Asset Relations

Asset Hierarchy

Asset relation defines the connection between two Assets. The relation has an arbitrary type: Contains, Manages, Supports, etc. The relation is also directional. You may treat IIoTNext Platform relations as a Has-a relationship from object-oriented programming.

Relations help to model physical world objects in IIoTNext Platform. The easiest way to understand them is by using the example. Let’s assume we want to build an application that collects data from soil moisture and temperature sensors, visualize this data on the dashboard, detect issues, raise alarms and control the irrigation. Let’s also assume we want to support multiple fields with hundreds of sensors. Fields may be also grouped into the Geo regions.

The following diagram explains how those entities are configured and stored in IIoTNext Platform:

See “add and delete assets” and “manage asset relations” to learn how to configure these entities via Administration UI. You may also use REST PI to create entities and relations programmatically.