Exploring assets

In Amazon IoT SiteWise, an asset represents a device, a process, or a piece of equipment. You can use Amazon IoT SiteWise Monitor to explore and visualize the properties and alarms for your assets. Each project in Amazon IoT SiteWise Monitor is associated with a set of assets by the portal administrator. If you're a portal administrator, you can see all of the assets in the portal. If you're a project owner or a project viewer, you can see only the assets that are associated with the projects for which you are an owner or a viewer.

Assets can have different properties. Some properties don't change over time, such as the asset's location, model, serial number, and so on. Other properties have a series of values that are produced over time. Properties can update at different rates. You might have a temperature sensor that updates every second, and a product quality metric that updates every hour.

Assets can also have alarms. Alarms detect when properties are outside their operating ranges, so that you and your team can address issues with your equipment and processes. For example, you might have an alarm that detects when the temperature in a boiler exceeds its maximum temperature.

You can perform the following asset-related tasks.