self inclusion

Could you elaborate on that?

sure.. When hooking up sensors etc. you need to include them in your system to get data.... it could be zigbee, opcua, mqtt, what ever.. usually some naming needs to be done to identify the sensor and the data.. using self inclusion you can have a server with say for example mqtt where the sensor is pre-programmed to send for example {name: "tempsensor 1", serialnumber: 323423, data: "analog", unit: "temperature, status: "not joined", mac: "31:32:ac:32:d1:21", ip: "192.168.3.31" } to the network and the server will respond to that sensor with a join message and settings for the sensor..

Got it. I typically call it

automated provisioning

, but the idea is the same.