Insights Hub Onboarding a MindConnect Hardware Device

You have purchased a MindConnect hardware gateway and you want to start uploading machine data to MindSphere.

For detailed instructions see the MindSphere "Getting Connected" guide here:

https://documentation.mindsphere.io/resources/html/getting-connected/en-US/103386314379.html

The following general steps describe how to onboard a MindConnect Nano and configure the Data Mapping in the Asset Manager.  Through this process, we connect the Datasource (Plant/Machine) with the Aspects (stored in MindSphere). For this example, we use the S7 protocol and read out an Integer variable from a SIMATIC S7-1500.

• Create new Asset and configure MindConnect Agent (Menu "Asset" on the left)
• Create new asset based on "core.mcnano" and give a name (e.g. Asset_NanoAgent)
• Insert unique box ID and configure Web- and Plant-Interfaces (as shown in the documentation link)
• Optional: update Firmware if necessary
• Download config file and onboard Nano Box

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