Losant

Losant is an Enterprise IoT platform that provides a cloud software foundation to build and scale compelling IoT Applications. Losant has a unique, low-code approach to Application development and provides a toolset for developing dashboards to visualize data in multiple ways. Messages sent from the Senet platform will be forwarded in JSON format (See Default Data Fields). Losant supports HTTP-type connections called Webhooks.

Losant Application Templates

A variety of preconfigured Application Templates are available from a number of different entities. Senet has collaborated with Losant to provide an Application Template that delivers visualization and alerting for a Milesight AM107 Ambience Monitor which can be found here.

Platform Setup

To start taking advantage of Losant, a user of the platform will need to create at least one of each of the following:

• Application
  
  • New Application
    
    • Senet Application Template
      
• Webhook
  
• Workflow
  

And optionally:

• Device Recipe
  
• Custom Node
  
• Dashboard
  
  • New Dashboard
    

Losant Platform Setup Steps

• Navigate to the Losant platform
• Create a new Application, either from a template or a new blank Application.
  
• Navigate to the Webhook page and create a new Webhook. You can optionally choose to require basic authentication for requests against this Webhook.
  

• After you've created the Webhook, note the Webhook URL displayed in the Webhook table.
  

Notifier Setup in the Senet Portal

• Return to the Senet Portal
  
• Expand the Device settings menu in the top right corner of the Device tile (top arrow)
  
• Open the Edit Device menu by clicking the gear icon (middle arrow)
  
• Edit the target Device's Notification Target
  
• Verify the Notification Target is enabled
  
• Choose Losant from the drop down menu (bottom arrow)
  

• Specify the Losant Webhook URL as the Notification Target Webhook URL in the Senet Portal.
  

• For Webhooks configured with optional basic authentication:
  
• In the example below a username of exUser and a password of exPass are used
  
• Convert the username and password to Base64 encoding using the provided Encode Username:Password link
  
• Enter the username and password then press Ok to fill in the Authorization string
  

Getting Started with Losant

Creating a Workflow

• Return to the Losant platform
  
• Navigate to the Workflow page
  
• If the workflow does not already exist or the Senet template will not be utilized, create a new Application-type Workflow using the Add Workflow button
  

• Enter the Workflow editor by clicking on the Workflow from the list of created workflows. In the example below the Senet Developer - Milesight AM107 template workflow will be shown
  
• Once in the Workflow editor, add a Webhook-type node to the Workflow if one does not already exist. The Webhook node will act as the ingress into Losant
  

• Click on the Webhook node to edit it. Select the corresponding Webhook (from section Losant Platform Setup Steps) under the Webhook Name dropdown menu
  

• Continue exploring the Losant platform by watching Losant solutions architect Kevin Niemiller and Senet's CTO and COO, Dave Kjendal, walk through the Senet Application Template in a Deeper Dive Webinar replay: