# ThingPark Solution Overview
The ThingPark X IoT Flow module aims at interconnecting ThingPark Wireless sensor event sources and command sinks (or other bidirectional data endpoints) with IoT cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS or MQTT) or ThingPark X IoT Core.
As depicted below, ThingPark Wireless forwards uplinks messages to TP X IoT Flow that then deliver those messages to the selected IoT Cloud platform, through the available connections implementing the proper connector type.
# Key Concepts
The following key concepts are defined in ThingPark X IoT Flow.
Connector
TP X IoT Flow connectors is a profile that will determine the communication parameters toward the IoT Cloud platform.
Amongst the available connectors currently available you will find :
- AWS IoT
- Azure IoT Hub
- ThingWorx
- IBM Watson IoT
- MQTT
Connection
A connection is a specific instance of a Connector for which you define specific parameters to establish a communication stream with the selected IoT cloud platform.
# IoT Flow
An IoT Flow is the object that will create an association between a sensor and an IoT cloud platform.
This association is done by matching sensors traffic to a specific Connection using tags available as metadata in uplink/downlink messages.
IoT Flow Rest API
The IoT Flow REST API is a set of webservice allowing to create and configure the IoT Flows.
Configuration Steps
In order to establish a bi-directional communication between an LPWAN connected sensor and a compatible IoT cloud platform using TP X IoT Flow, you need to complete the following steps:
This flow is described in the subsequent sections of this document.
- To create your first IoT Flow, get started here Getting Started.