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Hi,

Thanks for your question.

If you are reading https://github.com/telefonicaid/iotagent-node-lib#overview, pre-provision and provision terms are used in places with the same purpose.

Nevertheless, IoT Agents framework contain a couple of interesting features that avoid repeating the device provisioning operation for devices with the same characteristics, i.e., multiple motes with temperature, moisture and pollution sensors deployed within a Smart City. In this case, you can use configurations (https://github.com/telefonicaid/iotagent-node-lib#configurations-and-device-provisioning-information) feature.

This functionality is clearly used by the lwm2m IoT Agent, where you can provide a configuration and devices matching it will be auto-provisioned the first time they connect to the agent.

BR,

Daniel on behalf of ATOS team