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The Devices widget provides the ability to create and provision devices, view device information, manage and maintain devices, and assign devices to contexts. These tasks are discussed in the Site Provisioning section.
The /wiki/spaces/TEMP/pages/43815838 Planning widget is used to create contexts in the SmartServer IoT CMS. Contexts are created based on type (i.e., campus, building, floor, room, or area) and can be linked to one or more system entities such as devices or device groups.
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The block diagrams shown in the figure below represent the device with relevant input (left side of the box) and output (right side of the box) datapoints to better visualize the relationship between devices and datapoints. You will get a better understanding of how these datapoints are used as you complete the exercises in this tutorial. For now, it is sufficient to recognize that a device type (which is a type of a device) is defined by its input and output datapoints and this definition is provided in the interface file (which uses the extension XIF).
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