Pattern recognition on ThingWorx

Well not really

I mean in the end you have pattern recognition that's deriving from a Machine Learning background, where TWX Analytics comes into play.

This could be behavioral patterns, patterns & shapes in images, movements and fences etc.

That in turn could relate to vectors, clustering, neural networks, decision trees for analysis.

However, those are all just algorithms, which could be implemented in a custom service. Probably based on a Java Class instead of a Java Script - which would then require programming a custom extension.

If the recognition, or the pattern is quite simple, like getting an numeric input and compare it to a pre-defined range of numbers - or receiving a string and validating it with a pre-existing regular expression... this can be implemented on a TWX service level with Java Script.

You could even have dynamic patterns by modifying the pattern and storing it in a (value) stream to validate, if an incoming value matches e.g. the last 3 stored patterns.

Those could be used for some kind of self-designed machine learning algorithm.

So if the use case is simple enough - depending on the actual patterns (text based instead of images / stream based), a simple service comparing thresholds or regex pattern could also be sufficient. For anything else, with a real machine learning approach / background TWX Analytics is probably most likely the better choice.

But to keep it short: yes, it's possible to use pattern recognition algorithms in a ThingWorx environment