Architecting the Industrial Internet

Data management

IIoT solutions collect potentially huge volumes of data, typically at high velocity, and can also include data from traditional or legacy systems. This integration of data can consist of time series data from sensors and device data, including logs, and structured and unstructured data. Structured data is typically data from traditional enterprise or departmental software applications with known predefined data structures, or schemas. Unstructured data includes data with unknown or irregular and varying structures. These can include text from social media and digital images. Integrating these data sources can be challenging, but also can provide the basis for more effective monitoring, identification of problem areas, targeted ...