Posted On: Aug 23, 2022
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies, allowing asset name reusability. The new feature simplifies scaling for companies creating asset hierarchies for more than one hierarchy tree within the same AWS account and AWS IoT SiteWise installation.
Before, asset names had to be unique across all models. This would require users to add a prefix in order to distinguish assets in different hierarchies, making it impossible to reuse the asset names for a new hierarchy. This feature will allow companies to use asset names as unique identifiers across different systems, avoiding the need to keep different code paths for engineering efficiency. However, customers are still required to have unique asset name under the same parent asset.
For more information on how to create asset models and asset model hierarchies, see creating asset models and defining relationships between asset models (hierarchies) in our User Guide.
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale. To learn more, please visit the AWS IoT SiteWise website or the developer guide.