Devices

A device is an electronic equipment, a data source, or a third-party system integration managed by Iotellect. The platform works with different types of devices using Device Drivers. Each driver knows how to interact with smart assets or software systems using a certain communication protocol.

Iotellect represents devices as Contexts (also known as device contexts, or device accounts) of the Unified Data Model, allowing them to interact with other pieces of your app. Each device context exposes variables (a.k.a. properties or settings), functions (a.k.a. operations or methods) and events (a.k.a. notifications or messages) supported by the device.

Drivers create normalized representation of devices. This normalization process involves several steps:

• Creation of one Device Context per every device that works with Iotellect.

• Conversion of the device's internal settings and configuration options into context Variables (Properties).

• Conversion of control operations supported by the device into context Functions and corresponding Actions helping to execute these functions interactively (see Call Function actions).

• Conversion of asynchronous notifications generated by the device into context Events.

All these operations help to provide unified methods of device configuration, control, and monitoring within the Iotellect infrastructure. When a device is represented as a context with variables, functions, and events, you can use all of Iotellect's management and monitoring features (Alerts, Reports, Widgets, etc.) to work with it.

Two contexts are used to administer devices: One is the general Devices context that acts as a container of all devices of a single user. The other is the Device context, which corresponds to a single device.

Creating a Widget to Monitor a Device Monitoring Device Parameters Using a Chart Building a Device Status Report Adding Custom Properties Scheduling Device Downtime

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