Today, large industrial assets, such as airplane engines and gas turbines, generate data through sensors.
In fact, there are around 6 billion connected sensors in the world today and by 2020, more than 20 billion sensors will be connected worldwide, according to Gartner.
During a commercial airline flight, data such as the engine’s health and status is sent to diagnostic engineers to be closely analyzed.
Approximately 1,000 gigabytes of data are generated per flight and with over 100,000 flights per day, this equates to over 100,000,000 gigabytes of commercial flight data every day.
That is what you call BIG data.
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