Creating instances of assets and adding time series data

In this section, we will build a Node.js application that simulates reading of time series data from sensors. To store the data, we will use the InfluxDB time series database.

For building the application, we will need the following software:

• Node.js 6+ (https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
• restify (https://www.npmjs.com/package/restify)
• node-influx (https://www.npmjs.com/package/influx)
• slack-incoming-webhook (https://www.npmjs.com/package/slack-incoming-webhook)
• Docker (https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/

To build a Node.js application that simulates reading of time series data from sensors, proceed as follows:

1. Create a package.json file, describing software dependencies. If you use a cloud, specify localhost and mydb as the credentials for the host and database accordingly:

{
  "name": "timeseries...