App – IoT Explorer

Deploy IoT use cases with ease.

Use Cases & Value

IoT Explorer is an application designed to cater to your specific use case needs. Deploy and create use cases effortlessly, including asset tracking, temperature monitoring, and presence detection, all in one centralized dashboard.

Asset Tracking

Centralize/Consolidate your asset tracking process and obtain live insights into the location and usage of your assets globally. Tailor notifications according to personalized guidelines and receive prompt alerts for significant shifts in asset behaviour and whereabouts.

Value Delivered: Increase operational efficiency to save time & cost, gain insights from historic trends to enhance decision-making, and deliver real-time visibility to stakeholders.

Useful to: Operations, Facilities, IT, Security

Presence Detection

Observe real-time and historical occupancy data of specific building spaces on a map view. Customize notification rules and receive instant alerts for any changes in space utilization.

Value Delivered: Optimize space usage and minimize energy consumption using concrete data, make informed decisions to design a hybrid work strategy, and provide stakeholders with real-time and historical data.

Useful to: Facilities, Real Estate, IT, Sustainability Stakeholders, HR

Temperature Monitoring

Streamline temperature monitoring by centralizing your efforts. Manage and monitor indoor environments globally with ease. Customize notification rules and receive instant alerts for any temperature fluctuations or deviations from the optimal temperature range.

Value Delivered: Enhance compliance, reduce inventory loss for cost savings, and facilitate better decision-making through global visibility. Historical data is also available for temperature monitoring test cases. Keep assets under compliance

Useful to: Operations, Facilities, IT, Security

IT Device Monitoring

Streamline and scale your management of multiple BLE use cases by centralizing them into a single application. Receive notifications regarding BLE tag health and easily upload tags in bulk or individually. Locate WIFI devices across multiple global locations with ease and receive important location change alerts.

Value Delivered: Effortlessly deploy devices and use cases to maximize your existing wireless infrastructure. Utilize the IoT services interface to onboard, manage, and monitor devices across different vendors in a single location. Create simple and flexible rules to achieve business-driven outcomes. Share relevant data for stakeholder visibility.

Useful to: IT

Step 1: Complete Cisco Spaces Onboarding Process

Have an account provisioned on the Cisco Spaces platform. If you don’t have an active account, please email dnaspaces@cisco.com
Create user account – Accept invitation from Cisco Spaces & setup password
Set up a Cisco Spaces connector: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/cisco-dna-spaces/connector/b_connector.html
Add your Catalyst 9800 controller to Cisco Spaces. Note that Indoor IoT Services is only supported on Catalyst 9800 controllers running at least IOS-XE 17.3.1 or higher. (17.3.2a recommended)
Setup your Location Hierarchy using the best practices guide: https://dnaspaces.cisco.com/setupguide/location-hierarchy/
IoT Explorer Configuration Guide: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/spaces/iot-explorer/config/b-iot-explorer-cg/m-temperature-monitoring-1.html

P.S. : The above process needs to be done only once. It is not repeated for every app. Please ignore if already completed.

Step 2: Steps to Deployment

Navigate to ‘About IoT Services’ page on the left-hand side of the Menu > IoT Services.
On your Day 0 of your IoT Services Activation you’ll see an Amber Banner at the top that signals that you haven’t started your deployment yet.
Once you meet all the prerequisites, go ahead and Click on the “Activate” button on the Amber Banner. You can also click on “Activate IoT Services” to begin.
Select ‘Wireless’ and Click on ‘Next’.
After a quick Prerequisite Check Screen it progresses to Activation Screen that shows how many Connectors and Controllers are up.
Post Activation Summary Screen, there are two ways to deploy IoT services.

Step 3: Deployment

a. Deploy IoT Services across ALL active devices

You can either deploy IoT Services across all locations and Access Points

Click on ‘Activate’ Button, to activate across all Connectors and Access Points
The Activation Initiation page shows the approximate amount of time it would take to deploy

b. Deploy IoT Services on selected connectors and access points

You can Also do a Customized deployment only on selected Connectors and Access Points by Clicking on ‘Click here for customization’

‘Choose’ the connectors that you would like to activate IoT Services for and click on ‘Activate’
Activation Initiation Page shows you the Approximate amount of time needed to push the settings across Controllers, Connectors and Access points.
Once the Connector is activated, Click on ‘Activate Wireless Gateway’ and
‘Select’ the APs that you want to install:
- i) APs capable of Advanced Gateway will be installed with Advanced AP Gateways/li>
- ii) APs can be filtered by location from Location Hierarchy dropdown at the top.
- iii) A Summary on the right shows the number of APs you selected
Click ‘Next’ to install the APs you have selected
Screen Showing Approximate time it would take to deploy would appear

Step 4: Post Deployment

Post Deployment you can check the status of deployment from ‘Activation Status’ section on “About IoT Services” page.

If you wish for a detailed status of deployment you can click on ‘View detailed status’ to understand which components have failed.
If you wish to troubleshoot this further you can click on ‘Troubleshoot’

Step 5: Claim BLE Devices

Visit the IoT Device Marketplace to learn about devices recommended to be used by Cisco Spaces.
Navigate to IOT Services > Device Management
Select ‘Onboard Devices’ from the main page
Select ‘Floor Beacons’
Enter your Order ID
Your BLE Devices will now be visible under Device Management > Claimed Beacons

Please take a moment to check if you’re able to successfully use the Demo Kit. Click on ‘yes’ to indicate it’s working. And on ‘Not yet’ if you need any assistance.