--- title: The object card section: User Guide weight: 2 description: The object card in the IIoT Platform — the unit summary dashboard, connected devices, adding equipment, and the device data and configuration tabs. related: - user-guide/working-with-platform/objects - user-guide/working-with-platform/equipment - user-guide/dashboard --- import Image from '@/components/docs/Image.astro'; import Alert from '@/components/docs/Alert.astro'; Selecting an object from the [Objects](/en/platform/v3/user-guide/working-with-platform/objects) list opens its **card** — a single screen that brings together everything about that site: its summary, the equipment installed on it, and its data. ## The unit summary dashboard An object card in the IIoT Platform, showing the unit summary dashboard The top of the card shows the object's name and customer. The **Unit Summary Dashboard** below gives the key indicators at a glance: - **Active Devices** — how many of the object's devices are online. - **Last Session** — when the object last communicated with the server. - **Warnings** — items that require attention. - **Reports This Month** — reports generated for the object. Further down, **Connected Devices** lists the equipment installed on the object — as a **Scheme** or a **List** — each with its latest reading and online status, and **Recent Events** shows the latest activity, such as communication sessions. ## Adding equipment An object can carry a full measurement complex plus auxiliary equipment — pressure and temperature sensors, remotely controllable shut-off valves, and security sensors (door-open, gas-presence, and the like). Select **+ Add equipment** to open a step-by-step wizard. Step 1 of the Add equipment wizard in the IIoT Platform, choosing the equipment type **1. Equipment type.** Choose the device category to connect — for example a **Metering complex**. Attach an existing complex, or leave the **Equipment** field empty to create a new one inside the object. The later steps adapt to the type you pick. Step 2 of the Add equipment wizard in the IIoT Platform, entering the metering device details **2. Equipment.** Enter the device details — manufacturer and model, serial number, network address, type size, and energy source. Enable **With additional meter** to register an auxiliary meter alongside the main one. **3. Data source.** Set up the telemetry channel and reference data the device reports through. **4. Confirmation.** Review everything and confirm to add the equipment. Once added, the device appears under **Connected Devices**. ## Device data and configuration Open a connected device — for example the **Measurement Complex** — to work with it in detail. A switch in the header toggles the device between two groups of tabs: **Data** (what the device reports) and **Configuration** (how the device is set up). ### Data The **Data** view is where you read what the device has sent. #### Analytics **Analytics** is the device's summary: the accumulated standard volume, pressure value, last reading date, and the most recent communication session, with an archive summary and an activity heatmap below. The Analytics tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing accumulated volume, pressure, reading date, and an activity heatmap #### Archives **Archives** holds the device's stored readings. Switch between the **Hourly**, **Daily**, and **Monthly** readings archives — and the **Abnormal Situations**, **Changes**, **Generalized Emergency Situations**, and **Communication Session** logs — choose a date range, and export. Each row carries the readings for its period: pressure, temperature, accumulated working and standard volumes, the volume per period, and the change and situation counters. The Archives tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing an hourly readings archive with pressure, temperature, and accumulated volumes #### Communication Sessions **Communication Sessions** is the log of every connection between the device and the server: when each session ran and when the next is due, the telemetry battery voltage and signal level at the time, the result (such as **Successful** or **Data Transmission Interruption**), and the duration and traffic of each session. The Communication Sessions tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, listing sessions with battery, signal, status, duration, and traffic #### Battery Status **Battery Status** shows the telemetry battery's recent voltage readings as a table, alongside a discharge-trend chart over time — useful for spotting an autonomous device that is approaching the end of its battery life. The Battery Status tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing a battery voltage table and a discharge-trend chart #### Reports **Reports** generates and downloads reports for the device over a chosen period. Switch between **Current** and **Archive**, set the date range, and select **Generate**; the reports you create are listed here. The Reports tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, with the period selector and Generate action The **AI Assistant** tab rounds out the Data view, letting you ask natural-language questions about the device's readings. ### Configuration The **Configuration** view is where the device is set up. #### Equipment The **Equipment** tab is split into **Main** and **Additional**. **Main** holds the metering device and its data source — manufacturer and model, serial number, IMEI and ICCID, the SIM phone number, interface settings, and firmware updates. **Additional** holds extra parameters and any auxiliary equipment. The Equipment configuration tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing the metering device and its data source #### Information **Information** is the device's passport: **General Information** (name, status, the customer, the resource-supply and service companies, and contacts) and **Geolocation** (the object's address and its coordinates on a map). The Information configuration tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing general information and a geolocation map #### Schedules **Schedules** shows the communication schedule applied to the device — the main rule's source, its cron expression and time zone, and the next run time — followed by the main communication schedule and any additional or inherited rules. The Schedules configuration tab of a device in the IIoT Platform, showing the main rule, cron, time zone, and next run The **Logging** tab completes the Configuration view with a record of changes made to the device's setup. The tabs available depend on the device type and on your access level.