This example shows how Cepheus-CEP and Cepheus-Broker interact with each other.

It is based on the Rooms and Floors example. But this time, temperature data will not be sent directly to the Cepheus-CEP, but will transit though the Cepheus-Broker.

Architecture

In this example, the NGSI sensors (simulated by the run.sh script) will send temperature data to the Cepheus-Broker. The Cepheus-CEP will subscribe to the broker for this data and therefore be notified when new data is received.

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This is illustrated in the following figure:

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All the grayed parts are part of the reference architecture and are not used in this example.

Configuring the CEP

The configuration is similar to the first example, but we now add the providers in the in section. This will tell the CEP to subscribe for the Room Context Entity to one or more Context Providers (here the Cepheus-CEP instance).

"in": [
    {
        "id":"Room.*",     # Pattern is used to subscribe to provider to all Room1, Room2, ..., RoomN
        "type":"Room",     # The type to subscribe
        "isPattern":true,  # Pattern match the id
        "providers":[ "http://localhost:8081" ],  # The URL of the source of the input
        "attributes":[
            { "name":"temperature", "type":"double" },
            { "name":"floor", "type":"string" }
        ]
    }
]

The out section is also similar to the first example but we add a brokers section to send the update for this Context Entity to the Cepheus-Broker.

"out":[
    {
        "id":"Floor1",
        "type":"Floor",
        "attributes":[
            { "name":"temperature", "type":"double" }
        ],
        "brokers": [
            { "url":"http://localhost:8081" }
        ]
    }
]

The config.json has the complete configuration setup.

In this configuration, the time of the output has been lowered to 10 seconds to make the average show up quickly in the logs.

Testing the setup

In a first terminal, launch Cepheus-Broker:

cd cepheus-broker
mvn spring-boot:run --remote.url=""

Default configuration should launch it on port :8081 on your machine.

Then in a second terminal, launch Cepheus-CEP:

cd cepheus-cep
mvn spring-boot:run

Default configuration should launch it on port :8080 on your machine.

Now in another terminal, trigger the run.sh script:

cd doc/examples/3_CepAndBroker
sh run.sh

The script first sends the config.json file to Cepheus-CEP.

Cepheus-CEP sends a subscribeContext request in order to receive notifications from the Cepheus-Broker for the Room Context Entity.

Then the script sending temperatures updates to Cepheus-Broker that sends notifications to Cepheus-CEP.

Go back to the terminal where you launched first the LB then after the CEP. You should see tempertures as "EventIn" beeing logged in CEP logs.

After a few seconds, the "EventOut" logs will show the CEP triggering the average temperature for each floor.

Next step

You must now learn how to send the EventOut updates to a remote NGSI broker.