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Actuator - AWS IoT FleetWise

Actuator

A signal that represents a vehicle device such as the engine, heater, and door locks. Data from an actuator reports the state of a certain vehicle device.

Note

Updating actuator data can change the state of a device. For example, you can turn on or off the heater by updating its actuator data.

Contents

dataType

The specified data type of the actuator.

Type: String

Valid Values: INT8 | UINT8 | INT16 | UINT16 | INT32 | UINT32 | INT64 | UINT64 | BOOLEAN | FLOAT | DOUBLE | STRING | UNIX_TIMESTAMP | INT8_ARRAY | UINT8_ARRAY | INT16_ARRAY | UINT16_ARRAY | INT32_ARRAY | UINT32_ARRAY | INT64_ARRAY | UINT64_ARRAY | BOOLEAN_ARRAY | FLOAT_ARRAY | DOUBLE_ARRAY | STRING_ARRAY | UNIX_TIMESTAMP_ARRAY | UNKNOWN | STRUCT | STRUCT_ARRAY

Required: Yes

fullyQualifiedName

The fully qualified name of the actuator. For example, the fully qualified name of an actuator might be Vehicle.Front.Left.Door.Lock.

Type: String

Required: Yes

allowedValues

A list of possible values an actuator can take.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

assignedValue

This member has been deprecated.

A specified value for the actuator.

Type: String

Required: No

comment

A comment in addition to the description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: No

deprecationMessage

The deprecation message for the node or the branch that was moved or deleted.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: No

description

A brief description of the actuator.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: No

max

The specified possible maximum value of an actuator.

Type: Double

Required: No

min

The specified possible minimum value of an actuator.

Type: Double

Required: No

structFullyQualifiedName

The fully qualified name of the struct node for the actuator if the data type of the actuator is Struct or StructArray. For example, the struct fully qualified name of an actuator might be Vehicle.Door.LockStruct.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 150.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9_.]+

Required: No

unit

The scientific unit for the actuator.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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