What Is the Internet of Things?  If you have been following the tech news even a little bit over the last few years, you’ve heard of the Internet of Things. The IoT, we’re told, is supposed to revolutionize the way we interact with technology and will fundamentally change the way we live our lives. As figures compiled by Statista show,...

Smart City A “smart city” is a city in which the physical infrastructures (i.e. buildings, roads, and facilities that control power, water, and gas) are connected to the internet, where data is communicated instantaneously to provide real-time urban services to residents and visitors. To achieve this, a number of sensors are attached to the facilities, which are connected...

DBMS For Processing IoT Data (Image source:  https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/05/25/05/27/network-782707_1280.png) The Problems With Handling Large Amounts Of Data In Real Time As previously mentioned, more devices and more sensors mean you’ll start to generate incredible amounts of data. To compound the problem even further, continued storage of data for analysis and historical record means you’ll only ever have more data to...

The Internet of things is a network of physical devices--peripherals, appliances, vehicles, wearable, and other items--embedded with electronics, software, and sensors that enable these objects to connect and exchange data over the internet or, sometimes, a private network. These devices often include sensors, digitally controlled actuators, and communication terminals especially engineered for physical, moving objects. The ability to...

IoT data explosion and changes in  IIoT market With the explosion of the Internet, the development of sensor technology and the technological advances in big data processing, the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has started to spread rapidly since the 2000s. In addition, the same trend has occurred in industry and the term and Industrial Internet of...

Concept and History of Historian Historian is a term used to refer to a database that manages sensor data (or tag data) generated from manufacturing and production sites. Perhaps, considering the meaning of the term “History”, it can be understood as a software with underlying functions that allow viewing historical data over time. This historian software stores time...