BellaDati IoT Data Collector is a Java based application with micro-services architecture. It is available as a cloud-based service or can be deployed on your hardware in your organization. End users can access Collector HTTP interfaces using a web browser from any client computer.
This page describes the supported platforms and system requirements for version 0.6+.
Server
This section lists the requirements for an on-premise installation of Collector. If you are using BellaDati Cloud, these requirements do not apply to you.
Modules
Collector instance consists of 3 types of modules:
Audit:
- contains auditing services and provides status of receivers and sensors
- recognizes and cooperates with all receivers and senders that are deployed on the same local machine or on remote machines
- only one module may run in one Collector instance (except HA deployment)
Receiver:
- receives data from homogeneous sensors (sensors that send data in the same structure via the same communication standard)
- multiple modules (on different ports) can run on one machine
- should run on the same machine as linked Sender
Sender:
- sends data periodically from one linked Receiver (see above) to BellaDati through REST API / BellaDati SDK
- multiple modules (on different ports) can run on one machine
- should run on the same machine as linked Receiver
Hardware
In an on-premise environment, a Collector installation consists of multiple distributed modules. These can run on the same computer or on different machines. For evaluation purposes, it is usually sufficient to run all modules on the same computer, e.g. a developer workstation.
Collector hardware requirements mainly depend on the amount of data being processed and the number of concurrent requests during peak minutes. To ensure optimal performance under any circumstances, we group our hardware requirements in 3 tiers depending on usage characteristics. Please note that even so, these configurations can only be guidelines and actual requirements and performance can heavily depend on your usage pattern.
We would appreciate if you could let us know what hardware configuration works in your environment. Please create a ticket in our support system, describing your hardware configuration as well as the number of sensors and data records in your Collector installation.
Minimal Configuration
This configuration is recommended for a less than 100 sensors where each sensor is sending up to 60 requests every minute. We strongly suggest using this kind of configuration for basic demo purposes only. Please verify that target machine meets following minimal configuration, because Collector needs sufficient resources (free RAM, CPU, free disk space) to run correctly.
| Deployment mode | One machine for all modules |
|---|---|
Count of Audit modules | 1 |
Count of Receiver/Sender modules | 1 |
Machine
CPU | 1x 2 GHz 32/64-bit Intel Xeon or comparable |
|---|---|
RAM | 1 GB |
Disk | 1 GB |
Network | 3G |
Medium-load Configuration
This configuration is recommended for up to 1.000 sensors where each sensor is sending up to 60 requests every minute. We recommend running the modules on different machines for this configuration. For HA requirements please double count of modules/machines.
| Deployment mode | Distributed |
|---|---|
Count of Audit modules | 1 |
Count of Receiver/Sender modules | 1 |
Machine for one Audit module
CPU | 1x 2 GHz 64-bit Intel Xeon or comparable |
|---|---|
RAM | 2 GB |
Disk | 20 GB, 10,000 rpm, IDE / SCSI |
Network | 100 Mbps |
Machine for one Receiver and one Sender (linked and running together)
CPU | 1x 2 GHz 64-bit Intel Xeon or comparable |
|---|---|
RAM | 2 GB |
Disk | 20 GB, 10,000 rpm, IDE / SCSI |
Network | 100 Mbps |
High-load Configuration
This configuration is recommended for a 1.000 - 1.000.000 sensors where each sensor is sending up to 60 requests every minute. It is necessary to run modules on different machines for this configuration. For HA requirements please double count of modules/machines.
| Deployment mode | Distributed |
|---|---|
Count of Audit modules | 1 |
Count of Receiver/Sender modules | count of sensors / 1000 |
Machine for one Audit module
CPU* | 32x 2 GHz 64-bit Intel Xeon or comparable |
|---|---|
RAM* | 60 GB |
Disk* | 300 GB, 10,000 rpm, SSD |
Network* | 10 Gbps |
*Depends on actual count of sensors and size of one sensor request. Provided value is for 1.000.000 sensors and request size 150 bytes.
Machine for one Receiver and one Sender (linked and running together)
CPU | 2x 2 GHz 64-bit Intel Xeon or comparable |
|---|---|
RAM | 4 GB |
Disk | 20 GB, 10,000 rpm, SSD |
Network | 500 Mbps |
Operating System
Collector can run on any operating system for which a supported Java 8+ is available. Such operating systems include:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Linux distributions (SuSE Linux, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu)
- Solaris
- Mac OS X
Collector officially supports Oracle Java distributions.
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