Suyash Joshi, Senior Developer Advocate at InfluxData, walks through Plant Buddy, an open source IoT demo built on InfluxDB 3. Learn how to ingest, model, and query streaming sensor data with SQL and natural language using the InfluxDB 3 MCP Server.

Key takeaways:

• How to ingest and store real-time IoT sensor data in InfluxDB 3
• How to model time series data for low-latency analytics
• Querying live data using SQL and natural language via an InfluxDB MCP server
• Using Python and the InfluxDB 3 Processing Engine to derive system and health signals
• Automating health checks and real-time insights from streaming data
• Building simple dashboards and application integrations for real-time monitoring
• How MCP simplifies exploration of live time series data using LLMs