device

With regard to the Niagara network, a device is an object that fulfills a particular purpose. A device may be a physical mechanical or electrical component, such as a BACnet device, or it may be a software object, such as a station, oBIX server. What actually comprises a device may depend on your design and levels of abstraction.

Devices can provide or accept different types of data and they may contain metadata, such as device ID, Model, or serial number of the device itself.