Siemens SIMATIC Industrie-PC

1 Overview

The SIMATIC IPC PX-39A is a fan-free embedded panel PC with powerful 11th generation Intel Core-i processor for complex visualization and control tasks. The SIMATIC IPC PX-39A is a fan-free embedded panel PC for complex visualization and control tasks with multi-touch display. It is maintenance-free and can be configured, integrated, and commissioned flexibly and simply. With its rugged metal enclosure, it can withstand even severe mechanical stress. In this Getting Started document, you will find information about how to setup AWS IoT Greengrass on an SIMATIC IPC PX-39A running Linux or Windows operating system.

1.1 About AWS IoT Greengrass

To learn more about AWS IoT Greengrass, see how it works and what's new.

2 Hardware Description

3 Set up your Development Environment

4 Set up your hardware

Please refer to chapter 4 (Operating Instructions) of Operating Instructions for installing Windows on IPCs. For running AWS IoT Greengrass on Linux please download (Ubuntu) and install Ubuntu on IPC PX-39A.

5 Setup your AWS account and Permissions

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Set up your AWS Account. Follow the steps outlined in the sections below to create your account and a user and get started:

• Sign up for an AWS account (AWS registration) and
• Create a user and grant permissions (create IAM user)
• Open the AWS IoT console (AWS IoT console sign-in)

Pay special attention to the Notes.

6 Create Resources in AWS IoT

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Create AWS IoT Resources. Follow the steps outlined in these sections to provision resources for your device:

• Create an AWS IoT Policy (create IoT policy)
• Create a thing object (create AWS thing)

Pay special attention to the Notes.

7 Install the AWS Command Line Interface

To install the AWS CLI on your host machine, refer to the instructions at Installing the AWS CLI v2. Installing the CLI is needed to complete the instructions in this guide. Once you have installed AWS CLI, configure it as per the instructions in this online guide (configure quickstart). Set the appropriate values for Access key ID, Secret access key, and AWS Region. You can set Output format to "json" if you prefer.

8 Install AWS IoT Greengrass

unzip greengrass-nucleus-latest.zip -d GGCoreInstall
rm greengrass-nucleus-latest.zip

java -jar ./GGCoreInstall/lib/Greengrass.jar --version

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<the access key id for your account>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<the secret access key for your account>

sudo -E java -Droot="/greengrass/v2" -Dlog.store=FILE \
-jar ./GGCoreInstall/lib/Greengrass.jar \
--aws-region us-west-2 \
--thing-name thing-name \
--tes-role-name GreengrassV2TokenExchangeRole \
--tes-role-alias-name GreengrassCoreTokenExchangeRoleAlias \
--component-default-user ggc_user:ggc_group \
--provision true \
--setup-system-service true \
--deploy-dev-tools true

aws greengrassv2 list-effective-deployments --core-device-thing-name thing-name

/greengrass/v2/bin/greengrass-cli help

9 Create a Hello World component

In Greengrass v2, components can be created on the edge device and uploaded to the cloud, or vice versa.

10 Troubleshooting

Please refer to After Sales Information for technical support and more information about repairs and spare parts.