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by ZephyrBlu 1344 days ago
What is that amount of data used for?

Is it along the lines of “we want to collect all the data we can in case we want to use or analyze it at some point”, or are there real use cases?

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For IIoT, there's digital twins, machine health, sensor data aggregation, and a lot more. While a lot of it can be classified as "write once, read hardly ever," it is vital for triggers, alarms, real-time failure and security alerts, and, eventually being forwarded over to analytics systems for longer-term trends.