14 Ways IoT Will Change Big Data And Business Forever

Data Volumes Explode

The organizations embracing IoT devices see exponential increases in the amount of available data. The deployment model has been to grab a sensor message and then communicate the message through an IPv6 protocol to a machine cloud. However, as the volume of data increases, that model may no longer be viable.

"If I'm capturing the temperature readings [of assets or equipment] every second, most of those readings are inconsequential and I reduce the value of the payload of the data by sending it all," said Don DeLoach, co-chair of the ITA Midwest IoT Council, in an interview. "One of the downsides of storing vast amounts of data is [the time to insights]. If each dataset is over a petabyte and I'm running complex queries, it might take five hours just to get my answer back. If I don't even know if I'm asking the right question, that's a big price to pay."

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