AWP Toolkit Reference Guide for C Developers

This manual is a reference guide for software developers who are using the Axeda Wireless Protocol C source library to create asset-side agents to communicate wirelessly. The AWP C source library contains code for a sample agent as well as the protocol, portable to Windows and UNIX/Linux and other embedded systems.

The complete AWP toolkit, including the C source itself and a technical reference to the protocol, can be downloaded from here.

You can refer to the Asset Communication Overview for related resources.  There's also a posting on our blog explaining the hardware requirements for embedding the C source library in your device

Audience
This manual is intended as a reference for software developers when creating asset-side agent applications that connect wireless assets using the AWP protocol to Axeda Platform. 

Prerequisites
Using the AWP Toolkit requires an understanding of ANSI C and the asset that will communicate with the Axeda® Platform via the AWP Toolkit agent. You must have experience with the operating system on which the AWP agent will run as well as the development tools for creating loadable libraries. 

Contents
This guide contains the following chapters and appendices:

• Chapter 1, "Using This Guide", describes what information is contained in this manual.
• Chapter 2, "Introduction", presents an overview of the AWP Toolkit and explains how it can be used to connect your wireless assets to Axeda Platform.
• Chapter 3, "Using the Toolkit", provides general instructions for using the APIs of this Toolkit.
• Chapter 4, "AWP Toolkit Operations", explains how your AWP agent application can use the APIs of this Toolkit.
• Chapter 5, "Toolkit Reference", provides high level descriptions of some of the AWP Toolkit APIs.