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February 7, 2017
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Thing Remote/Local Property Limits

  • February 7, 2017
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I'm looking at a situation now where we have 50 devices we need to connect, each with 40 properties. These actually connect via a single gateway Thing, and so all 2000 remote properties are bound to that gateway thing. In this case our model also dictates that we have individual Things to represent each device, so then we have 50 Things, with their 40 properties each locally bound to its corresponding properties on the gateway Thing.

So all in all we've got 2000 remote properties on a Thing (each updating say once per second), and each of those properties is bound locally to one of 50 other Things. Is there any limit we are approaching in this situation? I know this support case says maybe 1,000,000 property limit to safely open in composer, so I assume we are fine here. I'm just curious if the remote and local bindings start to decrease the limit recommendations for opening in composer, server load, etc.

Thanks!

Alex

Best answer by jkaczynski

Hi Alex,

I don't know the official limits, but as far as I know it's pretty high. Your architecture is fine and should work correctly even with more properties. The worse use case would be to connect every device directly to the Platform - with a larger set of devices this could clog your Platform's connection possibilities. But I'm talking now about the thousands of devices - and then Connection Server should be used to balance the overload.

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jkaczynski1-VisitorAnswer
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February 8, 2017

Hi Alex,

I don't know the official limits, but as far as I know it's pretty high. Your architecture is fine and should work correctly even with more properties. The worse use case would be to connect every device directly to the Platform - with a larger set of devices this could clog your Platform's connection possibilities. But I'm talking now about the thousands of devices - and then Connection Server should be used to balance the overload.

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February 8, 2017

Thanks for confirming my suspicions here Jakub. Good note about device connections as well!

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