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 North plugin is minimalist and '''unfit for a real-world production environment'''. Nevertheless, it was enough to perform the basic tests described in this TNdocument. Before testing this new plugin, the <code>mosquitto-clients </code> package was installed as the plugin invokes the <code>mosquitto_pub</code> command line tool.

Similarly to what we did in [[MISC-TN-024: Automated test equipment (ATE) monitoring with SBCSPG gateway and ThingsBoard IoT platform|''MISC-TN-024'']], we created a simple dashboard to visualize collected data on cloud side in real-time on cloud side collected data as shown in the following example.