Questions

Device

• What Device Protocols do you support?
  • HTTP,
  • MQTT v3.1.1
• What methods of authentication do you support?
  • JWT => Refer Creating JWT section.
  • mTLS

Security

• How do OmniCore ensures the data security?
  • We have put in several security checks in place to ensure customer data security. Set up a discuss with us to dicuss know the details.
• Can I bring my own Identity Provider?
  • Yes as long as your Identity Provider supports SAML (and soon OpenId)

Performance

• How can I improve the MQTT connection performance if my device connects and disconnects several times a day?
  • You can increase the JWT lifetime to 24 hours and use the same token while connecting. We internally cache the JWT tokens. So this should see some connection improvement.

Hosting

• Can OmniCore be hosted outside GCP?
  • Currently OmniCore is supported only on GCP. See Deploymnent Options section

Edge

• Do you have Edge solution?
  • Yes, we have build intergrations with EdgeXFoundry.

Existing GCP IoT Core Customers

• I created a registry and device in OmniCore. Now I am trying to connect to OmniCore MQTT v3.1.1 endpoint. But all attempts have failed. What am I missing?
  • There are 4 changes in how you connect to OmniCore compared to Google IoT Core.

    Changes	GCP IoT Core	OmniCore
    Device Id Format	projects/my-project-id/locations/my-location-id/registries/my-registry-id/devices/my-device-id	subscriptions/my-subscription-id/registries/my-registry-id/devices/my-device-id
    Certificate	https://pki.goog/roots.pem	https://pki.cloud.korewireless.com/roots.pem
    MQTTS Endpoint	mqtt.googleapis.com	hostprefix.mqtt.korewireless.com
    Mqtt Topic Structure	/devices/device-id/topic	/registry-id/device-id/topic