The collection, analysis, and mapping of large amounts of health facilities data following the Haiti earthquake suggests that the rapid deployment of information gathering platforms is technically feasible in crisis settings.
New data-gathering platforms like the National Ecological Observatory Network and the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems are coming online, and growing quantities of data, spanning ever-larger geographical and time scales, await analysis.
The sources of data related to urban environments continue to increase, ranging from data gathering services and sensing platforms deployed by administrative authorities to data gathered by/from the citizens through participatory and opportunistic sensing mechanisms.
The Hadoop-based product, Mr. Ruh said, was a first part of a much larger platform for data gathering and analysis that G.E. plans to construct and use both internally and with customers.
This platform relies on data gathering, analyzing, mining model, readily adapted to present traffic conditions and reliable data from traffic accidents in Beijing.
More recently they introduced the "Copenhagen Wheel", a bicycle wheel whose red hub can not only give the rider a boost but also measure environmental conditions, such as pollution and noise levels.Yet many such projects will need a common platform that streamlines data gathering and supports all kinds of applications, says Mr Ratti.
Adding location into the mix, to provide extra datapoints especially for customers who use the Spotfire platform in wider data gathering analysis, makes sense.
The system puts the training process and model repository in cloud platforms, and the recognition process and data gathering in mobile devices.
That's why PetaJakarta.org (Map Jakarta) was born: it's an online platform that transforms Twitter into an emergency data gathering and critical alert service during flooding in Jakarta.
For data gathering, we used apache Kafka which is a distributed streaming platform.
