SmartSpace Development Environment
Start an instance
After subscribing to SmartSpace in the Marketplace create and start your instance. We recommend provisioning an instance with a minimum of 2vCPUs and 16GB of memory. Only RDP access is required.
Logging in and acquiring the BYOL license
When you connect to your instance using RDP, you will see this desktop:
The key tasks are linked to by shortcuts on the left-hand side of the desktop.
Get license reference
Follow the top shortcut to register your product with Ubisense to receive a BYOL license reference:
After you complete the form you will receive a reference code for your license, sent to the email address you have registered.
Start the Ubisense platform to find your machine id
Follow the ‘Start or Stop Ubisense’ link to start the Ubisense platform. The first time you do this you will see this licensing warning, confirming that the instance id has been copied to your clipboard:
Download license file
Follow the ‘Download License File’ link to the SmartSpace License Package service:
Enter your machine id first (by pasting it) into the second text box. Then enter the license reference code from the email you received in the first text box. Pressing the Request License button will cause a zip file containing an installer MSI to be download to your machine; unzip the zip file and run the MSI to install your licenses.
Start the Ubisense platform
If you quit the Ubisense Platform Control program then follow the ‘Start or Stop Ubisense’ link again, and select each service and press ‘Start’ for each:
Clicking ‘Apply’ will change the state of each service from ‘to be started’ to ‘running’.
Connect to the location stream provider
Double click on the icon ‘Configure ISO24730’. The folder with two scripts and a binary will appear.
To subscribe to test location feed double click on the corresponding script in the folder.
Start the SmartSpace Configuration tool
Follow the ‘Configure SmartSpace’ link to start the SmartSpace Configuration tool. This will display the configuration interface for SmartSpace, initially with no topic selected:
Clicking on any of the topics in the task bar will bring up the relevant UI for that topic.
Browse the example dataset
Your SmartSpace Cloud Environment is configured with a simple example dataset, showing some of the key features of SmartSpace. The example has a simple data model, which includes Asset and Container types, with the Container type having subtypes Workspace and Trolley; some business rules count the number of assets in each container and register warning and error states when this exceeds a threshold; a search configuration creates a zero-code map UI that shows the containers and assets with colour coded numbers representing the count of assets in each container; finally the RTLS integration is configured to import live data from an external location source.
Online documentation is available at Ubisense SmartSpace, explaining in detail how to configure a SmartSpace application.
Visit your example dataset’s SmartSpace website
Follow the ‘SmartSpace Website’ link and login as Administrator using the link at the top-left of the page. This will normally happen automatically on the local machine, and you will see this screen:
You can also connect over the public internet (if you configured your instance to support public internet access) using the public address of your instance with the username/password for the Administrator user on your machine (you can set up other users via the SmartSpace USERS/ROLES configuration page or using the Web UI via the Roles tab, and you can integrate with LDAP directory services using the DIRECTORY SERVICES page if desired). Clicking on the ‘Map’ tab will display the simple zero-code application described above:
You will see the asset objects moving in response to the location data stream and the counts updating to reflect the number of assets in each container. The map supports searching for individual assets by name, and selecting assets or containers to view their details.