In order to upload collected data to ThingsBoard platform, a simple North plugin was developed. To this end, the Microsoft Azure plugin was used as reference. The ThingsBoard South plugin is minimalist and '''unfit for a real-world production environment'''. Nevertheless, it was enough to perform the basic tests described in this TN. Before testing this new plugin, the mosquitto-clients package was installed as the plugin invokes the <code>mosquitto_pub</code> command line tool.

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