Superclass (is-a): Device

Agent

Definition: Device composed of an MTConnect Agentagent for the MTConnect Information Model. and all its connected data sources.

Version Info

Introduced	Deprecated	Updated
1.7

Documentation

Description

An Agent MUST be provided by all MTConnect Agentagent for the MTConnect Information Model. implementations.

An Agent MUST provide notifications when devices are added or changed.

An Agent MUST provide connection information for each data source currently supplying data to the MTConnect Agentagent for the MTConnect Information Model..

An Agent MAY provide information about telemetry relating to data sources.

An Agent MAY provide information about the MTConnect Agentagent for the MTConnect Information Model. resource utilization.

Inherited from Device

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Properties

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
id	ID	1.0		1	unique identifier for the «abstract» Component.
name	string	1.0		0..1	name of the «abstract» Component. When provided, ::name MUST be unique for all child «abstract» Component entities of a parent «abstract» Component.
nativeName	string	1.1		0..1	common name associated with «abstract» Component.
sampleInterval	float	1.2		0..1	interval in milliseconds between the completion of the reading of the data associated with the «abstract» Component until the beginning of the next sampling of that data. This information may be used by client software applications to understand how often information from a «abstract» Component is expected to be refreshed. The refresh rate for data from all child «abstract» Component entities will be the same as for the parent «abstract» Component element unless specifically overridden by another ::sampleInterval provided for the child «abstract» Component.
sampleRate	float	1.0	1.2	0..1	DEPRECATED in MTConnect Version 1.2. Replaced by ::sampleInterval,Component.
uuid	ID	1.0		0..1	universally unique identifier for the «abstract» Component.
coordinateSystemIdRef	ID	1.8		0..1	specifies the CoordinateSystem for this «abstract» Component and its children.
iso841Class	string	1.0	1.2	0..1	DEPRECATED in MTConnect Version 1.2.
uuid	ID	1.0		1	universally unique identifier for the element.
mtconnectVersion	string	1.7		0..1	MTConnect version of the Device Information Modelinformation model that describes the physical and logical configuration for a piece of equipment and the data that may be reported by that equipment. used to configure the information to be published for a piece of equipment in an MTConnect Response Documentresponse document published by an MTConnect Agent..
name	string	1.0		1	name of an element or a piece of equipment.
hash	string	2.2		0..1	condensed message digest from a secure one-way hash function. FIPS PUB 180-4

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