Thing

The thing services allow you to model objects that you created using the configuration service. You can create a thing instance which constitutes to an individual tangible object.

IoT applications usually deal with very high volumes of data. To be able to handle data in a uniform and cost-effective way, the thing service consists of two main parts:

• Storage and retrieval of the thing configuration

  This corresponds to the thing types and property set type details.

• Storing and reading data specific to a thing based on the definitions in the thing configuration

  This corresponds to services such as creating data for a thing, and reading data such as properties, time series and so on.