Cloud Device Adapters

Fusion Connect cloud device adapters are part of Fusion Connect’s device communication layer, and each implement a combination of a networking protocol and data format required to communicate with a group of devices from a manufacturer or that use a device communication standard.

Fusion Connect refers to these groups as device types. A device adapter decodes and normalizes data from one of these device types, and establishes the message flow pattern used by Fusion Connect’s internal components.

There are three types of device adapters:

• Abstract adapters, defined by Fusion Connect, interpret a format of JSON-encoded data sent over common communication protocols.
• Standard adapters process data from a specific device type or a standard communication protocol.
• Customer-specific adapters decode messages from a single customer’s unique type of devices.

The library of different device types is listed in several locations on the Fusion Connect platform, and each cloud adapter appears on this list using the following naming convention:

network protocol :: data format protocol