Building an asset registry to store asset information

In Chapter 7, we highlighted the importance of the asset registry and its role within the context of the IIoT. The asset registry can maintain a lot of information, including the class of the model (the asset model) of our equipment (the asset instance), the ID of the equipment and its properties, the components of the equipment, the measures we must 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, ACME: Enterprise manages SydneyPlant. This, in turn, hosts a subsystem, which includes CT001:

ACME:Enterprise -> SydneyPlant:Plant -> Train1:Segment -> CT001:Pump

CT001 is a pump, which we can use to connect several sensors to monitor – for instance, the temperature:

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