Kontakt.io
Installation and configuration of Kontakt.io App
Eliona App for Kontakt.io digital building solutions
Kontakt.io makes Smart IoT Devices, Cloud Solutions, and Powerful APIs that help transform buildings into indoor spaces that are useful for people in their daily journey to accomplish their goals, working or being cared for, in a safe & sustainable indoor environment.
Installation
The Kontakt.io App is installed via the App Store in Eliona.
Assets
The Kontakt.io App automatically creates all necessary asset types and assets that are accessible via the configured endpoints. The following asset types are created:
Tag: Any type of BLE smart tag that provides location.
Badge: A Smart Badge or Asset Tag 2 that provides location as a tag, but has a temperature sensor and two buttons (not implemented yet).
Beacon: Beacons collect the locations of the tags and badges, plus provide information about air quality.
Portal Beam: Like beacons, but counting the number of people in the room as well.
Following attributes are defined:
position
Position
x
x
temperature
Temperature
x
x
x
air_pressure
Air pressure
x
x
humidity
Humidity
x
x
light_intensity
Light intensity
x
x
air_quality
Air quality
x
x
people_count
People count
x
firmware
Firmware version
x
x
x
x
x
model
Model of the device
x
x
x
x
x
battery_level
Battery level
x
x
x
x
x
product
Product name
x
name
Name in Kontakt.io
x
Dashboards
The Kontakt.io App offers a dashboard with all automatically created assets. This can be created automatically via the Eliona Frontend Copy Dashboard > Kontakt.io
and then customized as desired.
Configuration
For a detailed guide to configuring apps, follow the manual.
The Kontakt.io App is configured by defining one or more API tokens. Each configuration requires the following data:
apiKey
API Key
enable
Flag to enable or disable fetching from this API
refreshInterval
Interval in seconds for collecting data from API
requestTimeout
API query timeout in seconds
assetFilter
Filter for asset creation, more details can be found in app's README. Filterable fields are specified in assets table above.
projectIDs
List of Eliona project ids for which this device should collect data. For each project id, all smart devices are automatically created as an asset in Eliona. The mapping between Eliona is stored as an asset mapping in the Kontakt.io app.
The configuration is done via a corresponding JSON structure. As an example, the following JSON structure can be used to define an endpoint:
Endpoints can be created using this structure in Eliona under Apps > Kontakt.io > Settings
. To do this, select the /configs endpoint with the PUT method.
Floors height settings
Since the Kontakt.io system provides references to rooms instead of 3D coordinates of tags, the app needs to convert internally between the two systems to display assets on a map and BIM model in Eliona. To do this, the app needs to know the height above ground of each floor (the Z coordinate).
To facilitate this setting, the app retrieves all floors set up in the Kontakt.io system and displays them in a widget on the dashboard. Here, the user can set the heights of the floors that will be used by the app from that moment on.
Once the heights are set, the widget can be removed. For later changes, the Asset Management section could be used.
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