According to Gartner, the number of connected things will reach 14.2 billion marks in 2019 and 25 billion by 2021.
Let’s explore how the Salesforce IoT cloud is gathering large volumes of data generated by sensors, gadgets, websites, and packages to initiate actions for real-time responses.Salesforce integration with IoT devices enables businesses to keep customer data updated and address their growing expectations.
At Oodles, we provide Salesforce integration services for efficient and accurate management of customer information.Salesforce Approach to IoTThe aim of Salesforce is to enrich its services with the benefits of big data gathered from connected devices.
Salesforce IoT Cloud is powered by Thunder which is an event-processing engine designed to capture, filter and respond to events in real-time.Thunder is built on the following open-source tools:Apache Storm: A real-time big data and event-processing platformApache Cassandra: A distributed database management systemApache Kafka: A messaging system that manages huge volumes of reads and writes per secondApache Spark: A distributed large scale data processing framework for streaming dataFirstly, the imported data is dumped into Apache Kafka.
Apache Storm uses the data stored in Kafka to handle real-time events.Benefits of Salesforce IoT CloudNo Code TechnologySalesforce IoT cloud uses a low code approach that enables business associates to carry out their IoT processes without any IT knowledge.
It enables businesses to set triggers and responses for the bulk processes.