Glossary

ThinkIQ Product offering which takes your data — standardized and contextualized — and can aggregate and correlate it to your most important metrics.

The ThinkIQ Vision product offering generates big data where none exists, leveraging cameras and machine vision. 

ThinkIQ product offering level that moves companies past raw data to being able to explore, compare, and contextualize data from disparate systems all on one screen.

Data values that vary over time; often sensor or calculated data. Time series data is stored in the ThinkIQ Time Series Database. Each value in time is stored as a triple consisting of Value, Time and Status (a.k.a Quality).

Motivated by legacy processs historians and inspired by emerging stores for data center data, the ThinkIQ Time Series Database is a hyper-scale store specificically designed for Time Series Data.

An application that charts time series data in graphs and charts.

A type is used to define the characteristics and behavior of the data for specific objects. Types allow a user to define characteristics and behavior of an object once, then reuse the type on all instances of the same object. See also Introduction to Modeling 

A utility that provides an easy way to accomplish repeatable tasks such as browsing the Model (Model Browser) or setting a time period (Duration Picker)

User Groups are collections of users who perform the same tasks on the platform. User Groups are hierarchical: if a user is in a group that is a child of another group, all rights of the parent propagate to the child. 

Time series data that includes values, timestamps and statuses, specifically for the use in a Trend, a script, or in building an expression.