Questions tagged [semantics]

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Semantics in IoT and providing better context for data collection

I keep reading the following every now and then: By 2020, there will be almost 50 billion nodes connected to the Internet making IoT an important part of life (paraphrasing here) But even if I scale down to just 50 different sensor nodes in a…
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Adding Metadata within MQTT client in order to be available for querying in InfluxDB

Scenario I wish to deploy sensor nodes that publish sensor data to a central MQTT Broker and then send this information to InfluxDB. Requirements Adding metadata to the Sensor nodes whilst publishing information to the broker. This requirement comes…
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Does SenML provide any fields that describe the sensor itself?

I am trying to look into the aspect of sending meaningful information from sensor nodes with the whole field of IoT. Here, meaningful being context-aware. If I send information from a temperature sensor, it might not be enough just to send the…
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