Product

What is a Product?

A product defines the fields in the database, the dashboard, the payload decoders, encoders for downlinks and product-specific settings, such as LoRaWAN network provider or other information concerning integrations.

Each device created on Datacake belongs to a Product. Thus, the device inherits the number of fields, the specific downlinks, decoders and other settings during adding or creation.

TL;DR. A product defines:

• Database Fields

• Dashboard

• Payload Decoder

• Downlinks

A device inherits and overrides these settings and/or overwrites (or stores data into the database fields).

Structure

According to the above description, the Product-Device structure in Datacake is as follows:

What are the benefits of using Products?

With a product you define properties that you can apply to all devices that belong to that product. You can consider products as a kind of template that defines the functions, properties and other things.

Thus, a product makes it easier to work with devices in large numbers.