Innovations & technologies

Military Big Data Innovation Inspires Commercial Sector

Innovations and developments found in aerospace and defense often trickle down to the commercial market as products and new capabilities for big data and IoT. Several examples reflect new technology developments coming out of NASA and the US Department of Defense (DoD) that you should keep an eye on in 2019, according to techrepublic.com.

Data payloads cleaning – IoT radically changes the way that IT laboriously cleans big data. Drones in military operations are programmed with machine and deep learning algorithms that enable it to determine which pieces of data are critical to a mission, and which are not. During the in-flight, real-time data collection process, these drones assess all incoming data and automatically discard irrelevant data, dramatically shrinking data payloads.

Hardened sensors – NASA wants hardened sensors that can withstand extreme heat, cold, high radiation levels, and other harsh environmental conditions found in space. These new hardened sensors are more reliable than what companies presently use in their IoT and will go far in preventing IoT sensor failures in space and elsewhere.