Understanding the Device Management Framework

The WSO2 Connected Device Management Framework (CDMF) is a framework that provides extensions to plug device type implementations. This framework can primarily be used to manage device type plugins. WSO2 CDMF has several exposed APIs and supports operation, policy, and configuration management. It also has inbuilt support to execute operations and fetch the status of operations. Furthermore, this framework also provides the capability of extending its existing functionality by implementing interfaces.

Creating a device type

Before creating a device type, let’s dive into a few basic concepts of a device type in the WSO2 Connected Device Management Framework (CDMF). Each device type in WSO2 CDMF consists of 3 main sections as shown below:

• Device plugin
  Device plugin is a device type extension from CDMF.

• Device APIs
  Device APIs is a REST API that is secured with WSO2 API Manager. 

• UI Extensions
  UI Extension can be used to override existing default user interfaces. This extension follows the Unified UI Framework.