Relevant aspects of devices and assets covered by RoboFuse are:
- Inventory
- Assets as Devices
- Other Assets (i.e. software agents)
Inventory attached concepts:
- Measurements – data acquired are stored in the “datastore”
- Events
- Alarms
- Operations
- Audit Logs
The inventory stores all master data related to assets / devices, their configuration and their connections. It also contains all related assets (like vehicles, machines, buildings) and their structure.
Measurements contain numerical data produced by sensors (like temperature readings) or calculated data based on information from devices (service availability of a device).
Events contain other real-time information from the sensor network, such as the triggering of a door sensor. Events can also be alarms. User or operator of the system must take action to resolve the alarm (like a power outage). In addition, security-related events are shown as audit logs.
Operations relate to data that is sent to devices for execution or processing, such as switching a relay in a power meter or sending a credit to a vending machine.
RoboFuse IoT uses standardized representation of common devices and sensors as well as concepts for flexibly extending and modifying this representation.
As a result, Internet of Things applications can be written independently from connected devices and underlying sensor networks, customized for specific cases in different web configurations or different devices from manufacturers.