I keep a lot of information about my house – I have had sensors and recording units in various parts of my house years, recording info through a variety of different devices.

Over the years I’ve built a number of different solutions for storing and displaying the information, and when the opportunity came up to write about a database built specifically for recording this information I jumped at the change, and this is what I came up with:

As home automation increases, so does the number of sensors recording statistics and information needed to feed that data. Using the Time Series Database in BlueMix makes it easy to record the time-logged data and query and report on it. In this tutorial, we’ll examine how to create, store, and, ultimately, report on information by using the Time Series Database. We’ll also use the database to correlate data points across multiple sensors to track the effectiveness of heating systems in a multi-zone house.

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