Engineering your data
Our overall goal is to combine some of what we have learned from previous chapters – gathering data from the edge, building on what we learned in Chapter 10, Intelligent Systems at the Edge, and processing and storing data that we covered in Chapter 8. We will configure the addition of ML to this overall process and then use the model we will build for real-time inference of new incoming data.
Figure 12.2 outlines our target architecture for this example, so let’s walk through the areas on which we will focus:
- We start with the modify Modbus TCP example from Chapter 10, Intelligent Systems at the Edge, to pull voltage and current data from our simulated PLC. In our last example, we were pulling coil data from the PLC. These are Boolean values signifying the on and off states of a machine. For our use with ML, it is better to pull and use actual decimal values from the equipment. With this example, current data will be queried and examined...
