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Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

By : Andrew Minteer
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Book Image

Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

5 (1)
By: Andrew Minteer

Overview of this book

We start with the perplexing task of extracting value from huge amounts of barely intelligible data. The data takes a convoluted route just to be on the servers for analysis, but insights can emerge through visualization and statistical modeling techniques. You will learn to extract value from IoT big data using multiple analytic techniques. Next we review how IoT devices generate data and how the information travels over networks. You’ll get to know strategies to collect and store the data to optimize the potential for analytics, and strategies to handle data quality concerns. Cloud resources are a great match for IoT analytics, so Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and PTC ThingWorx are reviewed in detail next. Geospatial analytics is then introduced as a way to leverage location information. Combining IoT data with environmental data is also discussed as a way to enhance predictive capability. We’ll also review the economics of IoT analytics and you’ll discover ways to optimize business value. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to handle scale for both data storage and analytics, how Apache Spark can be leveraged to handle scalability, and how R and Python can be used for analytic modeling.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

The ThingWorx overview


The company PTC, which has a long history in creating software for the world of machines talking to machines, developed ThingWorx. It is an application development environment for building IoT solutions. It is a software platform that abstracts IoT devices and related components and services into model-based development objects. You install the software on your own hardware (or using cloud providers virtual instances).

The platform makes it easy to model your devices, the data, and has the ability to quickly create dashboards through a web-based application. No code is required. ThingWorx is also extensible to third-party components through its marketplace. This makes it easy to add in a third-party functionality without special configuration. It can also integrate with both AWS and Azure IoT hub services.

There are multiple components of ThingWorx. ThingWorx Foundation is the center of the platform. It is divided into three areas, as shown in the following image:

  • ThingWorx...