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Adding a Device
Field
Description
Product Manufacturer 
A free-text field specifying the name of the manufacturer.
Product Type
The Product type assigned to the Device. All Devices with a given Product type have the same properties. For example, all the properties of the same type of heat sensor model.
Device Name
A free-text field specifying the name of the Device.
Serial Number
The serial number assigned to the Device by the customer.
Groups
The groups to which the Device belongs.
Parent Device
This will place the device under the parent device in the hierarchy, this is usually used to describe a gateway/sensor relationship, when the parent device is the gateway.