Video: Integration of InfluxDB & Grafana onto an edge device
Explore the possibilities of using Open Source Software as a low cost historian where commercial options may be cost prohibitive.
Learning objectives
- Understand how to install InfluxDB, Grafana & Node-RED as Docker containers
- Learn how to create a database in InfluxDB
- Learn how to connect a data source to Grafana
- Use Node-RED to control the publishing of measurements to InfluxDB
- Understand how to ceate a simple web dashboard in Grafana
Explore the possibilities of using Open Source Software as a low cost historian where commercial options may be cost prohibitive. Installation and configuration will be covered as well as an example implementation of Node-RED to organize ModbusTCP data into easy-to-use data structures that are logged to the historian. Finally, the creation of simple Grafana dashboards will be demonstrated to complete the solution.
Presenter:
Kurt Braun
Kurt Braun is an Applications Engineer who works with WAGO’s customers to help develop solutions to meet their IIoT and Edge computing needs. With over 15 years’ experience in controls, 10 of that with WAGO, he has a deep understanding of IT & OT systems.
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