AURORAL

Get to know AURORAL platform following the tutorials that you will find in this blog. We recommend to follow the get started if you are planning to integrate your infrastructure, or to have a look on the Architecture related stories if you want to learn more about AURORAL.

This is a guide with the steps to include a new service in the AURORAL Service Store.

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In this section, the basic steps to prepare your infrastructure for the integration with AURORAL will be explained. These points are a guide to indicate the process from describing semantically your infrastructure to the connection with the AURORAL Node, but the order of the steps is not completely strict.

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The semantic adapter allows to translate data coming from heterogeneous sources into homogeneous data expressed in RDF following the AURORAL ontology by using mappings, allowing semantic interoperability, allowing interoperability. This tutorial explains how to install and manage the Semantic Adapter.

The Semantic Adapter counts with a Playground portal to test the mappings and also learn how to develop them:

https://helio-playground.linkeddata.es/home

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In this article it is described the procedure of backing up an AURORAL Node instance and restoring it in a different machine.

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In august 2022, two big updates took place which motivated the preparation of a new AURORAL Node version. This version is tagged as v2 in GitHub.

  • A new gateway was developed, which is more lightweight and should bring more stability.
  • Now AURORAL has a production environment, users can choose to connect directly or migrate their old Nodes following this guide.

Because of these changes, it is recommended to migrate the Nodes to the v2.

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In this article we will explain how to get access to information about the permissions to see AURORAL data. We will provide a way to link an external identity with certain access rights defined in AURORAL. This will be specially useful for Horizontal Services providers, which will implement their own authentication, however will still need a way to match their users with what these users can see from AURORAL.

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The Node client provides a CLI script that allows to install the software in few easy steps. It also provides support to perform some common tasks.

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If you want to start experimenting with programmatic adapter on top of prebuilt examples, there is repository for this purpose named Auroral Node-RED adapter examples on Github.

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This blog entry will discuss the ways to create a Thing Description and to annotate semantically the data exposed by a sensor.

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This blog entry is describing how to create your custom adapter for AURORAL platform, in case when already built programatic and semantic adapters don't fill your needs. For simplifying this procedure we prepared a very basic adapter in Python, so it is easier to explain the required integration steps.

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