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AltSql Core and Six Prototypes Built Around It
AltSql Core is the engine the project started with. It keeps key-value data and time-series readings on a device, answers SQL on a gateway, and copies the same records to …
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AltSql Ask Puts One SQL Question to 500 Simulated Machines and Brings Back Only the Answers
An engineer wants to know which machines ran hot last night. The usual way is to pull every machine’s readings to a server first and ask there. That moves every raw …
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AltSql Vector Teaches a Device What a Healthy Motor Sounds Like, in 32-Byte Fingerprints
A vibration sensor on a motor hears a lot. Most of it is the motor doing its job. The useful part is the moment the sound changes into something new, like a bearing …
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AltSql Wave Keeps Raw Vibration Bursts on the Device, Lossless, and Sends Only Their Features
When a pump’s bearing starts to fail, an analyst wants two things. A quick figure to spot it, and the raw signal to understand it. Devices usually keep one or the …
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AltSql Mesh Keeps Twelve Devices on One Table on a Simulated Farm With No Signal and No Gateway
Some places have no mobile coverage and nowhere to put a gateway. A big sheep farm is one. The people working it still need the same picture: which troughs are low, which …
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AltSql Realtime Meets a 10 ms Deadline on a Simulated Flash Chip That Takes 45 ms to Erase
A controller runs its loop 100 times a second. Every cycle it saves a value and logs a row, and those writes have to finish within 10 ms. The trouble is the flash chip. …
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AltSql Instant: A Battery-Free Sensor on MRAM Saved 1,428 Readings in a Simulated Minute, Against 220 for AltSql Core on Flash
Some sensors have no battery. A small solar cell charges a capacitor, and when it is full the sensor wakes and works until the charge runs out. Then the power goes, …