Supercharge Your IoT Devices
Ulf Seijmer
IoT optimist ·?CINO Induo · CTO/co-founder AKKR8 · EUTECH Technology Council | I help companies grow through IoT - ???+46-76-5755751
In the world of IoT, monitoring device performance is crucial for a seamless user experience. However, have you ever considered the data your device collects and whether it's all necessary? Lets explore the importance of filtering your device's data and leveraging cloud updates to optimize performance. Discover how these simple steps can significantly enhance your device's efficiency while conserving resources.
Filtering Data for Improved Performance
Filtering your device's data can profoundly impact its performance and resource utilization. Consider this: if your device frequently connects with a 90% signal quality throughout the day, it may be worthwhile not to test the signal strength during the next 24 hours. By doing so, you can filter out unnecessary data and optimize your connection sequence (it will happen faster, thus saving energy at the device). This simple step improves your device's performance, saves valuable storage space, and reduces data usage. It will all be positive for the environment.
Leveraging Cloud Updates with callbacks
Manually adjusting device settings can be time-consuming, especially when dealing with multiple devices or limited resources. However, a more efficient way to optimize your device is to leverage cloud updates through, for example, MQTT callbacks. Using this approach, you can remotely modify how often your device updates and filter its data without manual intervention. This method is particularly beneficial for devices with limited storage space or processing power, as it allows necessary updates without excessive data or memory usage.
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The Power of Optimization
Monitoring your IoT device's performance is crucial, but optimizing its data and settings can take it to the next level. By temporarily switching off unnecessary functions in your device or filter out unnecessary data plus leveraging cloud updates with MQTT callbacks, you can significantly enhance its efficiency. These optimization techniques not only improve performance but also save valuable resources. Remember, even small changes can yield substantial improvements in IoT device performance.
To ensure optimal performance of your IoT devices, monitoring their performance, signal quality, and battery life is essential. However, taking a step further and filtering unnecessary data can significantly enhance their efficiency. By leveraging updates from the cloud, you can remotely modify device settings and optimize data without manual intervention. Small changes like temporarily switching off your device or adjusting update frequency can lead to substantial improvements. Stay connected, stay informed, and unlock the true potential of your IoT devices.
Mobile IoT Schw?rmer, CoAP/DTLS 1.2 CID Pionier
1 年There is also an idea of an "alive" or "heartbeat" message, which value is to demonstrate the system health. Not that one of the components in the long chain of components is unaware off when an alarm needs to be transmitted. In cellular IoT it's not only your components, which needs to be healthy, there are a lot more and you need some kind of monitoring for them as well. It's for sure an application domain decision, if power consumption must be considered more than the reliability of the "overall system". some application may not suffer, if a sensor's chain isn't healty for a week, others fail, if that last just for an hour.
Founder, CEO Fuelics
1 年Ulf Seijmer we apply the same philosophy on our edge computing battery operated technology stack, minimizing data throughput into some KBs per month (Kilobytes!), while sending alarms and notifications, whereas the data series will be send once per day arbitrarily. Lastly our remote management stack allows seamless reconfiguration of sensor measuring or transmittting properties, eg in parking sensors we deactivate them at night (wherever this is applicable), or for fuel sensors we minimize attachments once per week during the summer period (where burners are switched off). The idea is be able to sustain battery operation for many years without loosing measurement and notification agility. Of course as you say, you need to switch on and off the modems and all energy intensive componentes. As an example, the cost of energy measuring is almost 1000times less than attaching. Therefore, you do not transmit unless there is need!