Design Your Data Model
Follow a Best-Practices Methodology to Create an IoT Data Model
Guide Concept
This project will introduce the process of taking your IoT solution from concept to design.
Following the steps in this guide, you will create a solution that doesn’t need to be constantly revamped, by creating a comprehensive Data Model before starting to build and test your solution.
We will teach you how to utilize a few proposed best practices for designing the ThingWorx Data Model and provide some prescriptive methods to help you generate a high-quality framework that meets your business needs.

Guide Info
Level | Intermediate |
Est. Time | 60 Minutes |
Published | Mar 18, 2021 |
Author | Jason Wyatt |
You'll learn how to
- Create user stories
- Identify endpoints in your system
- Break down your Data Model using an Entity Relationship Diagram
- Decide when to use Thing Templates vs Thing Shapes vs directly-instantiated Things
Things used in this guide
Software components:
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ThingWorx Foundation
Previous knowledge
Design Your Data Model
Outline
This guide is part of a Learning Path. We've curated other guides relevant to this one to help you learn and get up to speed as quickly as possible.
Learning Path Overview
Design and Implement Data Models to Enable Predictive Analytics
Design and implement your data model, create logic, and operationalize an analytics model.
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