The Hackathon was designed to foster new ways to develop cloud-based IoT solutions using Informix as the database repository for sensor data. IBM provided a store of real-time sensor data that could be used to create applications ranging from municipal water usage monitoring to truck fleet maintenance to analyzing the flow of people and traffic in retail stores.
The winner was chosen based on having the most compelling idea for solving a real-world problem, along with providing the most complete solution.
The winning Datawatch entry included an innovative visualization dashboard for monitoring electrical smart meters in homes so that energy companies could be more efficient and effective in the delivery of power. It combined both historical electricity usage data with real-time household data, visualized through interactive, real-time maps for tracking electricity usage by counties, regions and days of the week. Energy companies could use the visualization to foresee trends and spikes in energy demand, diverting power on the electric grid to areas in need or bringing online auxiliary power plants to meet impending demand.
The winning team used the Datawatch's visual data discovery platform to build the Hackathon app. The technology enables all levels of business users to access, visualize and analyze data from any source – including structured, unstructured and streaming in-motion data — to make faster and more meaningful business decisions. Datawatch supports a wide range of visualizations including treemaps, heat maps, scatter plots, horizon graphs, and other visualizations for fast interpretation of static, time series, real-time streaming, and historic data sets.
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Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM:
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