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Context about Big Data

In the current Big Data landscape, integrating and managing large amounts of data within embedded systems, such as those found in modern vehicles, poses significant challenges. While Big Data offers immense potential for real-time analysis and decision-making, the operational reality of implementing these systems uncovers notable complications.

  • Firstly, storage of vast data directly in vehicles is both a technical and economic challenge, with physical space constraints and performance requirements making it costly.
  • Data exploitation is another major hurdle, as extracting valuable information from vast data sets is often lengthy and costly. Data quality is a constant concern, leading to increased costs and efforts for data cleaning and utilization.

The scalability issue becomes critical as manual data collection from a limited number of vehicles becomes impractical at a larger scale.

In response, the industry is turning towards more agile solutions like Cloud storage, which promises better scalability and efficient Big Data management in embedded contexts. However, it does not address the relevance and data exploitation time issues.

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Big Data in embedded systems presents a complex set of challenges, ranging from the storage and exploitation of data to their quality and the scalability of solutions.

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Introducing Smart Data

To address these issues, Heex Technologies offers an innovative solution that always collects only the tiny portion of useful data, referred to as Smart Data. Unlike Big Data, a dataset derived from Smart Data will contain only data that is useful and relevant to the addressed problem.

How does it work? The data are recorded and sent to the Cloud, and automatically sorted into datasets, but only when they meet a number of requirements defined online and dynamically by the user. To achieve this, Heex Technologies deploys a solution directly at the Edge, which transmits data to the Cloud.

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Collecting Smart Data with Heex Technologies

Heex Technologies offers a product called Heex Smart-Data Platform, which consists of two key components:

  • The Heex Cloud → accessible online, for configuring and viewing the generated data
  • The Heex Agents → a collection of Agents deployed at the Edge for gathering the data

The Heex Cloud allows to specify conditions for data collection, monitor system deployments, and view generated datasets.

The Heex Agents enables the development and deployment of agents on embedded systems, facilitating Over The Air (OTA) updates and the implementation of client-specified recording strategies.

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What is a system ?

Within Heex Technologies, a system is conceptualized as an entity which intend to generate, process, or transmit data. This perspective underscores the system’s role as a dynamic and interactive unit that actively participates in the creation and manipulation of information.