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Asset Intelligence transforms Home Assistant into a system that understands:
- What you own (assets)
- Where things are (areas)
- What conditions matter (environment)
- What those conditions mean (risk and advisory)
No.
Asset Intelligence is a system-level integration that:
- Models assets as devices
- Uses Home Assistant as the system of record
- Adds intelligence on top of environment, placement, and context
Rooms are managed by Home Assistant Areas.
This ensures:
- No duplication
- No sync issues
- Consistent room definitions across your system
Changes in Home Assistant are automatically reflected in Asset Intelligence.
Each asset is implemented as a Home Assistant device.
This allows:
- Use in automations
- Visibility in HA UI
- Area and label integration
No.
Assets are created once and reconnected on restart.
Yes, but using Asset Intelligence is recommended to maintain consistency.
Labels are created in Home Assistant:
Settings → Labels
Labels are global and shared across Home Assistant.
This allows consistency across integrations and automations.
Yes.
This is encouraged to provide flexible categorization.
This means:
- A sensor has not been configured
- A sensor is unavailable
- Data is missing
If light or exposure matters for an asset, missing sensors reduce confidence and completeness of evaluation.
No.
You should configure sensors based on what matters in each room.
- Risk = current evaluated state (Green, Amber, Red)
- Advisory = explanation or recommendation
Amber can mean:
- Warning conditions
- Missing data
- Reduced confidence
- Early indicators before a Red condition
Debounce rules may be active.
The system waits for conditions to persist before confirming a state change.
The system does not assume safety when data is missing.
It warns to indicate incomplete understanding.
By design:
- Asset Intelligence detects and explains
- Home Assistant automations decide and act
Use Home Assistant automations:
- Trigger on risk state
- Trigger on advisory signals
- Perform actions (HVAC, shades, alerts)
- Use risk state for control
- Use advisory for notifications
Documents are stored in your configured external storage (e.g., NAS).
Document upload and management will not function.
No.
Only references are stored—files are external.
- Asset changes
- Risk transitions
- Environment events
- Advisory generation
- Document actions
- Custody events
History is bounded to avoid excessive storage usage.
- Assets reconnect to existing devices
- Environment evaluation resumes
- No duplication occurs
The system always produces a result, but confidence and warnings reflect gaps.
No.
It is an intelligence layer—not a control system.
Asset Intelligence:
- Detects conditions
- Evaluates risk
- Explains what matters
Home Assistant:
- Executes actions
- Runs automations
- Controls devices
The system is designed to separate awareness from action.