Streaming data

One type of data that is becoming increasingly prevalent in GIS data is IoT data. IoT data is closely integrated with geospatial data and has had a major boom in adoption and implementation. All of these IoT sensors from farm equipment, medical sensors, pressure sensors from pipes and various tanks, and voltage, vibration, and temperature sensors are streaming in their coordinates and timestamps, also known as their spatiotemporal attributes.

I think it’s important to point out that there are various forms of streaming data, and there is a lot of confusion around real time. I have yet to see a formal definition of what constitutes real-time data, but it seems the general consensus is that real time is streaming data that is actionable within its frequency. For power and electric sensors, that might mean nanoseconds to respond, but in other sectors, that could mean milliseconds to seconds to even minutes for disaster response and public safety scenarios. Generally...