The quantified-self is a movement that has been around since the 1970s but only recently it took off due to the internet of things and the availability of monitoring devices that connect to smartphones. Todays smartphones carry a vast amount of all sorts of sensors that can track almost anything. The quantified-self is Big Data for consumers and consumers are collecting massive … [Read more...] about The Rise Of The Quantified-Self; And What It Means For Your Organisation
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Five Key Characteristics Of Companies Using Big Data
Data pours into organisations from almost every angle imaginable. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises can easily collect gigabytes of data per day, startups can effortlessly reach terabytes of data per day and online organisations can even generate petabytes of data per day without any problem. However, simply having massive amounts of data is not enough to become an … [Read more...] about Five Key Characteristics Of Companies Using Big Data
Trucking Company US Xpress Drives Efficiency With Big Data
How do you make a snapshot of a large trucking company to understand what is going on in the organisation? By combining 900 different data elements from 10.000s trucking systems such as sensors for petrol usages, tyres, brakes, engine operations, geo-spatial data and driver comments across a fleet of 8.000 tractors and 22.000 trailers into one Hadoop Database and analyse it in … [Read more...] about Trucking Company US Xpress Drives Efficiency With Big Data
Rolls Royce Shifts In Higher Gear With Big Data
Rolls Royce, the engine manufacturer and not the car manufacture, takes big data to a higher gear with their Rolls-Royce Engine Health Monitoring Unit. All engines of Rolls Royce, be it for aircrafts, helicopters or ships, are equipped with sensors that collect data from different components, systems or sub-systems within the engines. This information is analysed by algorithms … [Read more...] about Rolls Royce Shifts In Higher Gear With Big Data
TomTom Takes Big Data To the Extreme
TomTom is a Dutch manufacturer of automotive navigation systems that was founded in 1991. Apart from stand-alone units for cars they develop also mobile navigation apps as well as business solutions. On June 11, 2012, at a product launch of iOS 6 it was announced that TomTom would be the main mapping provider for Apples new Maps App. Their revenue in 2011 was over $ 1.2 billion … [Read more...] about TomTom Takes Big Data To the Extreme
