SIEMENS SIMATIC IPC System User Manual

: June 9, 2024
: SIEMENS

Table of Contents

SIEMENS SIMATIC IPC System
Overview
Hardware Description
Set up your Development Environment
Set up your hardware
Setup your AWS account and Permissions
Create Resources in AWS IoT
Install the AWS Command Line Interface
Install AWS IoT Greengrass
Create a Hello World component
Troubleshooting
References
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SIEMENS SIMATIC IPC System

SIEMENS-SIMATIC-IPC-System-product

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.

About AWS IoT Greengrass
To learn more about AWS IoT Greengrass, see how it works (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/how-it-works.html) and what´s new (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/greengrass-v2 -whats-new.html).

Hardware Description

DataSheet

Click on this link (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/pv/6AV7242-…..-….) to view the datasheet of IPC PX-39A.

Additional Hardware References
You will find more information in the operating manual (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109814324).

Set up your Development Environment

Tools Installation (IDEs, Toolchains, SDKs)

AWS IoT Greengrass supports various operating systems (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system- feature-support-matrix.html). Please refer to chapter 9 below for more information about installation of AWS IoT Greengrass.

Prerequisites
It´s recommended to use

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8 or greater
Java Development Kit (JDK) Amazon Corretto 11 (http://aws.amazon.com/corretto/) or OpenJDK 11 (https://openjdk.java.net/)
GNU C Library (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/) (glibc) version 2.25 or greater

Set up your hardware

Please refer to chapter 4 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109749498) of Operating Instructions for installing Windows on IPCs. For running AWS IoT Greengrass on Linux please download (https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/) and install Ubuntu on IPC PX-39A.

Setup your AWS account and Permissions

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Set up your AWS Account (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/setting-up.html). Follow the steps outlined in the sections below to create your account and a user and get started:

Sign up for an AWS account

(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/setting-up.html#aws- registration) and

Create a user and grant permissions (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/setting-up.html#create-iam-user)
Open the AWS IoT console (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/setting-up.html#iot-console-signin) Pay special attention to the Notes.

Create Resources in AWS IoT

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Create AWS IoT Resources (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-iot- resources.html). Follow the steps outlined in these sections to provision resources for your device:

Create an AWS IoT Policy (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-iot-resources.html#create-iot-policy)
Create a thing object (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/create-iot-resources.html#create-aws-thing) Pay special attention to the Notes.

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 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide /install-cliv2.html). 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 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure- quickstart.html#cli-configure-quickstart-config). Set the appropriate values for Access key ID, Secret access key, and AWS Region. You can set Output format to “json” if you prefer.

Install AWS IoT Greengrass

Download the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software
You can download the latest Version of AWS IoT Greengrass Core software from this location:https://d2s8p88vqu9w66.cloudfront.net/releases/greengrass- nucleus-latest.zip (https://d2s8p88vqu9w66.cloudfront.net/releases /greengrass-nucleus-latest.zip)

Install the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software
Unzip the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software to a folder on your device. Replace “GGCoreInstall” with the folder that you want to use unzip greengrass-nucleus- latest.zip -d GGCoreInstallrm greengrass-nucleus-latest.zip Verify the version of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software: java -jar ./GGCoreInstall/lib/Greengrass.jar –version You will see the Greengrass version displayed – similar to: AWS Greengrass v2.8.0

Provide your credentials
Run the following commands to provide the credentials to the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software.

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=

Run the installer
Run the installer as shown below. Modify the values as per your region, install directory and thing name. Use the –provision true option to have the installer set up the “thing” and required policies for you. If you prefer to configure Greengrass manually, see the online guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/manual- installation.html).

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

If all goes well, you will see the following output on the device console: Successfully configured Nucleus with provisioned resource details! Configured Nucleus to deploy aws.greengrass.Cli component Successfully set up Nucleus as a system service The local development tools (specified by the –deploy-dev- tools option) take some time to deploy. The following command can be used to check the status of this deployment: aws greengrassv2 list-effective- deployments –core-device-thing-name thing-name
When the status is SUCCEEDED, run the following command to verify that the Greengrass CLI is installed and runs on your device. Replace /greengrass/v2 with the path to the base folder on your device as needed. /greengrass/v2/bin /greengrass-cli help

Create a Hello World component

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

Create the component on your edge device
Follow the instructions online under the section To create a Hello World component (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/getting- started.html) to create, deploy, test, update and manage a simple component on your device.

Upload the Hello World component
Follow the instructions online at Upload your component (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/getting- started.html) to upload your component to the cloud, where it can be deployed to other devices as needed.

Troubleshooting

Please refer to After Sales Information (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109782922) for technical support and more information about repairs and spare parts.