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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Generating messages to an IoT data pipeline

Before we write any code, let’s take a look at the schema of the metrics data we’ll be sending to the broker.

Examining the simulated metrics data

Our data is based on consumer metrics generated by a smart thermostat. While it isn’t the raw data directly transmitted by the device to the thermostat company’s servers, it can be considered representative of the kind of data typical of such a device. This is the list of fields from the header of data/thermostat_events.csv:

System Setting,System Mode,Calendar Event,Program Mode,Cool Set Temp (F),Heat Set Temp (F),Current Temp (F),Current Humidity (%RH),Outdoor Temp (F),Wind Speed (km/h),Cool Stage 1 (sec),Heat Stage 1 (sec),Aux Heat 1 (sec),Fan (sec),DM Offset,Thermostat Temperature (F),Thermostat Humidity (%RH),Thermostat Motion,Upstairs (F),Upstairs2

Most of the fields we’re interested in are temperatures, denoted by (F). We’ll also add the...

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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