Embed Location on Things

[fsiviero]

Hello

I've not found this information anywhere but apart from setting a property of the type Location in a Thing, is there any location information already embed into a Thing by default, if that Thing had some sort of GPS sensor? If so how would you go about getting to it via the API?

Thank you in advance

[ankigupta · Accepted solution]

Hi Francisco Siviero​,

Yes, Location will have to be set as a Property in a Thing. You can create your own Thing template which contain a location property. Then all the things created from that Thing template will inherit the location property.

For the second part of the question; which SDK are you using? Location property can be sent to ThingWorx similar to other properties. Please check PTC Jave SDK Guide for more details.

I hope it helps.

[fsiviero]

Hello Ankit

If there needs to be a property set for the Thing itself than I know where to get it Thank you for your answer, it definitely helped.