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Bolt Iot

Monitors sensor data from your hardware in real time and triggers physical actuators based on cloud events or logic gates.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Bolt Iot integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Bolt Iot calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Bolt Iot data, across all 6 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Bolt Iot access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Bolt Iot, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Bolt Iot is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Bolt Iot.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Bolt Iot action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Bolt Iot, and when to use it.

Analog Read
Use this to pull the current analog value from a specific pin. Ideal for reading sensors that return a value between 0 and 1023.
Digital Write
Set a digital pin to high or low. Use this when you need to turn on a light, open a valve, or trigger a relay.
Check Online Status
Verify if a specific device is currently connected to the cloud. Use this before sending commands to avoid timeout errors.
Serial Read
Retrieve incoming serial data from a device. Use this after you have initialized the UART connection with serialbegin.
Serial Write
Send ASCII data to a device over UART. Use this to send configuration commands to attached hardware modules.
Serial Write and Read
Transmit data over UART and immediately capture the response. Use this for request response communication with serial peripherals.
Bolt IoT Digital Write
Tool to set a digital pin high or low on a specified bolt device. use when controlling actuators or leds via digital output.
Check Bolt device online status
Tool to check whether a specified bolt device is online. use when you need to verify device connectivity before sending commands (e.g., control signals). example: 'check if device bolt1234567 is online.'
Bolt IoT Serial Read
Tool to read incoming serial data from a bolt device. use when you've initialized uart with serialbegin and need to retrieve serial data.
Bolt IoT Serial Write
Tool to send serial data to a bolt device. use when you need to transmit ascii data over uart after initializing uart with serialbegin.
Bolt IoT Serial Write & Read
Tool to send serial data and read the response on a bolt device. use when you need to transmit ascii data over uart and capture its reply immediately.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven interacts with Bolt IoT through their cloud API which means there is a small amount of network latency between the command and the physical action. To manage this, the agent uses a polling and verification pattern. When you trigger a digital write, the agent does not just send the command and assume success. It can be configured to check the online status first and then verify the state change if the device supports feedback. For high speed requirements, we recommend using the cloud as a supervisory layer rather than a millisecond precision controller. Most industrial workflows find this latency acceptable because the network hop is usually under two hundred milliseconds.
The agent is designed to handle intermittent connectivity gracefully. If a command fails because the device is offline, Ceven can trigger a retry logic sequence. You can define how many times the agent should attempt to reconnect before it marks the task as failed and sends a notification to your team. Because we use the Check Online Status tool, the agent can proactively skip commands to offline devices to prevent workflow queues from backing up. This ensures that your entire automation does not freeze just because one sensor in a remote location lost its wifi connection.
Yes, Bolt IoT imposes specific API rate limits on their cloud endpoints to ensure platform stability. If your workflow attempts to perform analog reads every single second across dozens of devices, you may encounter a 429 too many requests error. To prevent this, Ceven implements an internal queuing system that paces requests according to Bolt IoT limits. We recommend using a reasonable polling interval for sensor data. If you need higher frequency data capture, it is better to handle the logic on the device itself and have the device push alerts to the cloud rather than having the agent pull data constantly.
Absolutely. The agent can iterate through a list of device IDs and perform actions on each one sequentially or in parallel. For example, you can create a workflow that checks the online status of ten different devices and only sends a digital write command to those that are active. This is particularly useful for managing large deployments of hardware across different physical locations. You simply provide the device IDs in your prompt or store them in a database that the agent can access, and Ceven handles the individual API calls for each single piece of hardware.
Ceven uses secure API tokens to authenticate with the Bolt IoT cloud. Your tokens are encrypted at rest and are never exposed to the end user or the underlying large language model during the execution of a workflow. The agent only sends the necessary parameters to the Bolt IoT API to perform the requested action. Since all communication happens over HTTPS, the data in transit is protected. You can revoke the API token at any time from your Bolt IoT dashboard, which immediately kills all active connections and prevents the agent from interacting with your hardware until a new token is provided.
Yes, that is one of the strongest features of the integration. When the agent uses the Serial Read tool, it receives the raw ASCII string from the device. You can then instruct the agent to parse this string based on a specific format. For instance, if your device sends a string like TEMP:22C, the agent can extract the number 22 and use it as a variable in the next step of the workflow. This allows you to use a wide variety of third party sensors that communicate over UART without needing to write a custom cloud parser for every single hardware component.
The limit is determined by the physical hardware of your Bolt IoT device and the API specifications, not by Ceven. As long as the Bolt IoT API allows you to address a specific analog or digital pin, Ceven can send the command. Most Bolt devices have a set number of digital and analog pins available for user projects. The agent simply passes the pin number you specify in your prompt to the API. If you try to write to a pin that does not exist on that specific hardware version, the Bolt IoT API will return an error which the agent will then report back to you.
No, that is the primary benefit of using Ceven with Bolt IoT. All the logic lives in the Ceven cloud and communicates directly with the Bolt IoT cloud. Once you have set up a trigger, such as a schedule or a webhook from another app, the workflow runs independently of your local machine. Your Bolt IoT device just needs to be powered on and connected to the internet. This allows you to build truly autonomous systems that monitor and control your hardware twenty four hours a day without needing any local server or open laptop to maintain the connection.

Alternatives to Bolt Iot

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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