Introduction to Drivers and Assets
ESF introduces a model based on the concepts of Drivers and Assets to simplify the communication with the field devices attached to a gateway.
A Driver encapsulates the communication protocol and its configuration parameters, dealing with the low-level characteristics of the field protocol.
An Asset is a logical representation of a field device.
Drivers and Assets in ESF Administrative UI
ESF provides a specific section of the UI to allow users to manage the different instances of Drivers and Assets.
Using the ESF Web UI the user can instantiate and manage Drivers
![Driver_config.png 2428](https://files.readme.io/4e74824-Driver_config.png)
but also can manage Assets instances based on existing drivers.
![Asset_Config.png 2430](https://files.readme.io/648fcec-Asset_Config.png)
The user interface allows also to perform specific reads on the configured Assets' channels clicking on the Data tab for the selected Asset.
![Asset_Data.png 2432](https://files.readme.io/e4f7f16-Asset_Data.png)
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