Analytics
Predictive Analytics Using a Time Series Database
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Processing time-stamped data at high speed and volume, a time series database is particularly suited for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance. Predictive analytics harnesses the power...
Hiding Complexity with Custom Functions: Calculating Heat Index
Have you ever watched the local weather or The Weather Channel and heard them announce the temperature, and then the “Heat Index”? Or how hot it feels outside? At least here in the United States, and especially in the South, it’s...
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...
Top 3 Requirements for a SaaS Pricing Engine
Whether you have an existing offering, or about to roll out a new offering, the SaaS Pricing Engine is critical to its success. Price it too low and you might have negative margins, or price it too high and the margins look...
The Smart Way to Collect IoT Data for Home Automation
No matter how many customers I talk to, I am still pleasantly surprised at the interesting products they develop and equally surprised at the creative ways that they incorporate InfluxData components into their solutions! One example of such creativity is with...