Creating asset models and component models

AWS IoT SiteWise asset models and component models drive standardization of your industrial data. An asset model or component model contains a name, description, asset properties, and (optionally) custom composite models that group properties together, or that reference component models for subassemblies.

• You use an asset model to create assets. In addition to the features listed above, an asset model can also contain hierarchy definitions that define relationships among assets.

• A component model represents a subassembly within an asset model or another component model. When you create a component model, you can add references to it in asset models and in other component models. However, you can't create assets directly from component models.

After you create an asset model or component model, you can create custom composite models for it to group properties together or to reference existing component models.

For details about how to create asset models and component models, see the following sections.

Topics

• Creating asset models
• Creating component models
• Defining data properties
• Creating custom composite models (Components)