Connect Thingsee IoT to standard IoT data endpoints

Parse platform is an open-source application stack alternative to Google Firebase. Parse has similar features as the Google Firebase, but a deployment and usage is free (well, you need to pay for the hosting anyway). Parse can be self-hosted on-premises (e.g. Docker) or as a hosted service.

Integrate IoT data just like any Parse document

Thingsee Cloud can send messages by using Parse REST API. This can be as simple as creating a Parse installation, opening the rest API and allowing us to push data using the APPLICATION_ID (from Parse). Note, that the example below creates new Parse classes for each Thingsee Message type (tsm), and every message is send separately.

curl --location --request POST 'https://yourdomain.tld/parse/classes/tsmId_12100' \
--header 'X-Parse-Application-Id: APPLICATION_ID' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '
    {
    "tsmId": 12100,
    "tsmEv": 10,
    "airp": 101364.599,
    "lght": 6,
    "temp": 21.3,
    "humd": 21.7,
    "tsmTs": 1520416221,
    "tsmTuid": "XXXX03X2Z80562557",
    "tsmGw": "XXXX00EFS80560445"
    }

Send IoT data as bundles

The other option is to send Thingsee message bundles and have Parse processing the bundle using Parse’s Cloud Functions. This is a more efficient approach as it allows the same HTTP request to send multiple messages; and it follows the same cloud-function methodology as Google Firebase.

curl --location --request POST 'https://yourdomain.tld/parse/functions/upload-tsm' \
--header 'X-Parse-Application-Id: APPLICATION_ID' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "data" : [{
    "tsmId": 1110,
    "tsmEv": 10,
    "batl": 100,
    "tsmTs": 1520416221,
    "tsmTuid": "XXXX03X2Z80562557",
    "tsmGw": "XXXX00EFS80560445"
    },
    {
    "tsmId": 12100,
    "tsmEv": 10,
    "airp": 101364.599,
    "lght": 6,
    "temp": 21.3,
    "humd": 21.7,
    "tsmTs": 1520416221,
    "tsmTuid": "XXXX03X2Z80562557",
    "tsmGw": "XXXX00EFS80560445"
    }]
}'

Parse Cloud function for handling Thingsee IoT messages

//  Just an example. Not yet battle-tested in production environments.

Parse.Cloud.define("upload-tsm", async (request) => {
  request.params.data.forEach(message => {
    if (message.tsmTs && message.tsmTuid && message.tsmId) {
      var TsmClass = Parse.Object.extend("tsm_"+message.tsmId);
      var tsm = new TsmClass();
      for (var propt in message) {
        tsm.set(propt, message[propt]);
      }
      tsm.save()
        .then((tsm) => {
        }, (error) => {
        console.log('Failed to create new object, with error code: ' + error.message);
        });
      }
  });
  return '{"done" : true}';
});

Parse Dashboard

Parse Dashboard gives you a quick view to your IoT data storage