Glossary

Business key

A sites or sources

Custom filter

An Data Hub-proprietary syntax allowing to filter/select sites or sources

Form

An Data Hub object that defines additional properties of an entity

Master Data

Generic term that embraces the data and procedures offered by Opinum to bulk create/update Data Hub entities

Master Data Engine

The software engine that will process the Master Data inputs to bulk create/update Data Hub entities

Master Data Template File

A file that contains definition data used by the Master Data Engine to process the Master Data Upload file

Master Data Upload File

A file that contains the data that must be transformed by the Master Data Engine to alter Data Hub entities

MDE

See Master Data Engine

Opinum Data Hub

Opinum Data Hub® is the ultimate IoT & Data Analytics Platform to make quality data available to all your data driven processes and easily generate various types of reports, dashboards and alerts

Opinum storage

This is the logical place where all files (Master Data, data points, reports, ...) are stored. There is a storage per account.

Site

An Data Hub entity that represents a physical or logical site (location, building, zone, ...) and that is a container of sources

Source

An Data Hub entity that represents a physical or logical device (energy meter, air quality meter, ...) and that is a container of variables

Event

An Data Hub entity that represents a events that happened to a set of sources (i.e. boiler maintenance on the 1st of April 2018)

User

An Data Hub entity that represents a physical or logical user (person, function, ...) who has secured and potentially restricted accesses to other Data Hub entities (sites, sources, reports, alerts, ...)