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.

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Guide Info

Level Intermediate
Est. Time 60 Minutes
Published Mar 18, 2021
Author Jason Wyatt
Build

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
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Things used in this guide

Environment:

This guide may be completed within any environment where you have access to the ThingWorx Foundation server.

This includes both the hosted evaluation server, as well as the downloadable trial.

Software components:
Previous knowledge
Data Model Introduction

Design Your Data Model

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