Living On the Edge: Extracting Ultimate Value from Your IoT Data – insideBIGDATA
The Internet of Things (IoT) is steadily generating inconceivable amounts of data. According to Gartner, 8.4 billion things will be in use in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016. And analysts expect this number to reach 20.4 billion by 2020. By 2025, the IoT is projected to generate more than 2 zettabytes of data, says Machina Research.
With streaming analytics, it can mean real-time reactions to events that can be lifesaving. For example, a truck receives data about an ice patch on the road. The truck then not only adjusts for the driver, but alerts other vehicles of the exact location of the ice.
To make this kind of real-time information available with the high volume and velocity of data constantly streaming in from IoT sensors and network operations, you need a different type of data management solution than that is required for traditional, stationary transactional data.