Engineering

Aligning Eliona with the requirements and needs of customers and the project environment is of crucial importance. A wide range of methods and tools are available for this engineering of Eliona, covering all application areas.

The following figure provides an overview of the methods and tools for engineering Eliona.

In detail, the following methods and tools are available:

• Frontend: interfaces for configuration and bulk data processing

• Templates: use of preconfigured configuration data

• API: extensive API interfaces

• Creation: automatic creation of configuration data

Frontends

Eliona offers a comprehensive and user-friendly interface that enables many options for custom configuration. This interface also integrates the use of API interfaces for Apps and APIv2 integrated. This makes it possible to configure and evaluate Eliona using preconfigured JSON data. The creation and configuration of large volumes of data is thus possible in a structured and defined format.

Templates

Templates are used to simplify the creation of preconfigured configuration data.

Apps offer via Dashboard Templates the possibility to create specific dashboards for any user. The assets of the apps are displayed in a suitable way in typical dashboards and can then be individually adapted.

Eliona offers, through Rule Chain Templates the ability to automatically apply rules to a wide range of assets, thus saving the need to create identical rules.

API interfaces

Eliona offers with the APIv2 a comprehensive interface for querying and creating master and transaction data. The interface is JSON-based and can be used programmatically or ad hoc.

Apps also offer API interfaces to automate all app-specific configurations and query app data.

Creation

Apps automatically create master and transaction data in Eliona as needed. Using Continuous Asset Creation apps take over a large part of the configuration of device-specific apps. Assets are automatically created in Eliona and linked to the respective devices.