Company
Date Published
Nov. 11, 2021
Author
Jay Clifford
Word count
1899
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The article discusses how IoT specialists can use InfluxDB's geodata tools to enhance monitoring and response times for emergency generators in remote regions during a power shortage. Geodata is described as comprising two forms of geographical data, spatial and spatial-temporal. The solution involves using Flux to prepare the data and then visualizing it within InfluxDB Cloud's Map panel or Grafana's Geomap panel. The author also proposes a feature request for adding static geodata and suggests a hybrid approach of combining time series and relational storage.