Down the road, he can see the potential for the iWatch as distributed data sensor that might allow Apple to fix its maps better, for instance.
Industry executives are salivating over the streams of new, valuable physiological data from sensor-wearing patients.
Big Data includes that as well as Twitter feeds, Facebook (FB) posts, GPS data, road sensor signals, genomic data, and videos.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has set up a program to gather information about car crashes using data from sensor boxes.
Recently, the domain has also developed vector data sets that represent subsets of information extracted from the base sensor data such as roads, pipelines and waterways.
The app spends roughly a week collecting data from this sensor and testing it against the user's emotional state.
Companies like DigitalGlobe and GeoEye are capturing massive quantities of global sensor data and making it commercially available at marginal cost.
Surveys describe how people feel at the moment, but proper analytics of sensor data can help employers understand how people work.
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Some of the major challenges include fusing sensor data with mapping, imagery and other real-time display systems, according to the report.
You can "virtually visit" friends and family by controlling the WiFi-connected bot remotely, with live video, audio, controls and sensor data.
As one tiny but illustrative example, Cisco notes that soon networks will be moving 200 megabytes of sensor data annually per cow.
Innovation: The team creates thousands of evolutionary designs during the racing season, based on terabytes of sensor data, test runs, and computerized simulations.
And for the first time, the mobile device had enough computing power and screen real estate to do something interesting with the sensor data.
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Mundie talks about the ability of these sensors to combine with computers elsewhere that can leverage sensor data about a few features and make increasingly more realistic faces.
Starting in the second half of 2012, the company will begin offering a new cloud service to provide pet health management support using sensor data collected from the device.
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Sensor data is stored on the device for a fixed period of time, and accumulated data can be transferred using a special application and FeliCa technology, a popular smart card system in Japan.
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The sensor data are processed by a microcontroller on the glove then sent via Bluetooth to a mobile device, which translates the positions of the hand and fingers into text when the pattern is recognized.
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Runners and cyclists of all levels will now be able to better track, analyze and improve their performance by wirelessly sending sensor data to one of the growing number of Bluetooth v4.0-enabled smartphones or tablets on the market.
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Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.
Other types of data, such as sensor output, may be useless drivel to prying eyes.
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After you swallow, the sensor reports data to technicians eliminating many invasive tests.
In addition, Fast Readout Technology rapidly transfers video data from the image sensor, enabling 3D images to be captured in high-resolution HD mode.
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Nikon's exclusive EXPEED 3 image processing engine interprets the massive amount of image data flowing from the sensor to quickly process images and HD video.
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Mobile, social, location, sensor and big data technologies have made the possibility of truly contextual ads a reality.
Second, widespread sensor and other data streams allow more granular measurement of effects, and superior targeting of actions based on these tests.
Advances in sensor systems, data availability, social technology, and other innovations have matured and converged to make 2012 a particularly exciting time in this field.
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Meanwhile, the 2, 016-pixel RGB metering sensor provides precise data to the camera's Scene Recognition System, which optimises exposure, autofocus and white balance immediately before the shutter is released.
Dr Aviv said that typically users did not have to give permission for a sensor to gather data even if the information it grabbed had nothing to do with the application they were using.
This differential has been pretty constant ever since the satellite data was corrected for orbital and sensor issues.
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