Industrial Internet Application Development

The Asset service in detail

The Asset service by GE's Predix is designed to assist developers in creating, storing, and updating data for asset models, while enabling consumers to retrieve it.

An asset model consists of domain objects (for instance, classifications and assets) described in JSON. The objects are actually random sets of name-value pairs with a unique Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), indicating an appropriate asset instance stored in a graph database.

In the next subsection, we will provide an example of a classification object (Countries) to illustrate its JSON representation in an asset model.