Adding Device Profile

Topic updated on November 08, 2023

Adding Device Profile

To add a new device profile, do the following:

On Developer main screen in the LWM2M group, click Device profiles.
The Device Profiles screen appears.
Click New device profile.

Enter the following fields to create a new Device Profile:

	Parameters	Description
1	Name	The name of the Device Profile
2	Description	An optional description of the Device Profile
3	Global	Check Global to make a profile global and it will be available across all the Orgs. It is set only by a SuperOps+ user.
4	Location Enabled	When Location Enabled is set to Yes, the location reported by the module is donated to the cellular location decode provider.
5	Reads	The Read operation is used to access the value of a Resource, an array of Resource Instances, an Object Instance or all the Object Instances of an Object. For more information on Reads, see Defining Reads
6	Bindings	The Binding is used to bind the value of a Resource to a Property or an Attribute of a Thing. For more information on Bindings, see Defining Bindings
7	Application Server	The application server is a specific server this is contacted by the Client during its first and every boot-up to initialize the data model. The first Application server must have the "This server" Server type. It is not possible to delete the first Application server if the next available Application server is not the "This server" Server type. If there is only one Application server, it is possible to delete it, but all Applications servers will be restored if a save is done to the Device profile without adding a new Application server.
8	Application ACLs	The LWM2M defines access rights to each Application Server to access a specific object in the data model
9	FOTA settings	The FOTA settings enable you to define the object, instance, and resource to read the current firmware version. For more information on FOTA settings, see Defining FOTA settings
10	CoAP	The CoAP settings. In the CoAP tab you define the following: Ack Timeout: The amount of time the deviceWISE Cloud needs to wait for ACK from the device on the already sent message Maximum retransmission: The number of times the message is retransmitted until the deviceWISE Cloud receives an ACK
11	Other	The default SMS provider is selected for sending SMS messages

Click Add.

Reads specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Object	The LWM2M object.
Instance	The Instance within the LWM2M object.
Resource	The specific object resource.
Read on register	If the path should be read on the LWM2M device registration.
Read on update	If the path should be read on the LWM2M device update.
Observe*	If the observation should be set on the path.
Priority	It defines an order to how the reads are made. If set to yes, the reads and observations would be made before the others.
* If set to Yes, it is possible to observe updates (Read on Register and Read on Update) of specific and general paths. For example, it is possible to follow updates on paths, the path being an Object, an Object Instance or Object Instance and Resource.

Bindings specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Object	The LWM2M object.
Instance	The Instance within the LWM2M object.
Resource	The specific object resource.
Type	Type defines which entity is associated with the resource. The options would be Property or Attribute.

Application Servers specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Server Type	Defines the settings of the specific Application Server type, valid options would be Self or Custom Third-Party.
Security Mode	The security mode can be set to DTLS pre-shared key or no security.
Short server ID	A unique identifier for each LWM2M server configured for the client. Valid options would be 1 through 65,534 inclusive.
Lifetime	It is the registration duration defined in seconds.
Default minimum period	The shortest time allowed between observation notifications. It is set in seconds.
Default maximum period	The longest time allowed between observation notifications. It is set in seconds.
Disable timeout	It is the period in seconds that the device must wait before registering with the server if the disable resource is executed.
Notification storing	It is a boolean value that defines if the notification should be stored for future transmission when the device next connects to the server.
Binding	The transport binding the device should use.
Server SMS number	The SMS number the client may use to communicate to the server.

Application ACLs specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Object	The LWM2M object.
Instance	The Instance within the LWM2M object.
Access Rights	Defines the access of a server to an object instance.
Owner short ID	The value will be one of the short server IDs from the Application Servers tab.

FOTA Settings specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Object	The LWM2M object.
Instance	The Instance within the LWM2M object.
Resource	The specific object resource.
Encoding	The encoding to be used for the communication to the device. Options are Text and TLV.
Device does not support DNS	If the device support DNS resolution, this value should be set to no.
Transfer protocol	Protocol supported for the update, options being HTTP, CoAPS, CoAP and HTTPS.
Check version on update	If the firmware version should be checked upon registration update.
Set PMIN/PMAX attributes on observe	If the PMIN/PMAX should be set on the resource attribute.

CoaP specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Ack timeout	The length of time in seconds that the server should wait for the CoaP message to be acknowledged.
Maximum retransmissions	The number of times the server should retry sending a CoaP message.

Other specific parameters

Parameters	Description
Default SMS provider to use for sms messaging	The default SMS provider to use for SMS messaging. The options will vary depending on the available providers.