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12.3.15. Kii
12.3.15.1. Introduction
Kii Cloud is an MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) and an IoT (Internet of Things) cloud platform provided by Kii
Corporation.
Kii offers a cloud service that provides various server-side functions as versatile APIs for mobile apps and IoT
solutions. By leveraging these APIs, the user can provide services making mobile apps and things Internet-ready
without the server-side implementations and operations.
To learn more about the advantages of using the Kii Cloud see this page:
http://docs.kii.com/en/starts/merits
In order to make it easier for developers and system integrators to use these APIs, Kii offers a set of SDKs (
http://
docs.kii.com/en/references
) for multiple platforms.
12.3.15.2. Internet of Things (IoT)
For IoT scenarios Kii offers the Thing-IF SDK (
https://docs.kii.com/en/guides/thingifsdk
). Thing Interaction
Framework (Thing-IF
https://docs.kii.com/en/starts/iot-functions/basic_function
) is a framework positioned above
the Kii Cloud SDK. It is a combination of selected features of the Kii Cloud SDK to accelerate IoT solutions.
Devices which are part of IoT solutions are called things in the Kii Cloud environment.
12.3.15.3. Connector basics
The Kii Cloud connector runs on Meshlium as an agent/daemon that periodically checks the local database for
incoming sensor data (eg. frames coming from remote Waspmotes). The Meshlium unit itself is registered as a
gateway against the Kii Cloud and the nodes sending sensor data are dynamically registered as end-nodes of the
gateway. The sensor data itself provided by the nodes is sent to the Kii Cloud as Thing-IF states (
http://docs.kii.
com/en/functions/thingifsdk/thingifsdk/model/states
) which reflect a node’s sensor data snapshot at a specific
point in time.
Once the nodes are sending states on the Kii Cloud you could for example browse the node’s current and historical
sensor values on a mobile application by using the Thing-IF SDK for Android (
https://docs.kii.com/en/guides/
thingifsdk/android
) or iOS (
https://docs.kii.com/en/guides/thingifsdk/ios
).
12.3.15.4.
Connector configuration and operation
You can configure the Kii Cloud connector in the Cloud Connector tab of the Meshlium Manager System. Click on
IoT Platforms and select Kii.
Figure: Kii Cloud Connector