An entity is the company/location based hierarchy where users can manage various entities/companies under which various devices and users can be managed. The entity in this portal has a feature to support multiple companies/locations in relation to parent-child architecture. This facilitates a user to manage multiple sub-companies under a parent company and provision to get analytics/reports based on single as well as the group of entities.
Below are the different use cases for Entity.
Use Case 1– The requirement is to manage devices under the person who is operating that device. You can use the entity as an operator and create a user under the entity. Next, at the time of creating a device, assign that operators entity.
Use Case 2– You can leverage the entity when you need to manage the multiple company locations or create sub companies under the parent company.
Use Case 3– The requirement is to manage services stations of the company. You can define the service station as a entity and assign the devices under the service stations.
Use Case 4– The requirement is to manage the mobile van which consist of the device. You can create the mobile van as a entity and leverage it.