Choosing a gateway platform
Choose an Amazon IoT SiteWise gateway platform that best suits your industrial operation. You can configure a gateway on any platform that can run Amazon IoT Greengrass. All gateway devices must meet the following requirements:
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Supports Amazon IoT Greengrass Core software v1.10.2 or later. For more information, see Supported platforms and requirements in the Amazon IoT Greengrass Version 1 Developer Guide.
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Has at least 1 GB of RAM.
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Has at least 10 GB of free disk space.
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Supports a Java 8 virtual machine (JVM).
Choose a gateway with sufficient disk, networking, and compute capacity for your workload.
The disk space required for caching data for intermittent internet connectivity depends on the following factors:
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Number of data streams uploaded
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Data points per data stream per second
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Size of each data point
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Communication speeds
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Expected network downtime
The compute capacity required to poll and upload data depends on the following factors:
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Number of data streams uploaded
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Data points per data stream per second