The advantage of a large amount of data indicating whether a status has been reached always comes with a small challenge. The Time Series Data Service is ideal for displaying time series data – but what if you want to send a status that only appears irregularly and then only with a 1 and a 0?

Statuses can also be sent in a so-called double word and interpreted in the Time Series Data Service – with onboard means.

Advantage for you: You can send 32 different statuses with a single metric – very convenient!

For a better explanation, here is an example:

You are monitoring the status of a pump, where 1 = pump running and 0 = pump not running. You can now send the status every 5 seconds, or only when there is a change.

In the most complex case, however, you have not just one pump, but 30 – which would normally also mean that you send 30 metrics to Proficloud.io.

This is illogical and certainly a “no go” for you, as you only want to monitor the status and not analyze time series data.

This status can also be “packaged” in a single metric, in the manner of a double-word value. In this way, a metric can provide information about 32 different pumps – that sounds better, doesn’t it?

A metric value could then look like this, for example: 192841.

In the Time Series Data Service, we now “only” have to break down the value into individual bits. This is relatively easy in the query so that we can display the values in the dashboards and use them in alerts. (Spoiler alert: We have also prepared this so that you can get started within 5 minutes).

For said value, Bit 1, 3, 6, 8, 12,13,14,15 and 17 would be activated – or to stay with our example: Pumps 1, 3, 6, 8,12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are currently active. All other monitored pumps are not active – that’s easy, isn’t it?

How do you get to the dashboard?

We are happy to provide you with the dashboard as a free download. This is available here

What exactly is a double word?

A double word is a data unit in computer science. It is twice a word (word) and usually corresponds to 32 bits.

A “word” consists of 2 bytes, with each byte containing 8 bits. This means that 1 WORD = 2 BYTE = 16 BITS. A double word consists of two words, which in turn each consist of 2 bytes and the bytes in turn each consist of 8 bits. So, 1 DWORD = 2 WORD = 4 BYTE = 32 BITS.

Are you interested?

We are always ready to show this and of course other use cases live – just get in contact!