Team hierarchy

The Giraffe Cloud is split into a hierachal structure. The diagram below gives an overview of how it is structure.

User accounts

The top level of the hierarchy are user accounts. A user account can be a member of multiple teams.

A user account can have one of three permissions levels on a team:

• owner

• admin

• member

A team can only have one owner, but it can have multiple admin's and members.

Teams

A team is the top level organisational unit. A team typically maps to a company in real life, but for large organisations, you may split your account up over multiple teams.

A team can have user accounts linked to it who will gain access to the devices on that team.

Child teams

A child team is identical to a normal team, except it is managed by it's parent account.

Any user account that is a member of the parent team, will automaticaly inherit the same permission level on a child team. These users do not have to be manually added to the child team.

The parent team can also see an overview of all the devices on the child team, and has access to various management tools.

Sites

A site maps to a location in real life. Sites are used to organise the devices on a team into groups.

A team can have multiple sites, but a device (normally an Edge Controller) can only be linked to one site at a time.

Edge Controllers

An Edge Controller is linked to a site.

Cameras

Cameras are always linked to an Edge Controller.