IoT
Intro to OEE
Efficient manufacturing is important for saving companies time, money, and energy. Making decisions based on data can improve efficiency, but there’s a lot of data to sort through. Manufacturing equipment contains many sensors, especially in the IIoT space. Overall Equipment Effectiveness...
Quick Start: Telegraf’s Starlark Processor Plugin
This article was written by Dr. Phill West. Scroll down for the author’s photo and bio. After a mortgage payment, energy costs are typically the largest household expense. In my case it was an easy decision to install solar panels, but...
Kubernetes on the Edge: Getting Started with KubeEdge and Kubernetes for Edge Computing
Developers are always trying to improve the reliability and performance of their software, while at the same time reducing their own costs when possible. One way to accomplish this is edge computing and it’s gaining rapid adoption across industries. According to...
Real-Time Energy Management with InfluxDB and eSoftLink IoT Platform
Smart energy IoT platforms are empowering consumers to track energy usage and even control spend based on their next bill’s forecast. Yet eSoftThings, a specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), set out to push smart energy...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate’s Perspective (Part 3 - A Match Made in Heaven)
So here we are…the final chapter. In Part 2 of this series, we started to drill down into some of the concepts that make Kafka great. We concluded that although terminology between MQTT and Kafka was similar (for example topics), they...
Bboxx Taps Time Series Data to Light Up the Developing World
Using technology to help businesses thrive is always a thrill, but it doesn’t compare to the sense of accomplishment on both a personal and organizational level when you see your tech used to positively impact humanity. It’s one thing to function...
DEVCOM Uses InfluxDB to Connect the Field and the Lab
Handling network connection uncertainty The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) faces unique challenges in working with data to develop new technologies. It needs the ability to seamlessly analyze data both in the field and in...
Particle’s Fleet Health Feature, Powered by InfluxDB, Delivers Device-Specific Data for IoT Deployments
The Particle platform enables companies to manage and program their IoT devices, bringing them to market quicker. To accomplish this, Particle developers needed to be able to collect telemetry data from a large number of edge IoT devices to measure performance....
Prescient Devices Makes Managing IoT Edge Devices Easy with InfluxDB
Prescient Devices focuses on changing the way businesses think about and use edge data and industrial IoT. The company built Prescient Designer, an edge data solutions platform that gives organizations the boost they need to transform their IT/OT processes. Prescient’s products...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate’s Perspective (Part 2 – Kafka the Mighty)
In Part 1 of this series, we started to compare the uses of Kafka and MQTT within an IoT infrastructure. It was concluded that in a basic publish-and-subscribe model of an IoT device, Kafka might simply be overkill. However, we also...