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<h1 class="main-heading">Importing Brick Equipment into Senfi</h1>

Equipment and points of a building that has been described in Brick schema can be serialized into .ttl (Turtle/TTL) format and imported into Senfi. The following section will detail the process to do so.

When importing from TTL to a site, the following happens:
# Brick equipment will be created as Senfi assets
## The equipment's name will be used as the Senfi asset's name
# Brick equipment will have a Senfi class and measurements created for them based on their brick equipment class (and also their related points). For equipment with identical brick equipment classes and points, measurements will re-used.
## The equipment's classes will be used as the Senfi class and measurement names and codes
# Brick points will be imported as metrics of measurements
## The point's classes will be used as the Senfi metric measurement names and codes
## Senfi points will be read-only, float type
# Mapping table entries will be created in Senfi to map a Senfi asset to classes, measurement, tags, and "metric to brick point name" data
## The equipment's name will be used as the measurement's tag
# Brick equipment-equipment relationships will be created as Senfi asset-asset relationships

When re-importing from TTL to a site, the import process will also consider existing classes, measurements and assets of the site, and re-use them if an exact match (based on equipment type and points) is found. Otherwise, new measurement, classes and/or assets are created.

Prerequisite knowledge:
* Senfi concepts related to Asset
* Senfi concepts related to Brick Schema
* Senfi concepts related to Asset Classes and Relationships
* Building, Block & Level concepts
* Measurement concepts, and corresponding Tag system.

=== How to Import Brick Equipment into Senfi ===