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Getting started

This walkthrough goes from signing in to a live Refraction writing rows to a Capture Set. It assumes Intrasys has already provisioned your organization and assigned at least one Facet to it (see Setup & onboarding for the admin side).

The console lives at console.prism.intrasys.ai.

1. Sign in​

Prism has no self-signup. Sign in with your Prism account; you land on the Dashboard with your organization's Sites, Facets, and recent events.

2. Organize your Sites​

Under Sites, create the physical groupings your Facets belong to — "Warehouse A", "Front Gate". A Site is either indoor (building / floor / zone) or outdoor (lat/lng). Each Facet belongs to at most one Site.

3. Check your Facets​

Under Facets you'll see each device with a live status badge. Open a Facet to edit its label, assign it to a Site, and view live telemetry (CPU / memory / disk / temperature, agent buffer, MQTT state). A Facet advertises its capabilities — the Signals it emits and the actions it supports — which the Refraction builder uses.

4. Build a Refraction​

Under Refractions → New, open the canvas builder:

  1. Drop a trigger — most commonly on Signal, matching one or more Signal types (e.g. rfid.tag_read), optionally restricted to specific source Facets.
  2. Add stages from the palette — a filter, a transform, a device command, a notification, a save to Capture Set, and so on. See the stage catalog.
  3. Wire the pass / fail handles between stages to form the flow.
  4. Configure each stage in the right-hand panel.

5. Test it (live)​

Open Test, pick a recent real trigger payload, and run. Each stage lights up with a step console so you can see what happened.

caution

A test run is a real, live run — notifications send, device commands fire, and Capture Set rows are written. Prism shows an itemized side-effect summary ("2 notifications · 1 device command") to confirm before it runs.

6. Enable it​

Enable the Refraction so it processes live Signals from your Facets.

7. Watch Signals and rows arrive​

  • Signals — a live, paginated timeline of every event, with expandable JSON.
  • Capture Sets — open the set your Refraction writes to; rows stream in live, with media thumbnails, date filters, and export to HTML / PDF / CSV / ZIP.
  • Spectrum — build a live monitoring View from widgets (camera snapshot, RFID feed, facet status, counters).

To inspect what a Refraction did, open its Executions — each run shows the stage chain with live status, like a pipeline, and links to the rows it wrote.