Collecting data in the cloud

Now that we have data flowing into our AWS account, we can process and store that data practically. Figure 4.11 illustrates the process and services we will use for this part of the architecture:

Figure 4.11 – Capturing data in AWS

We will look at two simple ways to start collecting and processing data, putting together the initial stages of a data lake and storing data persistently and efficiently in a simple time series database for quick and easy visualization.

Cloud data ingestion

As you have seen, getting data using LoRaWAN is not very difficult. Once the gateways and sensors are created and configured, the data will flow automatically. Remember that we took two paths to show that there are alternatives available for this option. One option was using AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN directly to send data. This option works out of the box once things have been set up.

Another option was to configure and use TTN...