Spaces and Rooms

The Building has a hierarchical structure, where the Building itself is the main level. You can navigate to any other entity from there and/or create/edit them.

As we covered the Floor mechanics, lets take a different example of a Space. You can navigate to a Space from the "Devices" area in the Main view.

Space creating and device management

You can add an additional Space here, via the blue button or edit an existing one (pen icon). Let us edit the existing space.

An entity only exists if you have added it to the hierarchy when creating the Building. You can add more or remove existing ones later, however there are 0 entities of a given type when you create the Building there is no way to create them later.

Navigating to a Space

Let us add a device to this Space. This is done in the Manage Devices area. Select the desired devices (via the check box) and move them to the right of the table via the arrow.

Assigning devices to a Space

Once moved over the devices appear in the right table, however they remain in the left list. The list on the left does not change unless you remove a device from the Building entirely. Take note this will remove the device from Enterprise and you would have to add it anew either manually or via a CSV file.

Once you have moved the devices over press the "Submit" button and they will be assigned.

Submitting changes

The page will refresh and they will be visible in the All Devices view. Take note that at the top of every are, whether a Floor, Space or Room there is a summary where you can quickly check the total number of devices and the ones that are currently online. This is useful in case there are a lot of devices and the list is long and not visible on the screen.

This is also where you can Edit the Space name or Delete it (via the blue button).

Space summary and editing/deleting

Rooms

This is the lowest level structure and it is similar to spaces. The process of assigning a device is the same as for a Space. Simply navigate to the Manage Devices area, select the desired devices and move them over. Submit the changes and you are done.

Managing devices in a Room

Layered structure and device visibility

One important thing to note is that device assignment is hierarchical. This means that a devices being assigned to a building entity on a lower level will exist in this level and be managed from there. However, each higher level that the lower level is a part of will also contain the device and has visibility and control over it. Let us look at an example to better understand this.

In our Building we have a total of 7 devices, 2 of which are online.

Online devices

We have 1 Floor that has 1 Space that has 2 Rooms, where 2 Devices have been assigned. However these can be on any of the levels, not necessarily on the Floor itself.

Floor summary

If you go to the Manage Devices section of this Floor you will see that no devices have been assigned there.

Floor Device Management

If we go on the Space level we would see a similar picture. The Space has 2 Rooms and there are 2 Devices, yet no devices are to be managed there. This is because the devices have been assigned on the lowest laver, in one of the Rooms.

Rooms and their devices

If we explore that particular room we will see the devices being assigned there.

Room Device Management

In summary, devices assigned on a lower level of the building will be visible on all higher levels, but not on lower ones. Furthermore the total number of devices displayed on a given level is the sum of devices on this level plus all lower levels.

For example: A Building that has 1 Room with 2 Devices, 1 Space with 1 Device and a Floor with 3 devices will have a the following number of devices per level: Floor - 6 Space - 3 Room - 2