Hi, Thank you all . :) *Cordialement,*
*Salim Zayen* *?l?ve ing?nieur * *t?l?phone :+216 23 85 66 25* *esprit*? 2016-07-21 2:33 GMT+01:00 Mats Wichmann <mats at osg.samsung.com>: > On 07/20/2016 09:09 PM, EZAYEN Salim via iotivity-dev wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new in the IoTivity, I run all the samples in the project, my > question is what is the difference between a device and resource, as I > understand the device is the sensor (for example light, fan...), and the > resource is the action (how to control it for example On/off), and if I add > a new sensor to the network, it will be found automatically or not? > > Thank you for your time. > > > So in terms of concepts as described in OCF specifications, may not 100% > match terms actually used in iotivity so be aware. > > at highest level is the platform. Think of the platform as something you > might "sell" - a thermostat, a fridge, a user application (this term really > has no reason to appear in IoTivity; it's a concept that is interesting to > OCF as the unit which is certified to). > > a platform contains one or more devices, which you can think of as a > logical functional unit. many cases they will be the same, but it's not > hard to think of a hypotentical multifunction printer (platform) which > contains three devices - a printer, a scanner, a fax. > > devices then expose resources that are kind of the functional units within > that device - a stove would have maybe several temperature sensors, an > actuator you can tell to raise the cooking temperature, timers, etc. > > hope that helps with the conceptual viewpoint. > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20160721/52034c2c/attachment.html>
