Entities

In the technical documentation section, we will explain the key concepts of the Thingspod platform, its applications, and how to work with each tool separately. First, to start working professionally with the platform, you need to know the key concepts of the platform or entities.

 

Entities

 

Entities developed on the Thingspod platform include the following:

• Tenants: A tenant is an independent entity that can be an individual or an organization that owns devices and assets. Each tenant may have several users, customers, devices, and assets.
• Customers: A customer is an individual or an independent organization and a subset of a tenant that uses the devices and assets of the tenant. The customer can have several users, devices, and assets.
• Users: Users are a subset of the tenant or customer. They can browse dashboards and manage entities.
• Devices: Devices are IoT entities that may produce telemetry data and handle RPC commands. For example, sensors, actuators, and switches.
• Assets: Assets are a set of interconnected IoT entities including devices and other assets. For example, factories, farms, and vehicles.
• Entity Views: an entity View shares only part of the device or asset data to the customers.
• Alarms: Events that detect the status of your assets, devices, or other entities and activate a notification for you.
• Dashboards: Dashboards will display IoT data graphically, and also can control devices through a user interface.
• Rule Chains: Rule nodes are processing units for incoming messages. The rule chains show the data processing workflow using these nodes.