InfluxDB IoT dev guide

Introduction

Notice

🚧 This guide is a work-in-progress.

This guide is for developers looking to write Internet-of-Things applications using the InfluxDB platform. InfluxDB provides an API for programmatically writing, querying, and managing time series data.

We’ll describe the concepts, architecture, functionality, needed to build an IoT times series application. Then we construct the code, piece by piece.

Who should read this guide

Anyone interested in building web applications for IoT and times series data collection.

This guide is targeted toward moderately experienced developers (Those who have a built a web application before, know some JavaScript, or have coded with APIs), although beginners should be able to learn from it as well!

How to use this guide

The guide is written to be read from beginning to end, but can be browsed as well. You’ll want to get the example application source code. The code for this application is meant to be read with this guide. We'll walk through writing the most important bits of the code, but some assembly is required. We provide the example application as a reference implementation.