Assets

Assets are abstract entities in iRis Cloud that represent physical objects, spaces, or organizational units — buildings, rooms, production areas, fields, streetlights, substations, or vehicles. Unlike HMI Devices, assets don't generate telemetry on their own, but they can store attributes and telemetry, maintain relations with HMI Devices and other assets, and participate in alarms and dashboards.

Use a HMI Device for anything that connects to iRis Cloud and sends its own telemetry — a sensor, a controller, an HMI panel. Use an Asset for something that doesn’t connect directly but still needs to exist as an entity — a building, a room, a vehicle, a production line — so it can group related HMI Devices into a hierarchy or aggregate their data.

A common pattern: model the physical structure with assets (Building → Floor → Room), then relate each room to the HMI Devices physically inside it via Relations. Telemetry from the related HMI Devices is then queried across the whole hierarchy on a dashboard.

1. Navigate to Entities → Assets.
2. Click + and select Add new asset.
3. Enter a Name (must be unique within the tenant).
4. Optionally select an Asset profile (defaults to “default”), Label, or Description.
5. Click Add.

1. Click the asset in the list to open its details.
2. Click the pencil icon.
3. Update the name, label, profile, or description.
4. Click Apply changes.

Click the trash icon next to the asset and confirm, or open the asset details page and click Delete asset.

1. Locate the asset in the list.
2. Click the Assign to customer icon.
3. Select the target customer and click Assign.

Only users associated with that customer can access the asset and its data. You can later unassign or reassign the asset to another customer.

Click the Make asset public icon next to the asset to expose its data publicly, or Make asset private to revoke public access.

Opening an asset reveals a details panel with the following tabs:

Tab	Contents
Attributes	Client, server, and shared key-value pairs (location, category, configuration parameters)
Latest Telemetry	Telemetry stored on the asset; supports manual entry and deletion
Alarm Rules	Conditions, thresholds, and triggers configured for alarm generation
Alarms	Active and historical alarms for this asset
Events	Lifecycle events, logs, warnings, and errors
Relations	Directed connections to other entities
Audit Logs	History of user actions: creation, updates, deletions

You can create, view, edit, and delete relations between an asset and other entities from the Relations tab of the asset details page.

Add a relation:

1. Open the asset details → Relations tab.
2. Select the direction: From (outbound) or To (inbound).
3. Click +.
4. Set the Relation type (e.g., Contains, Manages) and choose the target entity.
5. Click Add.

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Dashboard widget shows no data for an asset	The widget’s entity alias doesn’t resolve to the asset, or the asset has no related HMI Device sending data	Check the alias in Entity aliases, and confirm the asset has a relation to a HMI Device that’s actively sending telemetry
Can’t find a way to share a single asset	Individual assets are made public or assigned to one customer, not “shared”	Assign it to a customer, or make it public — see Assign to Customer
Dashboard still references a deleted asset	Deleting an asset breaks its relations but not the dashboard widgets built on them	Update the affected entity aliases or widgets to point at a different asset

• Dashboards — visualize aggregated data, attributes, and alarms via widgets
• Relations — model hierarchies (e.g., Building → Contains → Room → Contains → Sensor)
• REST API — query, create, and manage assets programmatically