Devices

A device is a single piece of monitored equipment — a sensor, a gateway, a motor, a chiller. The Devices screen (in the Device Management section of the sidebar) is where you find, add, and manage them.

View your devices

Open Devices to see the device list. You can switch how it’s laid out and filter to just the devices you care about:

• Views (table / cards / grouped) — choose a table, a card grid, or devices grouped by location.
• Saved view tabs — quickly filter to All, Online, Offline, Unhealthy, Discovered, or Disabled devices.

Select a device to open its detail screen.

Add a device

1. On the Devices screen, select Add device.
2. On the Create Device form, fill in the Basic Information:
   • Name (required) — what you’ll recognize the device by.
   • Enabled — leave on so the device is actively monitored.
   • Category — pick the kind of equipment (sensor, motor, HVAC, pump, and so on). This helps the platform choose sensible defaults.
   • Commissioned Date — when the device went into service.
3. Optionally set Analysis Settings — an Analysis Interval (minutes) (how often the AI agent looks at this device; minimum 5 minutes) and a Sensor Data Window (minutes) (how far back to read its sensor data).
4. Under Location, set a Known Location and/or pick a Location.
5. Add any Hardware Identifiers (a hardware ID plus its type) and Tags. Use Add Hardware ID and the tag Add button to add more than one.
6. Select Create device.

Note

The Parent Device ID field links a device to its parent or gateway. Leave it blank unless this device reports through another device.

Claim a discovered device

When equipment starts reporting that the platform hasn’t seen before, it shows up as Discovered. If discovered devices are waiting for attention, a Review & name button appears at the top of the Devices screen with a count. Select it to review each discovered device, give it a proper name, and confirm it into your fleet.

Read a device’s detail screen

Opening a device shows a header with its name and a status badge — one of Online, Offline, Disabled, or Never reported. The header’s quick actions are:

• Refresh — reload the device’s latest data.
• Run analysis — ask the AI agent to analyze this device now (see AI analysis).
• A More actions menu with Disable device / Enable device (stop or start monitoring) and Decommission (retire the device).

Below the header, two tabs organize the detail:

• Identity — the device’s name, ID, category, commissioned date, location, and related devices (its parent/child devices and the groups it belongs to). A Last AI Assessment card summarizes what the agent last found.
• Thresholds — the active threshold rules that decide when this device triggers an alert (see Alerts & thresholds).

Set how critical a device is

A device’s Criticality tells the platform how much attention it deserves — more critical devices are analyzed more often. Set it on the device:

Criticality	What it means
Low	Non-essential. Analyzed less frequently.
Normal	Standard analysis cadence. (Default.)
High	Important to operations. Analyzed more often.
Critical	Mission-critical. Highest priority.

Tip

Criticality and the per-device Analysis Interval work together to control how often the AI agent reviews a device. Mark your most important equipment High or Critical so issues there surface fastest.

Device categories

When you create a device you choose a Category. Categories range from generic sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure, vibration) to specific equipment (motor, HVAC, compressor, pump, conveyor) and process equipment (cold-storage monitor, pasteurization monitor, CIP system, chiller, flow meter, pH sensor). The category helps IoT Pulse apply the right default thresholds and analysis behavior for that kind of equipment.