Thursday, October 20, 2016

Intersection of Big Data and IOT

Lately I had been blogging about IOT and Big Data. They go hand-in-hand. With the IOT devices feeding the data to the Big Data platforms on the Cloud to store/analyze the data and feed it back to the IOT devices. One such example is the Nest device bought by Google. Nest thermostat gathers the room temperature, sends it over to the Cloud over Wi-Fi, analytics done in the Cloud and fed back to the Nest again.

This is not something new, but had been there for quite some time. But, the conditions are moving towards more adoption of Big Data and IOT like cheap sensors, Cloud, cheaper and faster internet connections. Here is an article  from ZDNet on ten practical examples on the intersection of Big Data and IOT. For those who are interested in learning more, here (1, 2) are few more references from ZDNet.

I am yet to try it out, but here is a detailed article from IBM Developer Works on building a temperature sensor using Arduino Uno, putting the data in the Cloud and finally visualizing the data in a real time. Here is another article on how to integrate IOT with Azure.


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