Is it possible to add more than one element in DM which are based on one physical element, without causing multiple traffic?

So far we have only found a way to add several elements all pointing to the same device. Example: there is one (physical) device, which is perfoming multiple tasks. We want to include different instances of this device (including monitoring different parts and parameters of the device) into different views in DM. To solve this, so far we are adding several elements (in the discrete views) all referring to the same physical device with the same IP etc. This leads to multiple polling of this device, we assume. Correct?

Is there a more sophisticated way to break down one "main element" into "sub-elements", so we can work with dedicated alarm templates etc.? The principle of "virtual elements" sounds good concerning this task, but the implementation does not seem to fit to this challenge.