Is Real-Time Analytics the Future?
Many business leaders think so.
Take Michael Lee Sherwood, for example. Sherwood is chief innovation officer for the
entertainment capital of the world -- Las Vegas, NV. He has been piloting an edge computing
project called Blackjack that uses analytics and real-time data from 100 sensors housed in
traffic cameras, stoplights, and self-driving cars around town. His mission is to use smart
technology to constantly monitor traffic patterns and make immediate adjustments when
there is congestion or tie-ups.
"We're looking at how we can use data to make all of our intersections more intelligent, and to
do that, you need edge computing," says Sherwood. "You need to be able to take all sorts of
data, run calculations against it, and in a matter of milliseconds produce a result. That has to
happen at the edge."
In the world of the Internet of Things (IOT), there are millions and millions of devices that are
becoming connected and networked into computer systems. That scenario opens all kinds of
opportunities to collect, aggregate, analyze, correlate, and evaluate a myriad of data from
those devices. It's time that real-time data that drives real-time information that can be used
to gain competitive advantage.
Chuck Yeager successfully broke through the sound barrier 70 years ago -- and set the stage
for advances in spaceflight.
Are you prepared to leverage the benefits of real-time analytics -
and push your company to the stratosphere?
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