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What is time series data? | InfluxData's Brian Gilmore | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 13 Sept 2022 · 27m

What this episode covers

Brian Gilmore, Director of IoT and Emerging Technologies at InfluxData, explains the fundamentals of time series data and its critical role in IoT analytics. He discusses how InfluxDB serves as a scalable time series database for both edge and cloud environments, enabling use cases like predictive maintenance through pattern matching with machine learning. Gilmore also addresses industry challenges, emphasizing that successful IoT adoption requires solving specific operational problems rather than starting with technology, and highlights the importance of interoperability and data ops in modern architectures.

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InfluxData, Splunk, AWS, Kepware, HighByte
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InfluxDB, Telegraf

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