Altair IoT Studio, like most Altair products, is licensed by Altair Units (AU), a
patented, units-based subscription model for software licensing.
In the Altair Units Management section, under the Space Settings, users can set the
limits of usage for each feature in each Space. Depending on the limits established,
a number of Altair Units will be consumed. More information can be found here.
Note: The information described below applies only to Altair IoT
Studio SaaS offering.
Requirements
Before setting the limits for your Space, ensure you have met the following
requirements:
Have enough available AU. Note the AU for the IoT platform will be hosted
24-7.
Make sure you have the HWSmartWorksIoT tracking feature in your
license.
Update Altair Units Consumption
If the space is under Free Trial version, the expiration date will appear and the
option to Upgrade to commercial version will be available on the left side menu:Figure 1.
To complete the process of upgrading the space to a Commercial Version, the user
needs to link their Altair IoT Studio to their AltairOne account. After that,
increase the limits of the different features in the platform. As soon as your space
is consuming AU, the status will be upgrade to Commercial Version:Figure 2.
The Limits apply to the features described below. For additional information, click
on the tooltips available on each section.
AnythingDB
The AU consumption is calculated based on the number of devices and their
messages sent from the device to the platform per day. The Total Messages
per day is calculated by multiplying those 2 values.
Note: Payload of the message cannot exceed 5
KB.
One free month of data retention (number of months to store the data in the
platform) is provided.
Data history retention: depending on the frequency of data, the default will
be 2 or 3 months of data history retention. This limit can be extended to 8
or 9 months, depending on the frequency of the data sent.
Note: Changes to the retention period of data are not
retroactive, so if the user updates the data retention policy, it will
only affect future data and will not alter the expiration schedule of
existing data. The expiration date is based on the ingestion time (the
time the record is inserted/created).
API Requests
Every action performed in the IoT platform by interacting with IoT Studio,
or any other application that uses the platform, (for example, create a
Category, get the information inside a Category, delete a Thing inside a
Category, update the Model of a Category, and so on) is done by making API
requests.
There is a limit to the maximum number of API requests that can be done per
day (without considering the messages sent from the devices to the platform
for AnythingDB). This limit is set based on the apps but can be increased by
adding more apps. Each additional app adds 1000 requests per day.
User Functions
Functions consume CPUs and memory. To properly size the needed resources,
the following is estimated:
One CPU enables you to build four Functions with simple logic using Python
or GO. Therefore, the number of Functions can be increased by four at a
time, which would increase the available CPU. Note you will be able to set
exactly the needed CPUs per Function when building them.
Memory is by default set to 200 MiB. If desired, it can be increased to 500
MiB.
Stream Processing
The number of seats represents the number of users that can access
simultaneously the features under Stream Processing.
Real Time Visualization
The number of seats represents the number of users that can access
simultaneously the features under Real Time Visualization. A differentiation
between designers (people with full privileges to edit, read, delete) and
viewers (people authorized to just read) is made.
EdgeOps
The number of edge nodes represents the number of Fleet Assets created in
Altair IoT Studio to gather and process data at the edge.
Identity
The number of developers represents the number of users that can access
simultaneously the Space.
