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The Power of Time Series Data in IoT | InfluxData's Evan Kaplan | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 28 Jan 2025 · 16m · Episode 368

What this episode covers

Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, explains that time series data is the foundational language of IoT, representing timestamped telemetry from sensors that enables the transition from monitoring to autonomous systems. He details the specific engineering challenges of managing this data, including high ingestion rates, cardinality explosion, and the need for immediate read/write capabilities in operational contexts. Kaplan highlights InfluxData's architecture, which optimizes for these three pillars, and discusses the emerging trend of integrating time series data with machine learning to build self-perfecting, intelligent physical systems like self-driving cars and smart grids.

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
InfluxData, Tesla, iPass, SonicWall, Dell
Products
InfluxDB, Powerwall
Also
Oracle, Informix, MySQL, Cassandra, Apache Data Fusion, Fluentd, Telegraf

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