Key terms and concepts used throughout Spot Connect.
Integration: A way to organize all the different events and their associated devices so that customers can quickly investigate business-critical events.
Integration Type: For specific use-cases like POS integration, SpotAI provides a specific visualization layer. This will require customers to follow a default schema when creating integration event types so information displays correctly. Customers can add to the default schema as needed.
Integration Event Type: A template that defines the contract every integration event of said type must conform to. This includes “duration”, “buffer”, and “schema”. E.g. All events of type “Purchase” must adhere to the same contract.
Integration Event: A specific instance of an integration event type. E.g. Transaction 100
Integration Device: A user-defined specific device/object that the events are tied to. This device can be associated with up to four cameras which is how we automatically surface event footage
External Device ID: A vendor-provided identifier for a device, used for automatic device creation and matching. When events include a device_external_id, Spot can match existing devices by their external ID or automatically create new devices.
Device ID Template: A pattern that extracts device identifiers from event data using variable interpolation. Templates use {variable} syntax to reference fields from the event payload (e.g., {metadata.register_id}). When configured on an Integration Event Type, the template is evaluated for each incoming event to determine the device association.
