Design Your 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	May 09, 2019
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

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:

ThingWorx Foundation

Previous knowledge:

Data Model Introduction

Outline

Step 1: Data Model Methodology
Step 2: User Stories
Step 3: Data Sources - Thing List
Step 4: Data Sources - Component Breakout
Step 5: Data Sources - Thing-Component Matrix
Step 6: Model Breakdown
Step 7: Prioritize
Step 8: Largest Group
Step 9: Iterate
Step 10: Validate
Step 11: Next Steps