Mappers

Overview

Mapper is an application that is used to connect and control devices. The responsibilities of mapper are as follows:

• Scan and connect to the device.
• Report the actual state of twin-attributes of device.
• Map the expected state of device-twin to actual state of device-twin.
• Collect telemetry data from device.
• Convert readings from device to format accepted by KubeEdge.
• Schedule actions on the device.
• Check health of the device.

Types

Now we have,

• bluetooth mapper

• modbus mapper

• Opcua mapper

For other mappers, we could follow this guide to genenrate your own mapper to control the edge devices.