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Securely access FIN from anywhere in the world!
Adaptive multi-factor authentication.
Everything’s encrypted.
Log in only once!
Log into remote sites using your Edge2Cloud user account.
Organization, user and device management.
Build out your portfolio of buildings to manage.
Edge2Cloud is J2’s first Cloud product and is offering select customers the chance to try out their services through the preview programme…
Preview is a time-limited early access programme for Edge2Cloud.
Preview is a chance for select customers to try out Edge2Cloud services and provide feedback.
There’s no limit to the number of devices that can be registered for Edge2Cloud.
The preview Cloud environment will be stopped end of July 2020.
All user and device related data will be removed when the preview is stopped.
When the Cloud environment is stopped, FIN will still function as expected! Remote access will just stop working.
At this point customers will be expected to switch over to the released product environment.
No migration of data will be made between preview and production.
All devices will have to be re-registered with Edge2Cloud once preview has been stopped. Customers are expected to switch to production.
All support for Edge2Cloud is provided through J2’s existing support channels.
Edge2Cloud remote access will be available to all customers who are up to date with their maintenance for FIN.
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Please download and install the version latest released version of the FIN framework.
From your J2 support person, you’ll also receive a file called ‘finEdge2CloudPreview
finEdge2CloudPreview.zip’.zipThis file contains all the additional files required to run Edge2Cloud.
At various points you may receive some updates you may need to install in order to continue using Edge2Cloud.
Unzip the files over the top of your FIN installation.
For example, unzip the file over `C
C:\Program Files (x86)\FIN Framework\FIN Framework 5.0.3.2726`2726
Restart the FIN service.
User registration
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Once you’re registered, you’ll have administrator access to all the users and devices (a.k.a. FIN installs) for your organization.
Click on your user in the top right-hand corner of the portal.
This shows a list of the organizations you’re currently a member of
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Click on your organization to view its page…
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This page shows all the user and device information for your organization.
A few notes about organizations…
Organizations are how users and devices are grouped together.
A device (a.k.a. a registered FIN instance) can only belong to one organization.
Note your FIN instance doesn’t appear in Edge2Cloud yet because it’s not yet registered.
A user can only see the devices in an organization they’re a member of if they have the device operator/admin role.
Users who are no device operators/admins can also see devices if they’re a member of an access group.
As you’re a user admin, you can view all users in your organization and invite new users.
Note your user account under users. This is the identity you’ve used to log onto Edge2Cloud. Click on your user account to see more information about yourself…
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Note your user roles in the organization. Click edit to see a list…
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The user roles define what you can do in an organization…
Device Manager: register new devices in an organization.
Device Operator: view all devices in an organization.
Device Admin: view, edit and delete devices in an organzation.
Remote Op, Admin, and Super User: the remote FIN role used when remotely access FIN using Edge2Cloud.
User Operator: view all users in an organization.
User Admin: view, add, edit and delete users in an
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organization.
Click cancel and head back to your organization’s page.
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Log into FIN locally as a super user.superuser
Only super users superusers can register with the Cloud.
Create a new project in FIN.
By default, the demo project can’t be registered with Edge2Cloud.
Create some sites in FIN.
Fill out all the geographical information for the site.
Remember to add the site’s latitude and longitude so it appears on the map in the Edge2Cloud portal.
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Clicking on ‘Register to Cloud’ to be taken to the Edge2Cloud device registration website. Alternatively, you can click on ‘Registration QR Code' you can scan using your cell phone.
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Select your organization to register the device under.
Note that if you’re a Device Manager in multiple organizationorganizations, the drop-down box will have multiple choices.
Click the ‘Register’ button.
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Note browser bar…
The connection is secure.
The SSL certificate is managed for you by Edge2Cloud.
The URL is unique for the device.
You can bookmark it as a link for that unique device if you want too.
You didn’t get asked to log in again.
You’re logged on remotely to FIN using your Edge2Cloud user.
It’s all single sign-on.
You can use your Cloud log in to remotely access every single site using Edge2Cloud.
The browser will automatically redirect you to another page after about 5 minutes of user inactivity.
One hour after being redirected, you’ll then be automatically logged out of Edge2Cloud.
Devices, projects, and sites
Once a device is registered with Edge2Cloud, all of its project and site information is uploaded. Any changes to the project and site information will be automatically uploaded in the future.
Remember that FIN uses projects and sites as the primary way of organizing your building’s data!
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On the site bar you can click devices, projects or sites. Each enable you to easily navigate all of your data.
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Go to your organization main page and click the ‘New’ button under users…
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Fill out your new user’s information.
Ensure the phone number has the international dialling code (+1 for USA).
Ensure the email is correct.
Tip: if you’re using your Google mail, you can reuse your Google mail by adding a plus after your user name. For example, garethj+whatevernamegoeshere@j2inn.com.
Tick the Remote Op role. Leave all the others blank.
Access to devices will be granted through an Access group.
Click ‘OK’ to create the new user.
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