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

- Show: [IoT For All Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast)
- Published: 2025-01-28
- Length: 16m
- Episode: 368
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things
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## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=4) Introduction: Evan Kaplan and InfluxData
- [1:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=67) Defining Time Series Data in IoT
- [3:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=236) Challenges: Ingestion, Cardinality, and Eviction
- [6:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=365) InfluxData's Architecture: Ingest, Organize, Query
- [8:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=494) Advice for IoT Architects and Scaling
- [9:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=564) Operational Time Series and AI Integration
- [12:19](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=739) Trends: From Monitoring to Autonomy
- [13:39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2025-01-28-the-power-of-time-series-data-in-iot-influxdatas-evan-kaplan-internet-of-things#t=819) Future Outlook: Sensors and Physical World Monitoring

## Topics

- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Sensors & measurement in products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sensors)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [PCB design & layout](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pcb-design)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- InfluxData (company)
- InfluxDB (product)
- Oracle (other)
- Informix (other)
- MySQL (other)
- Cassandra (other)
- Tesla (company)
- Powerwall (product)
- iPass (company)
- SonicWall (company)
- Dell (company)
- Apache Data Fusion (other)
- Fluentd (other)
- Telegraf (other)

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