Klyff provides a lot of device connectivity options. The diagram below is designed to provide a visual overview of existing options and help you to choose the correct option for your devices. In case you have not found out how to connect your device using the diagram or something is not clear, please contact us and help us to improve this guide.
Connecting well-known devices
You can check the Devices library section to explore how to connect widely used devices to Klyff.
Built-in transport protocols
The built-in transport protocol implementations are applicable for devices that communicate over those protocols and are able to connect directly to Klyff.
- MQTT API reference
- MQTT Sparkplug API reference
- CoAP API reference
- HTTP API reference
- LwM2M API reference
- SNMP API reference
Most of the protocols above support JSON, Protobuf or own data format. This is the best option for new devices when you have control over the firmware.
IoT Gateway
Klyff IoT Gateway helps to connect devices that are located in the local network and do not have access to the internet or use specific non-IP protocols. IoT Gateway supports MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, BLE, HTTP, CAN, BACnet, ODBC, SNMP and other protocols. The gateway converts the data from devices to internal Klyff format and upload it over MQTT to the platform. See What is IoT Gateway? for more info.
LoRaWAN
It is possible to integrate ChirpStack network server with Klyff Community Edition using this guide.
Klyff PE supports ChirpStack and many other network servers via Integrations. For example: TheThingsStack, TheThingsIndustries, LORIOT, Actility ThingPark or any other network server that supports the webhooks or mqtt. Big advantage of Klyff PE integrations is the ability to define custom data converter functions.
Sigfox
Klyff PE supports Sigfox integration out-of-the-box.
NB IoT and other protocols
Klyff PE supports many Integrations that cover most of the devices on the market. Please contact us if you need help to connect your device.