The device life cycle is useful to assess who created a device and when any changes are made. It represents different stages of a device in IoTConnect. These stages are – create, acquire, active, release, change entity, update, inactive and delete.
(Screen: Device Life Cycle)
The device life cycle shows the activities you performed on a device and the status of a device. On creating a device, it gets recorded as ‘Device Created’ in Activity and ‘Created’ in Status. Other activities and status of a device’s life cycle are as per the following:
- Change By – Name of the user who made changes in a device.
- Activity – The column presents all the activities of a device from device created, acquired, released to entity changed, etc.
- Status – The present status of a device.
- Change Date – The activity will be considered an update whether you change an entity of a device or a device name. The column shows the date on which a user makes an update.