bosch IoT Edge Services locally. The gateway has its own thing representation. As a result the Things REST API provides you with programming interface with a RESTful design to create applications for accessing and modifying (if possible) the properties of devices, requesting the execution of actions and for subscribing for thing change events.
How it Works
With Things REST API, the device is represented as a Thing and its Functional Items as Features of the Thing. As a local representation of the existing Things REST API, you can use it to access Things and Features, which are connected with the Functional Item Manager, that provides devices and functional items with the following mapping:
