Glossary

Business unit

The consumer a device belongs to. Together with the device's environment, it selects the production stream that receives that device's telemetry. A role is named for a business unit.

Commissioning

The lifecycle stage where a manufactured device is powered on, completes automatic first-boot provisioning to obtain its unique certificate, and is assigned a business unit and environment so it can enter active service in the field. See Commissioning.

Controller

A payload type. Its schema is registered so messages of that type can be decoded.

Device

Always refers to the IoT Gateway hardware. See IoT Gateway.

Environment

A field on the device, set alongside the business unit. The two select the production stream for that device's telemetry.

IoT Gateway

A telemetry device able to capture data from multiple sources on the edge and communicate bidirectionally with Bifrost.

Permission level

Viewer, editor, or owner. See Permission Levels.

Provisioning

The automatic first-boot handshake during commissioning where a device connects with its manufacturing claim certificate and receives its own unique device certificate. Provisioning establishes the device's cryptographic identity, not its business unit ownership, and must succeed before the device can publish telemetry or receive commands. See Commissioning.