Amount of data being transferred over wifi

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Does Losant keep a count of amount of data being transferred through MQTT by device?

If so how do I access this info by device?

I have two IOT devices deployed at the same location that required me to use a 4G to WiFi router. I just looked at the bill for data transfer and it over 500 megabytes for a one month period. I was told by our programmer that we should only use a megabyte or so per month per device.

Is there a white paper on data transfer from losant?

I know that Losant does not dictate the amount of data being transferred I’m just hoping Losant has some tools to help understand and manage data transfer. For instance, how would I find out the amount of data being sent back and forth for the various communications that my device does with losant?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

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Hi @Dave_Blaylock !

There’s a great feature request in here to increase visibility of the data going to and from devices. I’ll file a feature request and see what we can do.

In the meantime, what are the names of the two devices in question? If you’d prefer, you can DM them to me.

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The two devices are called

Latus Pro 34th Floor
Latus Pro 33rd Floor

Thank you

Dave Blaylock

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We do have a Device: Payload Counts (device.payloadCounts) API endpoint that returns the payload count (messages) for a given device over a specified period. You can make an API request to that endpoint or use a Losant API Node to return this data in a workflow. While this won’t give you the amount of data that’s been transmitted, it might help you determine if more messages are being received from a particular device than expected.

Unfortunately, we don’t have any data usage information for devices. As I mentioned, we’ve filed a feature request to make such information available in the future. I’ll return to this thread with any updates - thanks for bringing this to our attention!