IoT
Learning Go with the InfluxDB Go Library
I’m not a Golang developer. Let’s just get that out of the way up front. I’ve developed a few things in Go, but a Go developer I’m not. I sort of need to be, but it hasn’t been essential. I decided...
What the IoT Needs is a Data Layer
When people talk about the IoT market, it is almost always in terms of the number of devices that are, or will be, connected to the internet. 20 Billion devices by 2020, <insert billions> of devices by 2025. That’s a fun...
The Eclipse IoT Developer Survey Results Are In!
For those that don’t know, InfluxData has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation since late last year. We joined because it turned out that a few of the Eclipse IoT Projects were already based on, or used as their underlying...
Honey, I Instrumented the Kids with InfluxDB!
Parenting is hard. It’s even harder when your kids are sick. But kids are germ factories, and no matter what you do, they get sick. And then you have to touch them and get the germs on you. And then you get...
Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT
A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) I wrote about using this little GlowOrb I had to show alerts from Kapacitor. It was really pretty cool, and I’ve been using it for demos ever since to great...
Monitoring OpenWRT with Telegraf
What’s the most popular open source router software in the world? OpenWRT, of course! It’s the go-to firmware replacement for a huge number of routers both for home and business use. So of course, you need to monitor it! Now routers...
A Twitter Chat on IoT and Data
Yesterday (that would be 12/14/2017) I participated in a live Twitter Chat hosted by @rackspace that they call #cloudchat. Apparently this is a regular event that they host, but this latest one was focused specifically on the Internet Of Things, which...
Architecting IoT Gateway Devices for Data Downsampling
There are all sorts of ways to architect your IoT Data Deployment, and what’s right for one enterprise will not necessarily be right for another. Depending on the size and complexity of your IoT project , there can be, of course, a...
ThingMonk 2017: Insight and Learning on IoT
Back in September, I attended the ThingMonk Conference in London. Here is a brief overview of what I learned and some of the insight I gleaned from the conference. The ThingMonk 2017 videos are starting to drop if you want to...
Using External Data Sources to Enhance Your IoT Data
I write a lot about IoT data, and what to do with it. (Hint: Store it in InfluxDB, of course!) But there’s more to making your IoT data useful than just storing it, analyzing it, and visualizing itwhich is so far...