Within the platform you need a way to organise all the devices (i.e. sensors and Cloud Connectors/CCON etc.) that you will be installing. It's important that you do this prior to physically installing your devices.
You will need to decide on both the structure you want to use, and the naming convention by which you want to name things.
For both of these, it is important you do this logically, and name the folders in a way that can easily be interpreted by someone who hasn't been involved in setting up the structure. For example, when one of the sensors triggers an alert, a remote engineer who has never been to that building, might be the one that gets the email to take action. In the email it will show them the sensor name, and the breadcrumb trail of folders that the sensor is contained within. Make sure it will make sense to them.
Creating the folder structure
Deciding on your structure
Like common document storage applications, you have the ability to create folders in the platform. Some of these folders can remain flexible folders, and some of the folders are required to be associated with a Building or Floor.
This helps you utilise some of our other features such as Floor Plans and the Installation Flow. A Floor Plan for example, will be uploaded for a Floor.
You will see a folder with the name of your organisation. you should set up the folder structure within this folder.
We strongly recommend that you structure the folders geographically for the entire hierarchy, mirroring locations in the real world. An example is shown below.
Note three points from the diagram above:
While the top of the hierarchy can be somewhat flexible, Building and Floor folders are required to install your sensors in.
You have the option of creating Rooms within the Floors. Rooms should not have any subfolders. Try using the sensor name, and labelling to identify the location of the sensors within a Room.
Sensors should typically be installed into the lowest level folder. In this case, the rooms.
Setting up your folder structure
This is a very quick and straightforward process but, if you have a lot of folders to create, Infogrid are able to set them up in bulk for you. Ask your Customer Success Manager for assistance with this.
To set up your folder structure you need to do two things:
Create the folder structure.
Convert the Building and Floor folders into Buildings and Floors - very important.
Firstly, create your folder structure in the Folders section of the platform, as shown below.
Go to the Folders section.
Click Create Folder, and name the folder.
Then you need to tell the platform which of these folders are the Buildings and Floors. Go to the 'Floor Plan' section in the platform and follow the instructions below:
Click Create a new building at the top of the page.
Select the folder that you want to convert to a building. At the moment you can only do this one at a time.
Add the address of the building.
Choose the sub folders that you want to convert to floors.
Repeat for other buildings.
Once you have done this, you will see in the Folders section that the icon next to the Building and Floor folders have changed.
Note that you can also create Buildings and Floors from the Floor Plan section of the platform, which will create these, already configured, folders in the Folders section.
You are now ready to start installing sensors using the installation flow, and adding floor plans to each floor so that you can mark where you have put your sensors.