Bevywise IoT Simulator Installation

In this article we will learn about Bevywise IoT Simulator Installation. As there is no step-by-step guide for installing Bevywise IoT Simulator, I think this guide will help people to get started with it.

Prerequisite(s):

Download and install Bevywise IoT Simulator on your PC or laptop

Setup and Configuration:

Let’s assume Bevywise iot simulator’s installation root folder as

The above path will be referenced as <ROOT_PATH> in the rest of the tutorial

1) First place the license.dat file at the following location:

Note: You can obtain the license by directly contacting the Bevywise team

Note: If you are using a trial version then you can skip this step

2) Download and install MYSQL for windows from the following link:

Note: Download mysql-installer-community-8.0.18.0.msi whose size is approximately at least 415MB

3) Download the latest zipped version of wget from the following link:

Note: After downloading extract the zip to any location

4) Copy the location of wget.exe and add it to the MS Window’s PATH environment variable

Note: For clear instructions on how to add the location to PATH variable, refer this page and scroll to the end of the page

5) Download and install Python 2.7 from the following link:

Note: Don’t change the default location of installation while you are installing Python 2.7

Note: Also select “Add Python 2.7 to the PATH” option while installing

6) Open db.conf file at the location <ROOT_PATH>\conf\ and do the following:

Take care that DB_SERVER is set to MYSQL as follows:

Take care that MYSQL_PASSWORD is set to the password of MySQL root user which you will give while installing MySQL software which should be as follows:

Note: In my case it was 123456; Replace it with your MySQL password

Save the file and close it

7) Open command prompt and navigate to <ROOT_PATH>\bin\ and type the following:

When you hit enter, the above batch file will download the remaining necessary software from Internet

Running Bevywise IoT Simulator:

1) Open command prompt and navigate to <ROOT_PATH>\bin\ and type the following:

The above batch file will create a MQTT Broker and listen for connections

If runbroker.bat executes successfully you should be able to see the following messages in the command prompt:

Note: Don’t close the command prompt; Just minimize it

2) Open another command prompt and navigate to <ROOT_PATH>\bin\ and type the following:

The above batch file will run the IoT simulator and open a web page in the browser automatically with the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1:9000/setnetwork?network=HEALTH_CARE

In the command prompot you will see the following messages:

3) To close the simulator do the following:

– Close the webpage
– Close the command prompts

That’s it! You have successfully configured and executed Bevywise IoT Simulator

For working with the simulator, you can use the following resources:

• https://www.bevywise.com/iot-simulator/help-document/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjWiqCUco-0zcySN1QsgxX1PvnOdH_A3j

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Suryateja Pericherla

Suryateja Pericherla, at present is a Research Scholar (full-time Ph.D.) in the Dept. of Computer Science & Systems Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Previously worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE at Vishnu Institute of Technology, India.

He has 11+ years of teaching experience and is an individual researcher whose research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Security, Network Security and Blockchain.

He is a member of professional societies like IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISCA. He published several research papers which are indexed by SCIE, WoS, Scopus, Springer and others.