Altair SmartWorks IoT AnythingDB beta enables you to create digital models of the
assets that define your smart connected ecosystem.
Overview
AnythingDB beta is a flexible, secure database that enables you to create a digital
model for a smart connected ecosystem.
It helps capture and access metadata for devices, processes, users, tasks, or any
other entity considered in your application.
AnythingDB beta follows the Web of Things (WoT) standards defined by the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) for the interoperability of different IoT platforms and application
domains.
AnythingDB beta contains following features:
Every Thing: enables you to define the entities in the smart connected
ecosystem
Models: templates to ease the process of defining new Things
Structure: group your Assets (Things) in a logical way and define relations
between them
Custom Queries: perform custom queries in your database
Comparison from the Original AnythingDB
Main changes from the previous DB:
Things
No longer need to belong to Categories
Can belong to multiple categories but just ONE of those categories can have
a Model or Model + Version assigned
Properties History
The previous data history is replaced by the properties-history. Before, the
data history allowed you to send data in any format but to make it
consistent with the W3C and to make us of all the new capabilities of the
new Database, we have transformed it to the Properties-History. With this
new implementation you can now easily access the historical data for
specific properties as well as filtering by a chosen date range
Models
Belong to the Space, not to specific Categories
Can be applied to multiple Categories or Things
Categories
Can be defined:
Without a Model assigned: you can group Things with different
schemas
With a Model assigned: you can group Things with the same Model but
different Versions of this Model
With a Model and a specific Version assigned: you can group Things
with a specific Model and Version
Can have links to other Categories, to establish relationships between the
Things inside those Categories linked.
Watch the video below for more information about
AnythingDB:
Figure 1.