Adapting JSON Structures for Real-Time Aggregates: A Community Solution

In a recent Timescale Community Slack discussion, Dustin Sorensen shared an innovative solution for efficiently managing and aggregating data from multiple sensors or IoT devices without the need to create a dedicated column for each sensor. The solution involves creating custom aggregate functions that allow for the aggregation of any JSONB values, providing flexibility to handle both numeric and non-numeric data within the same column. This approach eliminates the need for multiple columns for each data type, streamlining the data aggregation process. Dustin's solution demonstrates the power of TimescaleDB's extensibility and the innovative spirit of the community.