In a project led by Herrenknecht AG, an industrial technology leader in mechanized tunneling systems, a team of engineers aimed to build an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform to provide real-time data insights for their massive tunnel boring machines. These machines have thousands of sensors generating high-velocity data and require current and accurate information to operate safely and efficiently. Herrenknecht selected InfluxDB as the central time series storage database due to its ability to handle edge device data collection, offer open source and enterprise versions, and support Windows. The team initially installed the open-source version on the machines and later built a cloud ecosystem using InfluxDB OSS, which reduced costs by sending clean data to the cloud instead of storing it locally. After reaching 100 instances, they migrated from open-source to InfluxDB Enterprise to improve reliability and stability, resulting in cost savings and better performance for their IIoT platform.