Locations

Assets in Jitsuin Archivist are arranged into locations, which allows logical assets (eg digital twins) to be grouped together in a physical context (eg a single plant location).

This enables users of the system to quickly identify the answers to questions such as “how many PLCs in the Greyslake plant need to be updated?”, or “who was the last person to touch any device in the Cape Town facility?”. It is not required for assets to be associated with a location, but it is a useful way to group assets in the same physical location without inventing your own link values in custom attributes.

It is important to recognize that the location does not necessarily denote the asset’s current position in space: it simply determines which facility the asset belongs to. For things that move around, GIS location information can be included with any event in the Asset Record, and the asset’s arc_last_seen property will be updated appropriately.

Resolution

Locations have full 6-digit decimal latitude and longitude components allowing high-precision placement on any map renderer or GIS software you wish to link them to. While the primary intention of locations is to provide a way of grouping a number of assets together into a single plant or facility, it is possible to create and manage a location for each individual asset if that is more suitable.

Data members

As with all Jitsuin Archivist data types, locations support custom attributes which can be defined and used for any purpose by the user. This enables storage of a mailing address, phone number, or contact details of the site manager, for example.

Natively, the data structure contains and requires only the basic identification and latitude/longitude information to plot and display in a GIS framework such as Google Maps.

For further details, see Location Creation.