HEALTHCARE 4.0
device and these things will need to be monitored . We ’ re ready to support this as we ’ ve proved with our logistics customers we have the ability to help them manage alerts when the temperature drops on something or when a box is opened – to do that involves managing vast amounts of data from IoT sensors .”
Now , the company is focused on maintaining sufficient richness of functionality to make it a complete commercial proposition around five key capabilities DataStax calls CARDS … so , what are the capabilities that make up CARDS and how can they support IoT ?
“ CARDS is all about applications that have a requirement to deliver C – contextually relevant information . A – means always on , so the platform is always available . It ’ s something we ’ re good at , not like a back-office finance application that runs 9-5 and goes down at weekends . R – stands for the fact that we run in real time because we ’ ve all become more impatient across the world . We don ’ t want to make a doctor ’ s appointment in two weeks-time , we want problems like these solved right away . D – recognises that a lot of the companies we work with have highly distributed environments . IoT itself is a highly distributed database environment with millions upon millions of devices and data collection points . S – responds to the need for this solution to be scalable .
“ With IoT you can ’ t predict what data volumes will be or the usage patterns so a database layer that is linearly and predictably scalable is really important . The general requirements for IoT involve terabytes of data being transmitted from millions of devices . It ’ s not a batch , it has to happen in real time . We see lots of IoT use cases in utilities and also coming into manufacturing with our customers in the automotive space . They ’ re featuring designs with a dozen different touch points in a car , sending data back to the manufacturer about the way that car is being driven and predicting when it will need to be serviced .
“ With healthcare we want our problems fixed now . In a recent workforce survey , PwC found that 85 % of clinicians interviewed believed the majority of diagnostics will be formed via data from an app , with less and less from in-person care .”
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