We live in a world where we are increasingly surrounded by devices and sensors capable to sense our environment and record information about it with pretty good accuracy. Such devices today can measure and record temperature, humidity, air pressure, energy consumption, water consumption, etc. and they can do it in frequecies that can reach even to fragments of seconds in some cases. Moreover, we, as social media users, are also creating streams of information that is being stored in large data centers. Furthermore, more and more organisations (public and private) are releasing their data using Linked Open Data standards to make it openly available online, etc.
In a world that devices and their users can generate such huge ammounts of data in a matter of minutes, how can we benefit from all this information? Can we use this data to better understand our behaviour, monitoring online transactions, etc.? Is it possible to enhance our lifes and improve our environement? How can we analyse this data to help us build sustainable environments? In the end of the day, can big data analytics help us save the environemnt and answer the major issues we are facing today?
Wassim Derguech from the National University of Ireland, Galway, will be providing some answers using as examples two research projects for energy consumption (http://sense-project.com/) and water conservation (http://waternomics.eu EU funded project).
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