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Anyone who enjoys watching science fiction movies will be familiar with this scenario, in which people of the future live in three-dimensional space with no ground and travel by high-speed orbit and aircraft. Replicants, robots and artificial intelligence of all kinds are everywhere. They can be helpers and even girlfriends.
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), this is becoming a reality. According to a Gartner research report, by 2020, there will be 20 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things worldwide. The core of the Internet of Things is data.
Ali Cloud launched HiTSDB +IoT suite for the five pain points
With the growth of devices, the problems encountered by iot companies are becoming more and more obvious. Mainly in the following aspects:
• Large number of equipment, diversified product types, difficult management certification. • The communication between devices and services increases rapidly, causing the communication system to encounter bottlenecks and unable to ensure stability. • Security problems are serious. There is no authentication mechanism for device and data transmission, which causes data leakage and threatens production security. • Iot devices continue to generate large amounts of data at high frequency, and storage costs are rising rapidly. • Business needs to mine data value, but due to the large number of equipment and long time span of analysis, time analysis is inefficient, which hinders the value of data timeliness.
Ali cloud this IoT enterprises face a series of problems, and provides the HiTSDB + IoT suite of integration solutions, to support equipment fast on the cloud, efficient equipment management, data security, low cost mass data storage, real-time control equipment status, quickly find the data value, etc., can make more business quickly IoT embrace cloud computing.
The HiTSDB +IoT suite is specially launched by Alibaba Cloud for developers in the field of Internet of Things. It aims to help developers build a data channel with strong security performance to facilitate two-way communication between terminals (such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices or smart appliances, etc.) and the cloud. Global multi-node deployment enables massive devices around the world to access Ali Cloud IoT Hub safely and with low delay, providing multiple protection to ensure device cloud security, and supporting long-term connections of hundreds of millions of devices and concurrent messages in terms of performance.
“What users need is more intelligent iot tools. The iot suite released by Aliyun provides one-stop hosting service. Users can realize collection + computing + storage and other full-stack services only by configuring rules on the Web through the rule engine. There is no need to purchase a separate server to deploy a distributed architecture.” HiTSDB said.
Users only need to develop based on the SDK provided by IoT Hub to realize large-scale device access to the cloud. After access, the cloud can provide device management services.
Adding data permission ensures that the cost of compressed storage can be reduced by 90%
The iot suite manages device status and provides a tree-structured device management model. In addition, the device permission granularity service ensures that devices or applications can operate resources only when they have corresponding access permissions. With the IoT Hub specification engine configuration, users can easily write data to the HiTSDB high-performance time series database without the need for application development.
HiTSDB is a high-performance, low cost, stable and reliable online temporal database services, to provide efficient, speaking, reading and writing, storage of high compression ratio, time-series data interpolation and aggregation calculations, etc., are widely used in the Internet of things (IoT) equipment monitoring and control system, enterprise energy management system (EMS), production safety monitor and control system, electric power test system, etc.
HiTSDB provides one-million-level sequential data second-level writing, high compression ratio and low-cost storage, pre-drop accuracy, interpolation, multi-dimensional aggregation computing, and query result visualization. It can solve the problems of high storage cost and low efficiency of write and query analysis caused by the large number of equipment collection points and high data collection frequency.
HiTSDB can support tens of millions of devices to write data at the same time. Using the high compression technology of HiTSDB, the average storage space used by a single data point can be reduced to 1 or 2 bytes, which can reduce the cost by 90% and speed up data writing.
The greatest value of device data stored in HiTSDB lies in data utilization.
For HiTSDB, real-time monitoring of devices can be achieved through data extraction and monitoring of each time series. The HiTSDB can read millions of data points per second, enabling real-time data query and monitoring in a high-frequency collection period. In addition, HiTSDB’s built-in aggregator Aggrator can perform real-time aggregation calculation based on device attribute Tags without any computing logic implementation in the application layer. Meanwhile, it also supports grouping indicator statistics based on device attribute Tags to achieve data comparison of devices with different attributes.
In addition to providing efficient time series data service capabilities on the cloud, enterprises can and can use HiTSDB to realize intelligent manufacturing and smart cities by combining the big data solutions of Ali Cloud Industrial Brain and Urban Brain. Using the “edge + center” solution of HiTSDB, it can meet the requirements of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), especially the power and energy industry, local storage analysis at the edge of data, step by step data reporting, and stable data reporting of network instability and global device data monitoring and analysis at the center, and open up the data channel of the intelligent brain.
At present, Aliware has nearly 10 products open to users, covering message queue MQ, distributed database service DRDS, enterprise-level distributed application service EDAS and so on. “The continued efforts on the timing database HiTSDB represent another important direction for Aliware’s future development — the Internet of Things. We believe that breakthroughs in timing database technology will bring more imagination to autonomous driving, industrial intelligent manufacturing and smart home.” HiTSDB said.