Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Building an asset registry to store asset information

In Chapter 7, Developing Industrial IoT and Architecture, we highlighted the importance of the asset registry and its role within the context of the I-IoT. The asset registry can maintain a lot of information, including the class of the model of our equipment, the ID of the equipment and its properties, the components of the equipment, the measures we have to monitor, the thresholds and functional parameters of our measures, and the hierarchy of our fleet. A typical hierarchy of our assets might look as follows:

Asset Instance ID:Asset Class ID -> Asset Instance Child ID:Asset Class ID

In the following example, the ACME: Enterprise manages SydneyPlant. This in turn hosts a subsystem, ...