After many years we are constrained to change some notations: due to the evolution of Snap4City tools and concepts in terms of their capabilities, features, some of the tools and concepts would be better represented with different names. In particular, we are evolving the names as reported in the following table. The change of the name will be progressively propagated in the platform tools, this document, document of technical overview, and on slides, step by step. In the meanwhile, in most cases the text would report both names, and thus please keep in mind that:
Former name |
New name, from 2023 |
What |
IoT Device Model |
A data model |
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A data instance ready to get message for time series |
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IoT Device Variable |
Entity Variable |
A variable of an Entity Instance or of an Entity Model |
IoT Device Message, device message |
Entity Message |
A data message |
The tool for managing models, entities, data models, etc. |
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