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LocationAction - AWS IoT

LocationAction

The Amazon Location rule action sends device location updates from an MQTT message to an Amazon Location tracker resource.

Contents

deviceId

The unique ID of the device providing the location data.

Type: String

Required: Yes

latitude

A string that evaluates to a double value that represents the latitude of the device's location.

Type: String

Required: Yes

longitude

A string that evaluates to a double value that represents the longitude of the device's location.

Type: String

Required: Yes

roleArn

The IAM role that grants permission to write to the Amazon Location resource.

Type: String

Required: Yes

trackerName

The name of the tracker resource in Amazon Location in which the location is updated.

Type: String

Required: Yes

timestamp

The time that the location data was sampled. The default value is the time the MQTT message was processed.

Type: LocationTimestamp object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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