Device organization & access control

Deep dive into Kamea IoT device management platform fleet organization and role-based access control capabilities.

Whether you’re a B2C manufacturer with thousands of devices spread across wide, remote regions looking to simplify the user experience, or a B2B enterprise with complex user and access management needs, Kamea delivers a powerful solution to organize your IoT devices and control access with precision.

With an intuitive hierarchical structure that mirrors your real-world organization, customizable role-based access control (RBAC), and full flexibility to handle everything from simple family sharing to multi-site, multi-entity deployments, Kamea adapts to your business.

Why organization & access control matter

  • Security & compliance: Make sure every user sees only what they’re authorized to, to prevent mistakes and block intrusions.
  • Operational efficiency: Organize equipment to reflect your actual business structure (plants, zones, regions) with clearly defined permissions.

IoT device organization

Kamea uses a tree-based model inspired by common file systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) for easy navigation:

  • Tenant: A strong data isolation unit. Each tenant is fully independent, ensuring strict separation between entities (e.g., resellers, business units).
  • Sub-tenants: Ideal for managing intermediate organizations, such as white-label distributors or subsidiaries.
  • Folders: Nested folders let you organize devices by site, plant, zone, or room. This structure supports cross-level searches and analysis, no matter how deep the hierarchy goes.
Kamea device organization

This approach mirrors your real-world structure and enables powerful queries (e.g., all devices in a specific plant).

Access management

Kamea’s access control system is built on RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), a proven model for security and flexibility:

  • Custom roles: A role is a set of permissions. Each permission maps to a specific action (e.g., view device data, change configuration, manage users). Create your own roles by combining available permissions.
  • Role assignment: Once roles are defined, assign them to an entity (tenant, sub-tenant, or folder), an individual user, a user group, or even a service account (for third-party integrations via API key).

Permissions inherit downward: a role assigned at the tenant level applies to its sub-tenants and folders. Roles defined at a folder level don’t propagate upward.

Kamea IoT RBAC

This granular approach covers every scenario: from simple family sharing to complex multi-site management with delegated access for external partners.

With Kamea, you get:

  • An intuitive structure (tenants, folders) that reflects your real organization.
  • A flexible RBAC system for managing users, groups, and third-party services.
  • Fine-grained control to meet both B2B and B2C needs, today and tomorrow.
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