Eclipse Hono integrates with InfluxDB

Overview

Eclipse Hono abstracts telemetry ingestion from edge devices regardless of protocol. Once data flows through Hono, it can be directed to InfluxDB for time-series storage and analysis using Hono's northbound AMQP/Kafka APIs.

Integration Architecture

1. Devices connect to Hono via MQTT, CoAP, AMQP or HTTP
2. Hono forwards normalized telemetry messages over AMQP 1.0 or Kafka
3. A consumer application (e.g. a Spring Boot or Quarkus service) reads from Hono and writes to InfluxDB using the InfluxDB client library
4. Grafana visualizes the InfluxDB data

Use Cases

• Industrial monitoring: sensor data from PLCs → Hono → InfluxDB → Grafana
• Predictive maintenance: vibration and temperature telemetry normalized by Hono, stored in InfluxDB for anomaly detection
• Energy management: smart-meter data ingested via CoAP or MQTT through Hono, persisted in InfluxDB

Getting Started

1. Deploy Hono with the desired protocol adapters
2. Register devices in Hono's device registry
3. Configure an AMQP or Kafka consumer application
4. Use the InfluxDB client to batch-write telemetry points
5. Set up retention policies and continuous queries in InfluxDB