Presented at the North Dakota GIS Hub Users Conference, September 19-20, 2017, Bismarck, ND

1. UNERSTANDING THE
INTERNET OF THINGS,
DATA EXPLOSION AND
GIS ANALYTICS
Alex Philp, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Mansfield Center
The University of Montana
North Dakota State GIS Conference
September 19-20
Bismarck State College

3. IoT – Big Data – Analytics – Automation – Insights – Action

4. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of
interconnected computing devices and the ability to
transfer data over a network without requiring human-
to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
Machine
Connected
Digital

5. • Connected Things - Everywhere:
Car, Phone, House, Atmosphere, Body – (Nano, Bio, IT Convergence)
• IP-6:
128-bit addressing, 3.4 x 1038
• Connected Things: – 8.4 Billion Connecting Devices – 2017
29 Billion Connected Devices – 2022
$267B Market
by 2020 (Forbes,
Gartner)

6. Augmentation
Earth Observation
IP-Addressed Digital Cameras
Autonomous Systems

14. IMAGE

15. Do and Send Things based upon
Measurements and GeoMessages

16. Temperature Model

17. Model Drive Prediction
Data Drive Prediction
Dynamic Continuous Analytics
Model
Measure
Data
Analyze
Refine

18. Gravitometer ~ 5 m/s
1 message ~ 50 bytes
Gravitometer: 250 bytes/second
For 100,000,000 users: 250 * 10^7 = 25,000,000,000
bytes = 24414062.5 kilobytes = 23841.86 megabytes =
23 gigabytes
For one sensor (gravitometer) across 100 million users
we would generate approximately 23 gigabytes of
data each second. That’s 80 Terabytes an hour or
1.9 Petabytes a day.

19. CONTACT:
ALEX PHILP, PH.D.
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
MANSFIELD CENTER
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
APHILP1@GMAIL.COM
406-370-2262