Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications

CHAPTER 5

Processing and Adding Vibrancy to Sensor Data

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

—Stephen Hawking, Physicist

The integration of sensors into many aspects of daily life will generate enormous volumes of data, and that will only increase as progressively more sensor output start to feed into “big data.” The term “big data,” which has received significant attention in recent years, is used to describe the voluminous amounts of unstructured and semi-structured data companies, governments, institutions, and individuals generate each day using information and communication technologies (ICT). Sensors are expected to be one ...