Understanding the relationship between Internet of Things and Big Data

Big Data is watching us. We are generating valuable data each time we perform an action without even knowing that. Every time we tap, click, tweet, stop on a red light signal, hop on a bus, or perform an action caught by the millions of real-time sensors in any city around the world, we are generating valuable data. We interact with IoT devices that have sensors, collect data, and publish it to the Cloud. In order to analyze and process Big Data, managers, architects, developers, and system administrators require many skills that were not necessary for applications that worked with smaller data sets.

We have been working with examples that collected data from the real world through sensors and published it to the Cloud. We also published messages that include data from sensors and commands that have to be processed by code running on an IoT device. Sometimes, we are retrieving data from the sensors every second. Thus,...