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Engineering teams today are working with larger sensor datasets than ever before. Whether analyzing IoT monitoring streams, validating digital twins, or supporting predictive maintenance strategies, the challenge is often the same: there’s simply too much time-series data to process efficiently.

That’s why the latest Time Series Compression capability in Advantage Insights is designed to help engineers reduce dataset size while preserving the information that matters most. 

Introducing Time Series Compression

In addition to the existing ways to reduce the amount of time series data (i.e. select specific channels or select specific sections in time), users can now use the new Time Series Compression node.

Time Series Compression is a new capability in Advantage Insights that reduces the size of large sensor datasets without losing their essential characteristics.

Instead of manually trimming signals or removing channels prematurely, engineers can now automatically compress time-series data to make it faster to process, easier to visualize, and more practical to work with across complex workflows.

This makes it easier to move from raw data to insight - without sacrificing confidence in results.

What is it?

Time Series Compression reduces the number of data points in a signal while preserving its key trends, transitions, and relationships with other signals.

This is particularly useful when working with:

  • long-duration monitoring data
  • high-frequency measurements
  • large multi-sensor datasets
  • data lakes containing operational recordings

Importantly, compression maintains synchronization between signals, ensuring datasets remain suitable for downstream engineering analysis.

The result is smaller datasets that still reflect the behavior engineers need to understand. 

How does it work?

The Time Series Compression node intelligently identifies which points in a signal are essential for preserving its shape and removes those that contribute little additional information.

Rather than simply down sampling data uniformly, it:

  • retains important transitions and peaks
  • maintains alignment across channels

Once compressed, signals become significantly faster to process, transfer, and visualize - especially when working across large-scale datasets.

Built for Engineers, by Engineers

Fred Kihm Product Manager, Advantage Insights

What you can do with it

By combining Time Series Compression with channel filtering, and section extraction, engineers can quickly transform complex datasets into manageable working sets.

This makes it easier to:

  • accelerate analytics workflows
  • improve visualization performance
  • simplify data handling across teams
  • focus on meaningful engineering events
  • prepare datasets for deeper modelling or validation

Used alongside physics-based indicators and calculated channels, compression helps streamline the path from raw measurements to actionable insight. 🚀

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