Marple has developed the Marple Insight tool, which provides time-series engineering data to users over the cloud for visualizing, calculating and extracting insights.
It builds on its precursor Marple Cloud, with the ability to read databases – rather than ‘drag and drop’ files – and thus caters to larger teams or infrastructures than its precursor.
MarpleDB, another development, is a high-performance database designed to store and query time-series data, and complements Marple Insights by vertically integrating into the cloud tool, with the ability to be the database should a transition from a file model to a database model occur.
The automotive industry is seeing a huge leap forward regarding data, which is moving from local files to a database model, meaning an increasing demand for large, smart cloud data storage. However, a disconnect between IT and engineering is often an issue seen in the industry.
Most visualization and analysis tools are for business intelligence, requiring an engineer to download the data to jump into a local script, or there is no database process adopted in the first place. This reduces productivity as the data is not in a database, accessible to everyone, in real time. MarpleDB and Marple Insights are designed to address these issues.
For example, MarpleDB can be the first stage in the data pipeline, ingesting real-time data efficiently. Marple Insights can be used to make a project where many different visualizations (maps, FFTs, time-series, scatter plots) and KPIs (histograms, formatted labels, tables) are presented to each team member independent of their location.
This data can be further enriched with Marple’s tooling, such as custom math channels, data overlays, live-data support and other industry-specific items such as distance-based plotting for motorsport users.
Marple has been introduced to a number of large motorsport teams, and has been employed at the IMSA 24 at Daytona, among other races.
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