IoT & Connectivity Tips

Hello!   We will host a live Expert Session: "Understanding ThingWorx Navigate Licensing" on February 11th, 10h EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Understanding ThingWorx Navigate Licensing Date and Time: February 11th, 10h EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Christoph Braeuchle, Emily Larkin and Steve Scheib - ThingWorx Navigate PM team Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/understanding-thingworx-navigate-licensing     Description: ThingWorx Navigate licensing opens many users a way to access PLM data and functionality at an attractive price tag when they don’t need to use the full power of Windchill functionality. This licensing and packaging have changed over the past 1.5 years and this is the perfect time to share an update on available license types and answer essential questions like... Which license types do my end-users really need? What capabilities are pro

We will host a live Expert Session: "Thingworx Mashup 101 - Do's and Don'ts" on February 24th, 13h30 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thingworx Mashup 101 - Do's and Don'ts Date and Time: February 24th, 13h30 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Aanjan Ravi - Technical Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/events/thingworx-mashup-101   Description: This session covers the most common and useful tips about how to correctly use Mashup builder, Widgets and Layouts – and what to avoid -  to create applications with good principles of UI/UX and easier to maintain.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Ex

I have created a mashup which allows you to easily use and test the Prescriptions functionality in Thingworx Analytics (TWA). This is where you choose 1 or more fields for optimization, and TWA tells you how to adjust those fields to get an optimal outcome.   The functionality is based on a public sample dataset for concrete mixtures, full details are included in the attached documentation.  

Here is a tutorial to explain the process of uploading a PMML file from an external system to Thingworx Analytics. The tutorial steps are explained in the attached PDF and all referenced files can be found in the attached ZIP.  

ThingWorx DevOps with Jenkins DevOps as a topic is vast and has been addressed at many times throughout the history of the PTC Community. Previous posts address what DevOps is, teach how to make use of DevOps like a pro,  announce updates to the PTC Git Extension, and explain why this extension is so helpful to achieving continuous Git integration with ThingWorx.   This post provides a PDF guide on Jenkins integration with ThingWorx, including tutorials with detailed information on how to setup your ThingWorx instance and how to configure your Jenkins Pipeline. The PDF is listed for download separately, but it is also included in the zip with the other required files for the tutorial. The Jenkins Pipeline provided here is intended as an example / starting point for managing your DevOps in ThingWorx and can easily be extended. Please note that this Pipeline is not officially supported by PTC. 

How to Scale Vertically and Horizontally, and When to Use Sharding Written by Mike Jasperson, VP of IOT EDC   Deployment architecture describes the way in which an IOT application is deployed, or where each of the components are hosted on the network. There are deployment architecture considerations to make when scaling up an application. Each approach to deployment expansion can be described by the “eggs in a basket” analogy: vertical scale is like one person carrying a bigger basket, horizontal scale is like one person carrying more baskets, and sharding is like more than one person carrying the baskets (see below).   All of these approaches result in the eggs getting from point A to point B (they all satisfy the use case), but the simplest (vertical scale) is not necessarily the best. Sure, it makes sense on paper for one person to carry everything in one big basket, but that doesn’t ensure that all of the eggs arrive intact. Selecting the right deployment architecture i

Hi All,   We will host a live Expert Session: "Thignworx Active Active Clustering" on January 21th 8h00 EST. Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thignworx Active Active Clustering Date and Time: January 21th 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Ayush Tiwari - IoT Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts (scroll down, the session is in the bottom of the page)   Description: This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature for High Availability configuration launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release. Join us and bring your questions with you!    Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest

Hi All,   We will host a live Expert Session: "Thignworx Active Active Clustering" on January 21th 8h00 EST. Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thignworx Active Active Clustering Date and Time: January 21th 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Ayush Tiwari - IoT Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts (scroll down, the session is in the bottom of the page)   Description: This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature for High Availability configuration launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of

We will host a live Expert Session: "Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts" on January 12th 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link: Expert Session: Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts Date and Time: January 12th 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Ayush Tiwari - IoT Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’ in PTC support portal search. &nbsp

We will host a live Expert Session: "Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts" on January 12th 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link: Expert Session: Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts Date and Time: January 12th 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Ayush Tiwari - IoT Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’ in PTC support portal search. &nbsp

  Hi, everyone!   We’re actively working towards the ThingWorx 9.0 release and we’re ready to provide a sneak peek into the biggest feature of 9.0: Active-Active Clustering for High Availability configuration.   You may be wondering: doesn’t ThingWorx already offer High Availability?   Yes, ThingWorx already supports a High Availability configuration. Previous versions of ThingWorx, such as ThingWorx 8.X version releases, support Active-Passive configuration, where one “active” ThingWorx server performs all processing and maintains the live connections to other systems such as databases and connected assets. Meanwhile, in parallel, there is a second “passive” ThingWorx server that is a mirror image and regularly updated with data but does not maintain active connections to any of the other systems. If the “active” ThingWorx server fails, the “passive” ThingWorx server is made the primary server, but this can take a few minutes to establish connections to the other

Hello community,   I'm happy to announce that I released GitBackup Extension 4.1.0 with some nice help from the community (special thanks to Tanguy Parmentier who provided all the localization export functionality). Many thanks for the people who provided feedback allowing this features to be prioritized.   Version 4.1.0 brings several new features to the table: (Finally) Allows the user to specify a subset of Entities for Export Allows importing a single Entity from the Workspace, so it’s easier now to checkout a specific commit in the past and import that file version for testing. Adds the capability to Export localization tokens filtered by a specific prefix - overridable by you at export time. Adds a Log screen that contains log entries for some of the most used methods that caused silent fails. Closed remote branches are auto-pruned. Further cleans the ThingWorx XML source files, by removing the ModelPersistenceProviderPackage. The Main Mashup UI is slightly redesigned:

Hi All   Our expert session: Thingworx Flow Overview is tomorrow!!! Click the link below to register and remember to talk about it to colleagues that might benefit from its content.   Expert Session: Thingworx Flow Overview Date and Time: December 10th, 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Antony Moffa; Vinay Vaidya - Thingworx IoT Platfom Senior Directors Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    See you there!   Here are other upcoming sessions that might be of your interest: Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9 Register Here Active Active Clustering This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release Register Here

Hi All   Our expert session: Thingworx Flow Overview is tomorrow!!! Click the link below to register and remember to talk about it to colleagues that might benefit from its content.   Expert Session: Thingworx Flow Overview Date and Time: December 10th, 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Antony Moffa; Vinay Vaidya - Thingworx IoT Platfom Senior Directors Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    See you there!   Here are other upcoming sessions that might be of your interest: Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9 Register Here Active Active Clustering This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release Register Here

Create a new Thing using the Scheduler Thing Template. The Scheduler Thing will fire a ScheduledEvent Event when the configured schedule is fired. The event is automatically present and does not need to be added manually. Configuration   The Scheduler Configuration is quite straightforward and allows for an exact setup of schedule based on units of time, e.g. seconds, minutes, hours, days of week etc. It can be accessed via the Thing's Entity Configuration   Configuration allows for Changing the runAsUser context - in which the Events will be handled. The user will need visibility and permission on e.g. executing Services or depending Things, which are required to run the Service triggered by the Event. Changing the Schedule - in which time the Events will be fired (by default every minute). The schedule is displayed in CRON String notation and can be changed and viewed in detail by clicking on "More". The CRON String will be generated automatically based on the inputs

  There are times when the raw sensor readings are not directly useful for monitoring conditions on a machine. The raw data may need to be transformed before it can provide value within your monitoring applications. For example, instead of monitoring individual pressure readings reported each second, you may only be concerned with the maximum pressure reading each minute. Or, maybe you want to monitor the median value of the electrical current pulled by a machine every five seconds to smooth out the noise of raw sub-second sensor readings. Or, maybe you want to monitor if the average hourly temperature of a machine exceeds a control limit in 2 of the past 3 hours.   Let’s take the example of monitoring the max pressure of a valve reading over the past 45 seconds for your performance dashboard. How do you do it? Today, you might add a new property (e.g. “MaxPressure”) to your valve Thing. Then, you might add a subscription that triggers when the Pressure property va

Thread Safe Coding, Part 2: The Database Locker Approach and Comparison Written by Desheng Xu and edited by @vtielebein    Overview This is the second on this topic, describing an alternate approach to thread safe coding than one which requires the Java extension. The demo use case here is the same as in the previous post, and there is a section at the end comparing the two approaches.   Database Locker for Thread Safe Coding The database locker is an advanced topic, so some experience with the database thing is assumed. The following steps demonstrate how to be thread safe with a database thing.   Create New Database Instance, and New Table for counterIt is strongly recommended that a new database instance be created outside of the ThingWorx database schema. This guide will NOT include instructions to create the new database instance.Use the following SQL commands to create a new table:DROP table IF EXISTS counters; CREATE TABLE counters ( name

Since it's somewhat unclear on how to set up the reset password feature through the login form, these steps might be a little more helpful. Assuming the mail extension has already been imported into the Thingworx platform and properly configured - say, PassReset - (test with SendMessage service to verify), let's go ahead and create a new user - Blank, and a new organization that will have that user assigned as a member - Test.Let's open the configuration tab for the organization, assign the PassReset mail thing as the mail server, assign login image, style, prompt (optional), check the Allow Password Reset, then the rest looks like this:Onto the Email content part, it is not possible to save the organization as is at the moment:Clicking on the question mark for the Email content will provide the following requirements:Now this is when it might not be too clear. The tokens [[:user:]], [[:organization:]], [[:url:]] can be used in the email body and at the runtime will be replaced with th

We will host a live Expert Session: "Thingworx Flow Overview" on December 10th, 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thingworx Flow Overview Date and Time: December 10th, 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Antony Moffa; Vinay Vaidya - Thingworx IoT Platfom Senior Directors Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: Overview of Thingworx Flow, an application for integration and orchestration between systems. This will focus on use cases, main features such as triggers, connector options, main enhancements for Thingworx 9.0 and a short demonstration.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded and upcoming sessions that might be of your interest. You ca

We will host a live Expert Session: "Thingworx Flow Overview" on December 10th, 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thingworx Flow Overview Date and Time: December 10th, 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Antony Moffa; Vinay Vaidya - Thingworx IoT Platfom Senior Directors Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: Overview of Thingworx Flow, an application for integration and orchestration between systems. This will focus on use cases, main features such as triggers, connector options, main enhancements for Thingworx 9.0 and a short demonstration.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded  and upcoming sessions that might be of your interest.

Hi Community,   I've recently had a number of questions from colleagues around architectures involving MQTT and what our preferred approach was.  After some internal verification, I wanted to share an aggregate of my findings with the ThingWorx Architect and Developer Community.   PTC currently supports four methods for integrating with MQTT for IoT projects. ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector ThingWorx MQTT Extension ThingWorx Kepware Server Choice is nice, but it adds complexity and sometimes confusion.  The intent of this article is to clarify and provide direction on the subject to help others choose the path best suited for their situation.   ThingWorx MQTT Extension The ThingWorx MQTT extension has been available on the marketplace as an unsupported “PTC Labs” extension for a number of years.  Recently its status has been upgraded to “PTC Supported” and it has received some attention from R&D getting some bug fixes and security enhancements.&nbs

I've had a lot of questions over the years working with Azure IoT, Kepware, and ThingWorx that I really struggled getting answers to. I was always grateful when someone took the time to help me understand, and now it is time to repay the favour.   People ask me many things about Azure (in a ThingWorx context), and one of the common ones has been about MQTT communications from Kepware to ThingWorx using IoT Hub. Recently the topic has come up again as more and more of the ThingWorx expert community start to work with Azure IoT. Today, I took the time to build, test, validate, and share an approach and utilities to do this in cases where the Azure Industrial IoT OPC UA integration is overkill or simply a step later in the project plan. Enjoy!   End to end Integration of Kepware to ThingWorx using MQTT over Azure IoT (YoutTube 45 minute deep-dive)   ThingWorx entities for import (ThingWorx 9.0)   This approach can be quite good for a simple demo if you have a Kepware I

  The ThingWorx team would like to be one of the first to wish you a happy holiday season.   To kick it off, I’ll share the top three things we’re thankful for: Our customers—you! Thank you for all that you do. The entire team behind ThingWorx. Thank you for being such a fun team to work with! Our robust platform—recognized by Gartner as a leader in industrial IoT platforms. Launching today, 9.1 features a cornucopia of new functionality, including: Runtime support for AWS Corretto Open JDK 11, now available to help you save Oracle Java licensing costs A new Project View in Composer Pareto charts, auto refresh, pagination and chip-based data filter web components Enhancements to auditing, Thing Group UI & export to source control Asset Advisor scale improvements Operator Advisor process plan caching Azure AD integration with Solution Central to manage users ARM templates now available to allow you to easily deploy the necessary ThingWorx infrastructure on Azure Read

We will host a live Expert Session: Thingworx Navigate Component Based App Development on Wednesday 09/30, 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time   Please find below the description of the expert session as well as the link to register .   Expert Session: Thingworx Navigate Component Based App Development Date and Time: Wednesday 09/30, 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour Host: Pratibha Bhatnagar Description: Following the series of new capabilities released with Navigate 9.0, this session will focus in the details of Navigate Component Based app development and how to leverage this to your use cases.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’   You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form

We will host a live Expert Session: "Windchill & Thingworx Navigate Authentication" on November 10th at 10:30 AM EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link .   Expert Session: Windchill & Thingworx Navigate Authentication Date and Time: Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 10:30 am EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Arshad Imam, PLM Product Technology Lead   Description: This in Expert Session will take you through a step-by-step approach for configuring authentication between Windchill and Navigate with SSL. Plus, you can take advantage of a unique opportunity to ask questions in a live Q&A following the presentation.   Register here   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’.   You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full