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How to Get Started with Beacon Tower

This guide provides a recommended approach for getting started with Beacon Tower. Familiarize yourself with the concept guides before following these steps.

Device Connectivity​

Establish connectivity with your first device.

  1. Create a minimal model with one or two telemetry points
  2. Create an asset based on the model
  3. Test device connectivity and that telemetry is received
  4. Verify telemetry is received in Beacon Tower
  5. Expand the model with all telemetry points, properties, and commands
  6. Migrate existing assets to the new model version
  7. Iterate until you are happy with the asset and its data

See Models, Assets, and Providers for details.

Visualization​

Create dashboards and monitoring for your devices.

  1. Create dashboards for your asset that show important data. This is usually an iterative process.
  2. Create alarm definitions for critical conditions
  3. Decide what should be sent as notifications

See Dashboards and Alarms and Notifications for details.

Organization Setup​

Plan and create your organization structure.

  1. Design your organization hierarchy
  2. Create organization templates for common types (e.g., "Standard Customer", "Reseller")
  3. Configure template privileges, theme, and license settings
  4. Create customer organizations from templates
  5. Configure themes for branding if needed
  6. Set up license agreements if required

See Organizations and License Agreements for details.

Onboarding​

Plan how devices and customers will be onboarded to your platform.

  1. Create a routing target pointing to your provider (MQTT broker + provider API)
  2. Create enrollment groups with authentication settings and response templates
  3. Generate and distribute bootstrap keys to devices during manufacturing
  4. Register devices — individually or via bulk import (up to 10,000 per batch)
  5. Devices self-configure on first boot by calling the onboarding service with their bootstrap key
  6. Provision devices with the provider to activate connectivity

Plan your key rotation strategy early — the two-key model supports zero-downtime rotation.

See Device Onboarding for the full setup walkthrough.

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