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Cellular Interface Demo (Zero Touch Provisioning)

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Introduction

1NCE is a global IoT Carrier that specializes in providing managed connectivity services for low bandwidth IoT applications. In this demo, the 1NCE service (a 1NCE sim card + AWS IoT device onboarding server) and a BG96 cellular module are used to demonstrate how to provision a device with zero-touch and to connect to AWS IoT core. Refer to the 1nce blueprint for FreeRTOS and, in particular, to this flow chart, to learn how the zero-touch-provisioning works.

Download the source code

The source code can be downloaded from the FreeRTOS labs or by itself through Github.

To clone using HTTPS:

git clone https://github.com/FreeRTOS/Lab-Project-FreeRTOS-Cellular-Demo.git --recurse-submodules

Using SSH:

git clone git@github.com:FreeRTOS/Lab-Project-FreeRTOS-Cellular-Demo.git --recurse-submodules

If you have downloaded the repo without using the --recurse-submodules argument, you must run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Source Code Organization

The demo project is called 1nce_bg96_zero_touch_provisioning_demo.sln and can be found found on Github in the following directory.

./Lab-Project-FreeRTOS-Cellular-Demo
├── lib
│   ├── backoff_algorithm ( submodule : backoffAlgorithm )
│   ├── cellular ( submodule : FreeRTOS-Cellular-Interface )
│   ├── coreMQTT ( submodule : coreMQTT )
│   ├── FreeRTOS ( submodule : FreeRTOS-Kernel )
│   └── ThirdParty
│       └── mbedtls ( submodule : mbedtls )
├── projects
│   ├──  sim70x0_mqtt_mutual_auth_demo ( demo project for SIMCOM sim7080/sim7090 )
│   └──  1nce_bg96_zero_touch_provisioning_demo ( demo project for 1nce zero touch provisioning with BG96 )
└── source
    ├── cellular
    │   └── ( code for adapting FreeRTOS Cellular Library with this demo )
    ├── coreMQTT
    │   └── ( code for adapting coreMQTT with this demo )
    ├── FreeRTOS
    │   └── ( code for adapting FreeRTOS with this demo )
    ├── mbedtls
    │   └── ( code for adapting mbedtls with this demo )
    ├── main.c
    ├── cellular_setup.c
    ├── MutualAuthMQTTExample.c
    ├── demo_config.h
    ├── logging_levels.h
    ├── logging_stack.h
    ├── 1nce_zero_touch_provisioning.h
    └── 1nce_zero_touch_provisioning.c

Configure the Application Settings

Configure the cellular network

The following parameters in the cellular configuration, cellular_config.h, must be modified for your network environment.

Configuration Description Value
CELLULAR_COMM_INTERFACE_PORT Cellular communication interface make use of COM port on computer to communicate with cellular module on windows simulator. Your COM port connected to cellular module
CELLULAR_APN Default APN for network registration. Specify the value according to your network operator.
CELLULAR_PDN_CONTEXT_ID PDN context id for cellular network. Default value is CELLULAR_PDN_CONTEXT_ID_MIN.
CELLULAR_PDN_CONNECT_TIMEOUT PDN connect timeout for network registration. Default value is 100000 milliseconds.

Configure the MQTT broker

The configuration for connecting to a MQTT broker can be found in "source/demo_config.h". Refer to the documentation for more information about the settings.

Configure the COM port settings

Reference the cellular module documentation for COM port settings. Update the comm_if_windows.c if necessary.

Configure the other sub-modules

"source/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOSConfig.h", "source/mbedtls/mbedtls_config.h" and "Common/core_mqtt_config.h" are configurations for the corresponding sub-modules.

Build and run the 1nce zero-touch-provisioning demo

  1. In Visual Studio, open the 1nce_bg96_zero_touch_provisioning_demo.sln project. In this Visual Studio solution file, the macro USE_1NCE_ZERO_TOUCH_PROVISIONING is defined. Please look for #ifdef USE_1NCE_ZERO_TOUCH_PROVISIONING in the source files to see the difference in how a device using the 1nce service is provisioned. Otherwise, this demo performs the same mutually authenticated MQTT operations as the other demos.

  2. Generate a self-signed certificate and its private key locally. Update "demo_config.h" with the certificate and private key. These are used to establish a TLS connection to the 1nce server. Note that the keys are placed in a header file for demonstration purposes only; production devices should use secure storage to store the keys.

  3. Get the Access Point Name (APN) for your SIM card from 1NCE. Update CELLULAR_APN in the file "cellular_config.h" for BG96, and follow the steps in "Configure the Application Settings" above to finish the rest of the configuration.

  4. Compile and run.

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