The most useful setup for getting started with mioty is a mioty Base Station and a few End Points. Many manufacturers also offer development or demo kits that simplify the initial setup. These kits typically include pre-configured End Points and a backend connection, so you can start receiving data without having to register and configure every component yourself.

For an especially simple development setup, you can use a mioty Base Station with the Service Center and Application Center running directly on the Base Station hardware. This allows you to connect to the system via MQTT and consume decoded mioty payloads directly in JSON format.

Keep in mind, however, that this is not representative of how most commercial mioty deployments are architected. In production systems, the mioty Service Center and Application Center will typically run remotely on a server or in the cloud, while the Base Station acts primarily as the radio interface.

Development gateways such as the AVA1 may also have different RF performance and sensitivity characteristics from commercial-grade mioty Base Stations. They are therefore useful for development and experimentation, but should not be used for benchmarking mioty radio performance.