InfluxDB for WattDepot 3.0

[Philip Johnson]

Here's an interesting backendDB possibility for sensor data:

http://influxdb.org/

[Yongwen Xu]

found this discussion about influxdb:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676220

seems to be in very early stage but seems like a cool and promising idea.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Philip Johnson <philipm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's an interesting backendDB possibility for sensor data:

http://influxdb.org/

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[Yongwen Xu]

looks like InfluxDB has a good set of features, may be worth to give a try now?

https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.9/introduction/overview.html

[Philip Johnson]

I agree!  It looks like it does interpolation for us, for example.  

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 6:48:05 PM UTC-10, yongwen wrote:

looks like InfluxDB has a good set of features, may be worth to give a try now?

https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.9/introduction/overview.html


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Yongwen Xu <yongw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> found this discussion about influxdb:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676220
>
> seems to be in very early stage but seems like a cool and promising idea.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Philip Johnson <philipm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Here's an interesting backendDB possibility for sensor data:
>>
>> http://influxdb.org/
>>
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[Robert Brewer]

InfluxDB definitely looks cool. But is this what WattDepot needs most?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Philip Johnson <philipm...@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree!  It looks like it does interpolation for us, for example.  

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 6:48:05 PM UTC-10, yongwen wrote:

looks like InfluxDB has a good set of features, may be worth to give a try now?

https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.9/introduction/overview.html


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Yongwen Xu <yongw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> found this discussion about influxdb:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676220
>
> seems to be in very early stage but seems like a cool and promising idea.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Philip Johnson <philipm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Here's an interesting backendDB possibility for sensor data:
>>
>> http://influxdb.org/
>>
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[Philip Johnson]

On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 6:22:34 AM UTC-10, Robert Brewer wrote:

InfluxDB definitely looks cool. But is this what WattDepot needs most?

Cam and I had a discussion about this yesterday, and we think InfluxDB is not what WattDepot needs most, at least at the moment. 

Instead, we're working on a new "dashboard" for Hale Aloha energy usage.  Basically, there will be a simple Java process that extracts selected data and analyses from the server and puts it into a set of MongoDB collections.  This MongoDB instance is accessed by a Meteor app to provide:

* current power

* energy trends (tower-level: last day, last week, last month), 

* heat maps (lounge-level), 

* "notifications" (of anomalous events), 

* sensor status.  

Authentication will be via UH CAS. Uses Bootstrap and UI is focused on mobile-first. Since it's Meteor, UI is updated as soon as data appears in MongoDB (i.e. no refreshing needed, no request-response, the "real-time web").  

We are focusing development energy on this application right now because UH is making another push to install energy meters across campus and I have been quietly pushing for the meters to be opened up for access by WattDepot sensors.  I believe the best way to make that happen is to provide a live demo of what we can already do with Hale Aloha meters. 

Philip

[Robert Brewer]

That sounds awesome!

Another issue I just realized: is there a PaaS platform that provides cloud-hosted InfluxDB? If not, then self-hosting WattDepot would be the only option with InfluxDB, or IaaS solution.

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[Yongwen Xu]

InfluxDB does have a hosting (paid) option: https://customers.influxdb.com/
Heroku supports Go now, it might be possible to deploy the open source
influxDB on Heroku or maybe to google cloud?

Here is another interesting cloud-based time serious DB:
https://www.tempoiq.com/features/

and the documentation seems to be of good value for design purpose:
https://app.tempoiq.com/docs/html/index.html

At least, it shows greater needs for services like WattDepot :)