Virtual BluFi Setup

This guide will help you how to create virtual BluFI setup in Bluzone and provision BluFl to your project .

For virtual BluFI provision setup ,you need to ask HID IoT sale team to pre provision BluFI to your project at the time of purchase order.

Once the BluFI are provision to your project then use "Virtual Device" tab in Bluzone console to create virtual devices.

1. General Setup

The following method you can use to create virtual BluFI in Bluzone.

Creating Virtual Device One-by-One
Creating Virtual Devices via Bulk Upload

Creating Virtual Devices One-by-One

Step 1 : Open the URL : https://bluzone.io/console/#/login and login to your Bluzone project .

Step 2 : Click on Virtual Devices .

Step 3 : Click Create

Step 4 : Virtual Device screen will open and provide the following information.

Select the Location
Type the Name Virtual Device
Select and drag the Virtual Device to the desired location on the map. Alternatively, you can also type in the Latitude and Longitude.
Default Device Type : BluFI
Select the Power Source Type : Unknown,AC or DC
Select Template from the dropdown.
Press Create or Create and Close .A pop up message will appear at bottom of the screen confirming that virtual device is created .

i) Click Create will create the Virtual BluFi and then reset the screen to add another device.

· ii) Click Create and Close will create the Virtual BluFi and then take you to the main page where you can view all the virtual devices.

iii) Click Cancel to return to the list view.

Step 5 :Click “ Virtual Devices “ tab and then select “ Viewer “

Step 5 :Select BluFI from the list and drag the Virtual Device to the desired location on the map.

Creating Virtual Devices via Bulk Upload

Step 1 : Open the URL : https://bluzone.io/console/#/login and login to your Bluzone project .

Step 2 : Click on Virtual Devices .

Step 3 :Click on Bulk Upload

Step 3 :Select Location ,Select Template ,power source type : unknown if different type of BluFIs are in the project and select the CSV file and Press Upload files .You will get the message Success Bulk upload job finished successfully.