UNDERSTANDING THE DATA MEASURE UNITS IN BIG DATA ERA
Data Generated by Wearables
3 — HOW TO SCALE THE DATA SIZE IN BIG DATA ERA
3 — DATA GENERATED BY WEARABLES
One area that stands out is Wearables, which consist of wearable technological devices used by users such as watches, bracelets, headphones, virtual reality glasses, and even clothing with sensors for measuring human activities.
The most common is the smartwatches, used in measurements of the practice of physical exercises, and health monitoring.
On average they get 2 to 5 GB a day of data about a person’s activities.
One of these devices to control their health in a year, it is expected that you have used 365 x 5 GB = 1.8 Terabytes and 10 years approximately 18 TB of data
Personal data and data generated by people have become the holy grail of business for “data-driven” companies such as Google and Facebook.
Personal data should be handled strictly confidentially for security reasons.
CURIOSITIES
- Wearables bring a series of sensors that help encourage exercise or follow weight loss programs.
- The most common human…
