Assets

Assets are active components that hold value about a measure, either in physical or virtual space.
Most important physical assets are sensors and actuators.

Fields

Kind

There are 3 supported asset kinds:

• Sensor provide you with environment data. Examples are temperature or light
• Actuator allow other systems to reach out and act on the world. Examples are motor or LED
• Virtual asset has no link to the physical device, but holds higher-value knowledge, usually calculated as a result of on-cloud processing. Examples are health or consumption

Name

Name uniquely identifies the asset within it’s device. Once you define it, you can’t change it.
An asset with the same name can exist on two different devices. For example if you have 5 weather station devices, they might all have their own temperature assets.

Profile

The profile field describes the type of data being measured by the asset. Both simple types like integer as well as more complex and custom object data types are possible. Read more about profiles.

Example

When modelling a weather station, one of the things you might want to represent measured temperature as a numeric value.
To do this, you will need to create a sensor called temperature, using the number profile as {"type": "number", "unit": "°C"} - and update values with asset states such as 23.1°C or 18°C.