Machines/sensors and Big Data

Quote in Big Data Will Drive the Industrial Internet

“A six hours flight from New York to LA on a twin-engine aircraft produces a 240-terabyte mountain of data,” writes Paul Mathai, applied research lead, Manufacturing & Hi-Tech, at Wipro. “The data can be analyzed to reveal every aspect of the engine’s performance and health.”

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These data add up very quickly if you think about all the flights.   Are all these mountains of data valuable?