Monitoring Your Wireless Interfaces

This post was originally posted on the InfluxData Blog. If you’ve followed my last few posts, you’ll see that I’ve been waist-deep in routers and wireless stuff. I’m building a larger, more complicated ‘reference architecture’ for IoT monitoring with InfluxDB, and to do that, I’m using all sorts of different boxes. I’m re-using my Pine-64 box (see here) and I wanted to be able to monitor the stats of the Wireless interface.

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January 16, 2018 Read
Building An IoT Gateway Device for local Alerting and Data Downsampling

There are all sorts of ways to architect your IoT 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 lot of components. One of the more universal architectures is to deploy sensor hubs or gateway devices to collect data from a number of sensor nodes and then forward that data on to an upstream data collection system for the enterprise.

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December 18, 2017 Read
Monitoring OpenWRT with Telegraf

This post was originally published on InfluxData’s blog. 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 are, strictly speaking, an IoT device, but hey, it is a (relatively) small, embedded device that is ubiquitous, and really deserves some attention.

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December 18, 2017 Read
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 lot of components. One of the more universal architectures is to deploy sensor hubs or IoT gateway devices to collect data from a number of sensor nodes and then forward that data on to an upstream data collection system for the enterprise.

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December 14, 2017 Read
Time to Awesome with InfluxDB

InfluxData has a thing about Time to Awesome™. So much so that they Trademarked it. No, seriously, they did. And they mean it. So let’s go from Zero to Awesome! We are singularly focused on reducing the Time to Awesome™, we truly care about helping developers and businesses get to results faster with less complexity and less code. That’s directly from the About section of their website and they really do mean it!

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December 1, 2017 Read
Time for a Twitter Transition

I’ve been on Twitter for a long time. A really long time. Longer than my actual twitter profile would indicate. (I think I first joined in late 2006.) At one point, I had over 5,000 followers, but, well, basically twitter’s security and policing was so atrocious that, for reasons of personal safety, I quit twitter and deleted my account. I was gone for about 2 years. I came back and started fresh in 2012.

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October 25, 2017 Read
Go From Zero to Awesome in 5 Minutes or Less

This post was originally published on InfluxData’s blog on 2017-10-20. We here at InfluxData have a thing about Time to Awesome™. So much so that we Trademarked it. No, seriously, we did. And we mean it. So let’s go from Zero to Awesome! We are singularly focused on reducing the Time to Awesome, we truly care about helping developers and businesses get to results faster with less complexity and less code.

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October 20, 2017 Read
ThingMonk 2017

Note: This is a post from my archives. I wrote it in 2017, and it was posted on the InfluxData Blog. Back in September 2017, 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 get the full scoop. Background The annual1 ThingMonk IoT conference was held in Shoreditch, London from September 11 – 13, 2017 with InfluxData sponsoring the video recordings.

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October 20, 2017 Read
Time Series Data

I’m just going to drop this here. Don’t need to say much about it, as it’s pretty thorough. Go read it!

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September 27, 2017 Read
Getting Started with the Renesas IoT Fast Prototyping Kit

I’ve been meaning to get to this for a couple of weeks, and have been waylaid by a bunch of other things that kept popping up, but I’ve been working away with these, and thought I’d post at least an initial post about these kits. Renesas was kind enough to give me both theS3 IoT Fast Prototyping Kit and the S7 Starter Kit, both of which are really really nice boards for doing IoT prototyping.

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July 25, 2017 Read
InfluxDB on ARTIK-520 Redux

Last week I wrote a piece on installing and running the InfluxDB time series database, ingestion, dashboard and action packages on your ARTIK-520, but I need to update that post, and it’s a bit more than just a few edits. Influx Data supplies the Linux binaries as packages for most of the major distributions, but the ARM distribution is just as a binary, with no package installation scripts, etc. I thought I’d show you how (and why) I fixed that for my ARTIK-520.

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July 20, 2017 Read
Running InfluxDB on an ARTIK-520

Let’s face it, the IoT is about data. I said it just a few weeks ago. It’s about collecting data. Lots of data. But it’s actually about a lot more than just collecting data. Simply collecting data doesn’t really get you anywhere if all you do is collect it. To be useful, IoT data has to be relevant, accurate, and actionable. That last part is the key, really. Actionable data. In order to make your data actionable, you have to be able to analyze it, in real time preferably.

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July 14, 2017 Read