Comparison between Boda Industrial Cloud and Alibaba Cloud

1. Boda Industrial Cloud

1.1 Platform Overview

1.2 Monitor large screen

1.3 Cloud Configuration

1.4 Device Monitoring

1.5 Alarm Center

1.6 Data Center

1.7 Project Management

1.8 Device Management

1.9 OTA management

1.10 Video Surveillance

1.11 User Center

2. Alibaba Cloud

2.1 Greenhouse Monitoring Screen

2.2 Raspberry Pi to build a computer room monitoring application

3. Comparison and Analysis

3.1 About App Development

Boda Industrial Cloud and Alibaba Cloud both provide web visualization development, and both require components to be bound to corresponding data streams.

Alibaba Cloud provides mobile visual development, supports generating HTML5 applications and publishing them with domain names, but some mobile phones have compatibility issues.

Boda Industrial Cloud provides WeChat public account and Android/IOS APP. It is necessary to understand Boda's APP development method.

Alibaba Cloud provides personal component development, and Boda Industrial Cloud may need to open relevant interfaces for personal component development.

3.2 About Device Access

Alibaba Cloud IoT platform currently supports MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP access. If you want to use modbus, you need to use the edge computing platform and create a corresponding instance.

I don't know the device access method of Boda Industrial Cloud yet. Do I have to use IoT hardware?Do you provide APIs related to device access?

3.3 About Device Security Certification

Alibaba Cloud provides IoT device authentication ID² (Internet Device ID).

ID² is a trusted identity for IoT devices, with the security attributes that cannot be tampered with, cannot be forged, and is globally unique.

At present, I don't know the function of Boda Industrial Cloud's device security certification, whether it can realize the device self-registration, and whether the platform can automatically assign the device ID to ensure that the device ID is unique.

About device security authentication, it is best to burn to a fixed address of the device and set it to read-only.

3.4 About Role Management

Boda Industrial Cloud provides detailed role rights management, including platform overview, monitoring large screen, cloud configuration, online monitoring, etc.

Alibaba Cloud needs to activate the account function to perform permission management. At present, it is not known whether it has more detailed permission management functions.

3.5 About Web Applications

Alibaba Cloud provides IoT application development and background project management for individual developers and enterprise users, and the interface is universal.

Boda Industrial Cloud provides privatized deployment, and the interface can be customized.

Considering the portability of data, it is best to use a back-end front-end management solution similar to Boda, which can better migrate website data when the server needs to be replaced.

3.6 About cloud platform selection and compatibility

At present, there are many cloud platforms. Although the protocols used in data transmission are similar, when accessing the platform, each cloud platform is incompatible with each other. This is due to the different server addresses and device authentication methods of each cloud platform..

If you want to use the visual development that comes with a cloud platform, you must create the corresponding product first, and the device access must also be adapted to the cloud platform.

3.7 About edge computing

Boda currently does not support edge computing.

Alibaba Cloud provides edge computing services.

3.8 About file management

Boda does not support file transfer, and OTA firmware upgrade is only for smart gateways.

Alibaba Cloud supports file transfer, and the total capacity of an account is limited to 1G.

Article author:GentleTK
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