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title: "Tulip and IoT guide"
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updated: 2022-11-17T14:49:33Z
published: 2022-11-17T14:49:33Z
canonical: "support.tulip.co/tulip-and-iot-guide"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Tulip and IoT guide

*Here's an overview of the different types of devices that you can integrate into Tulip.*

Tulip supports a variety of IoT enabled devices that can help you achieve common manufacturing tasks, such as:

- **Capture**: Capture images and videos with camera integration.
  - For example, operators can capture images of defects for the whole team to review. Using a Tulip App, capturing an image can be an enforced step of an SOP, which could later be reviewed in an audit.
- **Serialize**: Serialize components with barcodes or RFID tags. Dynamically control the workflow within your Tulip App through ERP/MES integrations.
- **Identify**: Develop powerful machine vision jobs that can identify, localize, and track parts. Ideal for error-proofing applications and ensuring component placement.
- **Control**: Control process flow through integration of through beams, foot pedals, proximity sensors, operator RFID badges, and buttons. Enable hands-free operation to keep operators focused on the work at hand.
- **Monitor**: Monitor and control complex machines such as CNC, injection molding, and torque drivers. Easily integrate operator and machine workflows.
- **Measure**: Collect data from scales, calipers, thermometers, pressure, current, and other sensors. Set Tulip Triggers to dynamically control your process based on one or many sensor readings.

Edge Devices can be visualized in the **Shop Floor** Tab in Tulip, and associated with a Station that is either standalone or a part of a Station Group.

You can select a device to review its setup information, latest operational details and see recent Events from devices connected to the Tulip Edge Device.

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For a further breakdown of the shop floor, visit [this page.](https://support.tulip.co/docs/shop-floor)

Once a physical device is properly connected to a Station, you can use the Tulip App Editor to include the device in an App.

The App Summary View provides an easy overview of the devices in a specific app. Simple icons indicate the type of devices used in an app. In this view, you can also inspect the specific devices used in each step of the app.

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**Trigger**

**Triggers** are groups of logic that are tied to an app event, such as step open, timer, widget interaction, etc. App builders can add triggers to **widgets**, **machines**, **devices**, **apps**, and **steps**.

**Triggers** can contain **actions**, **transitions**, and **conditions**.

**Edge Devices**

**Edge Devices** are any hardware intended to connect physical things to the cloud. This can include entirely mechanical devices, older machines without network functionality, PLCs, and more.

Tulip sells the **Edge IO** and **Edge MC** that interface directly into **Triggers** in a breeze, but Tulip can also support other Edge Devices.

**Shop Floor**

The area of the platform responsible for moving applications into production. Under the shop floor, you can manage **Stations**, **Edge Devices,**and the app publication details such as which **Version** is accessible to users, which **Devices**are connected to the app, and which **Interface (display device)******the app is run on.

**Station**

**Stations**are a digital representation of a physical place or device in your facility. Stations are 1:1 with **Interfaces (display devices)** running Tulip Player, but Stations can also be assigned **Edge Devices,**Tulip Vision Camera Configurations, Machines,****and more.

**Station Group**

A higher-level grouping of **Stations** within an instance. Useful for application management and bulk station configuration.

**Events**

**Events**are **Triggers**fired by Custom **Widgets.**Users can configure as many Events as they want, and events can carry a payload of data to be used in a **Trigger.**

**App Editor**

The web interface used for building applications. Where you design a user interface, add logic, and connect your applications to **Tables**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7c6ff534-cad3-4fc8-9583-912c4016362f/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-13%20at%207.50.23%20AM.png)