Glossary

Term	Meaning
Organization	Your company's space in Things5, with its users, machines and settings. It has its own address and login page.
Machine (device)	A connected product. It belongs to a model, runs a firmware version and can be in a group.
Machine model	The product type: capabilities (firmware update, recipes, HACCP…), firmware versions and custom fields. See Machine models.
Firmware version	A version of the machine software. It defines the variables the machine sends (metrics, states, events, parameters), their translations, the default monitoring view, commands and KPIs.
Metric	A measured value, such as a temperature or a speed.
State	A variable that stays in a value for a period, such as door open or defrost.
Event	Something that happens at a moment or for a period, such as an alarm. Events have a severity: alarm, warning or info.
Parameter	A configuration value of the machine that can be read and written from Things5.
Command	A predefined set of parameter values sent to the machine with one click.
Group	A set of machines. Groups can contain subgroups and be organized in categories; access is granted per group.
Role	A set of permissions. A user has a role on the organization or on a group.
Recipe	A program stored on the machine. Recipe templates are recipes for a model, collected in cookbooks and sent to many machines.
Activity	A bulk operation on many machines (firmware update, cookbook sync, parameters update).
Plan	A license assigned to a machine, which decides what can be done with it and until when.