What is AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk?
With AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, you can onboard yourAmazon Sidewalk end devices to AWS IoT and manage and monitor them. It also manages the destinations that send device data to other AWS services.
The following topics will help you learn about Amazon Sidewalk and AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk.
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What is Amazon Sidewalk?
Amazon Sidewalk is a secure community network that uses Amazon Sidewalk Bridges, such as compatible Amazon Echo and Ring devices, to provide cloud connectivity for IoT devices. Amazon Sidewalk enables low-bandwidth and long-range connectivity at home and beyond using Bluetooth LE for short-distance communication and LoRa and FSK radio protocols at 900MHz frequencies to cover longer distances.
When Amazon Sidewalk is enabled, this network can support other Sidewalk end devices in your community, and can be used for applications such as sensing your environment. Amazon Sidewalk helps your devices get and stay connected.
Features of Amazon Sidewalk
The following are features of Amazon Sidewalk.
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Amazon Sidewalk creates a low-bandwidth network using Sidewalk gateways that include Ring and select Echo devices. Using gateways, you can share a portion of your internet bandwidth, which is then used to connect your end devices to the network.
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Amazon Sidewalk offers a secure networking mechanism with multiple layers of encryption and security.
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Amazon Sidewalk offers a simple mechanism to enable or disable participation in Sidewalk.
Amazon Sidewalk concepts
The following are some key concepts of Amazon Sidewalk.
- Sidewalk gateways
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Sidewalk gateways, or Amazon Sidewalk bridges, route data between your Sidewalk end devices and the cloud. Gateways are Amazon devices, such as the Echo device or the Ring Floodlight Cam, that support SubG-CSS (asynchronous, LDR), SubG-FSK (synchronous, HDR), or Bluetooth LE for Sidewalk communication. Sidewalk gateways share a portion of your internet bandwidth with the Sidewalk community to provide connectivity to a group of Sidewalk-enabled devices.
- Sidewalk end devices
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Sidewalk end devices roam on Amazon Sidewalk by connecting to Sidewalk gateways. The end devices are low-bandwidth, low-power smart products, such as Sidewalk-enabled lights or door locks.
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Certain Sidewalk gateways can also act as end devices.
- Sidewalk Network Server
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The Sidewalk Network Server, operated by Amazon, verifies the incoming packets and routes uplink and downlink messages to the desired destination, while keeping the Sidewalk network time-synchronized.
Learn more about Amazon Sidewalk
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How AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk works
With AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, you can onboard your Amazon Sidewalk end devices to AWS IoT and manage and monitor them. It also manages the destinations that send device data to other AWS services
AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk provides the cloud services that you can use to connect your Sidewalk end devices to the AWS Cloud and use other AWS services. You can also use AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk to manage your Sidewalk devices, and monitor and build applications on them.
Sidewalk end devices communicate with AWS IoT Core through Sidewalk gateways. AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk manages the service and device policies that AWS IoT Core requires to manage and communicate with the Sidewalk end devices and gateways. It also manages the destinations that send device data to other AWS services.
Get started using AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
You can use the AWS IoT console, the AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk API, or the AWS CLI to create and onboard Sidewalk end devices and connect them to the Sidewalk network. For information about getting started with Amazon Sidewalk and onboarding end devices to AWS IoT, see the following topics.
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Getting started with AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This topic walks through the prerequisites for onboarding your Sidewalk end devices, illustrates the workflow using a sensor monitoring application, and provides an overview of how to onboard your device using AWS CLI commands.
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Connecting to AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This section describes the different steps in the onboarding workflow introduction, and walks through onboarding your end devices using the console, and the API operations. You'll also connect your device and view messages that are exchanged between your device and AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk.
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Bulk provisioning devices with AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
This section provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial for bulk provisioning your Sidewalk end devices using AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk. You'll learn the bulk provisioning workflow, and how to onboard a large number of Sidewalk devices.
Learn more about AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk
For more information about AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, see the following web pages:
