We are nearing the dawn of a very interesting age. From robotics, to smart homes, to web-connected light bulbs, HVAC units, servers and routers—machines are in use everywhere. These machines have a lot to say, but what happens when you start listening? What things come to light and what new discoveries can you make? What questions can you now ask of your world? This session will explore machine to machine analytics as government organizations deploy more applications for their citizens and contend with an exploding Internet of Things.
Data is growing and embodies new characteristics not found in traditional structured data: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Variability.
Machine data is one of the fastest, growing, most complex and most valuable segments of big data. "Big data" is a term applied to these expanding data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.
All the webservers, applications, network devices – all of the technology infrastructure running an enterprise or organization – generates massive streams of data, in an array of unpredictable formats that are difficult to process and analyze by traditional methods or in a timely manner.
Why is this “machine data” valuable? Because it contains a trace - a categorical record - of user behavior, cyber-security risks, application behavior, service levels, fraudulent activity and customer experience.
Physically, the data may look like streams of cryptic information, but it contains valuable information.
Weather sensors may stream temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity information. Door swipes log the entry of employees to a facility. Wireless routers track user online access, and EZ-pass readers monitor traffic flowing through midtown Manhattan. All of of this data is continually produced, by thousands of devices, and it can contain a blueprint to what is going on in the world around us.
Gartner research estimates there will be 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020.
ABI Research estimates that more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things by 2020
Currently, machine data is coming from every one of New York’s departments in one form or another.
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Add to that machine data from the general public, retail and manufacturing segments, and you have a treasure trove of information.
Many of you in this room may be directly tied to some of these example – so please see me afterward with any corrections!
But today we’ll be exploring a bunch of other use cases, all of which are in use today by one department or another in NYS/NYC governments departments.
State & local government has been aggregating and storing the massive amounts of data they collect for years. Now is the time for agencies to capitalize on their data – and some innovate New York State and City agencies are.
So where where can agencies get data from now, and what data sources can we add in the future?
Lets look at a few examples of machine data being collected by various departments in major cities.
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For years, state & local government has been aggregating and storing the massive amounts of data they collect, all resting on the promise that someday the information will be valuable. Now is the time for agencies to capitalize on their data.
The technology now exists to quickly process and analyze data. Organizations can finally derive value from their data lakes as well as from their machine data, or data that is created without the intervention of humans, from transactions, APIs, call centers, sensors, and more.
If a street is closed:
How will traffic be affected?
How will parking revenue be impacted?
How should busses be rerouted?
How do we measure the effectiveness of our decisions in real-time?
Already, there are many city services collecting machine data. A few notable one include these:
This device on a lamppost at an intersection is an “Encompass 4” RFID reader manufactured by TransCore of Pennsylvania. It is used to sense E-ZPass transponders in passing vehicles as part of the City and State Departments of Transportation and the NYCDOITT “Midtown in Motion” program. Although E-ZPass is primarily used for toll-collection across the Northeast, these sensors track traffic flow in midtown Manhattan, allowing traffic signals to respond to changing conditions.
Data viewed at NYC-DOT’s Traffic Management Center in Long Island
Source: http://www.invisibleboxes.info/encompass/
Here’s something NYC DOT is looking at doing:
Connected Vehicle
CV Pilot Deployment Program
http://www.its.dot.gov/pilots/
Already, there are many city services collecting machine data. A few notable one include these:
These grey boxes are attached to the exterior of over 800,000 buildings across New York City. They are Meter Transmission Units, manufactured by Aclara (owned by ESCO technologies of St Louis, Missouri) and part of a 2008 New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) program titled “Citywide Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program.” They transmit data from meter sensors inside the building to nearby Network Data Collectors, which in turn send it to the DEP for more accurate billing compared to estimating bills based on irregular manual meter readings, and near-real-time leak alerts for building owners.
Source: http://www.invisibleboxes.info/water-meter-transmission-unit/
We have a current customer using Splunk for these use cases
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This small beige box mounted at a small distance from an exterior apartment building wall is an outdoor temperature sensor, manufactured by Heat-Timer Corporation of New Jersey. It senses the external temperature and controls the heating of a building, most commonly by cycling a boiler found in the basement of the building. NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development mandates that all apartment buildings in the city provide heating when the outside temperature drops below given temperatures, and these sensors help buildings abide by those laws.
Source: http://www.invisibleboxes.info/temperature-sensor/
Already, there are many city services collecting machine data. A few notable one include these:
Subway turnstiles, police cameras and license plate readers, traffic signal control systems, and the soon-to-be release LinkNYC pay-hone replacement.
Already, there are many city services collecting machine data. A few notable ones include:
Noise & Vibration Monitor
Data is automatically sent to a compliance website
Provides e-mail alerts, reports, and warnings of excessive noise or vibration
The monitoring system includes four (4) noise and five (5) vibration monitors placed along the perimeter of the WTC site in Lower Manhattan. ButterJAM established a web interface which queries noise and vibration monitoring databases within the off-site server. The data is automatically sent to an innovative compliance website which displays appropriate data and allows access by authorized users. The system provides e-mail alerts, warning of any noise or vibration limit exceedance or equipment malfunction. In addition, the system automatically generates reports and directly e-mails reports to authorized personnel.
Source: http://www.invisibleboxes.info/noise-monitoring-terminal/
Informed Decision Making
Security Monitoring
Forecasting
Monitoring & Alerting
Real-time Feed Back