Introduction
At the upcoming “DSAG (German SAP User Group) Jahreskongress 2016” I have the chance to present how easily you can work in hybrid (cloud-to-on Premise) SAP landscapes.
In this blog i will show you how easily you can visualize your SAP HCP IoT Data with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and formerly known as SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (BOC).
Since the July release the OData adapter was introduced in SAP Analytics Cloud What’s New in SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Digital Boardroom – July/August 2016
Please check also this nice blogs, which has me inspired to show the possibility to watch your IoT data in SAP Analytics Cloud:
The Easiest Way to Stream your iPhone’s Sensor Data to HANA Cloud Platform
From Wroclaw to Berlin and back: IoT analysis with SAP Lumira via jdbc
From Wroclaw to Berlin and back with SensorPhone and SAP HCP IoT
Additional my previous blogs about SAP HCP IoT in combination with SAP HCP Integration Service (Data Services):
Use SAP HCP IoT Services and HCP Integration Services (HCI-DS) to get your Sensor Data – Part 1
Use SAP HCP IoT Services and HCP Integration Services (HCI-DS) to get your Sensor Data – Part 2
Use SAP HCP IoT Services and HCP Integration Services (HCI-DS) to get your Sensor Data – Part 3
Let´s start:
To fetch your IoT data open the URL from your BOC tenant:
And create a new connection to your SAP HCP data source:
Click the + button and add a new “Import Data Connection” and choose OData as type:
Provide/Select the following details:
- Connection Name: <your connection name>
- Description: <your description>
- Data Source Type: <OData Services>
- URL: https://<host>/com.sap.iotservices.mms/v1/api/http/app.svc
- User: <your_suser>
- pw: <suser_pw>
Acquire and Model your HCP IoT Data
Switch in the SAC to the Modeler and define a new model.
Choose “Get data from an app”:
In the next step choose OData Services as source:
Define your Data Model and create a new query:
Enter a name and a description for your query and select your HCP IoT table which you want to use:
In the upcoming next screen build your query and select the required fields, in my example i use C_TIMESTAMP, C_LATITUDE and C_LONGITUDE.
Futhermore i define i filter that i only want to get my favorite data.
After you start the import, you are able to see your data as selected:
Convert your Data:
For my sceanario i need to transform my data, this is required because i want to use the coordinates in a SAC for Geo Map.
- Duplicate the C_ALTITUDE column because i wnat to use this later for my location identifier
- create the required location based on the C_LATITUDE and C_LONGITUDE:
As result you get a new colum from type location:
The last step in the SAC modeler is to save the model with a name of you choice and press “Create Model”:
In the overview you can now see your created model:
Create your Story
Now it´s time to visualize your IoT data, for this switch to the Stories perspective in SAC and create a new story (select Add Canvas):
In the next upcoming screen choose “Chart” as object:
Select your previously created data model as source:
Afterwards you can now create your visualization:
Add a Geo Map:
Now we need to create a new layer:
- click on the “Add Layer”
- select your data source
- select you location dimension and optional change the color, the map etc.:
As result you can now see your IoT data:
You can now scroll into your map and get more details for a specific selection.
Fo example here you can see there was a traffic jam:
Conclusion
I think you can see how easily you can work with your IoT Data and with SAP HCP and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Stay tuned in the next blog I will show you how can you fetch the SAP HCP IoT data via SAP HCP Integration Services and push this to an SAP Gateway OData service to store my data in an OnPremise HANA DB.
Additionally … sorry it´s composed in German ;o) our session about this stuff:
Cheers,
Fabian
cool, thanks!
Hi Fabian,
Thanks for posting on this topic. Very clear and easy to follow. I actually tried this few days back using IoT Services. I was disappointed that the frequency to load new data (using the OData adapter) is just in days. When we talk about IoT, we need things in real time. I am hoping this feature will be added.
Cheers,
Murali
Hi Murali,
total agree with you, this one must be changed. i´am wondering too if i set up the repetion of my data query.
cheers,
fabian
Just in case someone wants to know how to schedule a regular import of the IoT data into BOC, below is the settings.
Excellent work – thanks for stepping us through this!
wow – awesome share.. keep up the great work. great blog
Thanks for sharing. However I have a question. How could we create like a geospatial model in HCP to consume it in Business Objects Cloud? We already have latitude and longitude but we don’t know what to do to create that model.
Thanks in advance!
Robert Russell has done a lot of work with geospatial as well – maybe there are some insights here that could help? My Session At Las Vegas Teched 2016: Getting Started with Geospatial Topics on SAP HANA Cloud Platform for Free
Thank you Moya Watson, it looks really good 🙂
Very nice blog! One Question
How did you manage to load a timestamp with format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. I try to build a model from a flat file and I can not select this format…
Hi Fabian!
Is there a restriction on the trial version. When I open the menu for the Import Data Connection I only see an entry for SuccessFactors, or do I oversee something.
Greetings, Andreas
Hi Andreas,
yes, looks like that this is an restriction on the trial instance.
As u can see in my screen (partner boc tenant), there are a lot of other including OData connections possible.
br,
fabian
Thanks for the clarification,
br, Andreas
Great work, thank you!