Environments
MVP Warning!
This is a feature implementation is an MVP and will be changed in an upcoming PR.
| Environment | Description |
|---|---|
| It’s possible to omit this value | |
| air | If a sensor is placed within air |
| indoors | Indoor sensor |
| lifebuoy | Special case, if a presence sensor is used to detect presence of a lifebuoy |
| soil | for sensors placed in soil |
| water | sensors placed in water |
Configure
Available environments are configured in a iot-device-mgmt configuration file. To connect a sensor to an environment, add a supported value in the where column of the device.csv file as described here
Usages
The environment value is added to the output from iot-core and could be used be other services.
One service that uses the environment value is iot-transform-fiware. The measurement type in combination with environment is used to decide which Smart Data Model to create or update.