This is Day #17 of a short series of brief tips, tricks, hints and reminders of information relating to the Apama Streaming Analytics platform, both from Software AG as well as from the community.

Cumulocity IoT Cloud Fieldbus is the standard approach to connect Fieldbus devices (e.g. Modbus) to Cumulocity IoT in a consistent manner. Cloud Fieldbus only supports integer values to be read from registers. Some devices are reporting floating point numbers though (e.g. temperatures like 25.1 °C). There is no standardized way of doing this but typically IEEE-754 (Wikipedia) encoded floating point numbers are used. In today article, we will show you how to tackle the IEEE-754 decoding using Apama within Cumulocity IoT. So go check it out in the Software AG Tech Community.

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