# Structuring Assets

Even in a relatively small tenant, an extremely large number of assets can accumulate very quickly.

To maintain an overview, it's therefore extremely important to structure assets in a logical and comprehensible way.

BuildingPro Suites offers two ways to structure and display assets:

* Functional sorting
* Geographical sorting

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## Nesting Assets

Assets can be nested within each other. Nesting is a hierarchical organization of assets, where an asset is assigned a parent asset.

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**Example**

Within a "Country" asset, there is the "Building" asset.

Within the "Building" asset, there is a "Floor" asset.

Within the "Floor" asset, there is the "Room" asset.

Within the "Room" asset, there is the "Sensor" asset.

The nesting then looks like this: Country > Building > Floor > Room > Sensor
{% endhint %}

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## Geographical Sorting

Geographical sorting displays assets sorted geographically. This allows you to see, for example, all the sensors on a floor at a glance.

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## Functional Sorting

Functional sorting sorts assets according to their affiliation with a parent system.

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Example:

A building contains a ventilation system. This ventilation system is distributed throughout the entire building: the control system is in the basement, each room has several fans and temperature sensors, and there are more fans on the roof.

For BuildingPro Suites, each individual fan, temperature sensor, etc., is its own asset.

With geographical sorting, it would be extremely difficult to keep track of every single asset. The user would have to navigate to each individual floor and each individual room just to see a few assets.

Furthermore, the user would have to know exactly how many assets there are in total.

Functional sorting makes everything much simpler: There is one asset for the entire ventilation system. All assets that functionally belong to the ventilation system are subordinate to this asset.
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