What is a Location

Locations are the collective term for the elements in the hierarchy supporting the sensor architecture within your Organization on SecondSky Data. The terminology and structure for this hierarchy is as follows:

Organization/Site/Facility/Room/Zone/Sensor

While these designations are intended to represent the distinct functions explained below, they are purely semantic in nature and can be used to classify any logical hierarchy.

What is an Organization

Your Organization refers to the company which owns relative Sites. It is possible to be a multi-organizational user on SecondSky Data and your Organization name will be used on generated reports, so defining this property correctly can be important to how you navigate the system.

What is a Site

A Site is the physical location of agricultural operation. This will generally be represented by a specific geographic coordinate, even if inclusive of a large area containing multiple Facilities.

What is a Facility

A Facility is a standalone physical structure. This would most likely be a greenhouse, but could also refer to any connected group of smaller structures, a series of linked polytunnels for instance.

What is a Room

Rooms refer to designated or physically separated spaces within a Facility. Should a greenhouse be split by walls, for instance, or potentially as a reference to each polytunnel in a connected series.

What is a Zone

Zones refer to areas within Rooms that are not physically separated from each other but are designated as different spaces for organizational or management purposes. This could be due to a variety of different reasons, including, but not limited to crop types, irrigation systems, harvest plans, resource requirements, or simply as a way to granulate data.

What is a Sensor

Sensors refer to the physical devices installed to monitor the conditions within a Location. While these would generally be enrolled at a Room or Zone level, there are instances where it would make sense to enroll a specific Sensor at a higher tier, a Weather Station at a Site level for example.