Big data gets physical
Hendrik F. Hamann of IBM TJ Watson Research Center
ABSTRACT: While in the past most information on the internet was generated by humans or computers, with the emergence of the Internet of Things, vast amount of data is now being created by sensors from devices, machines etc, which are placed in the physical world. Here we present a series of example applications enabled by such sensor data and what we call “Physical Analytics”, which provides the underlying intelligence for smarter applications using a combination of physical and statistical models.
The smarter solutions, which are being presented in this talk, range from active energy management and optimization, environmental sensing and controls, to renewable energy forecasting. All these applications have been built using a single platform, which is comprised of a set of “configurable” technologies components including ultra-low power sensing and communication, big data management technologies, numerical modeling for physical systems, machine learning based physical model blending, and physical analytics based automation and control.
BIO: Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann is a Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. After receiving his PhD from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1995 he joined as a postdoctor JILA (joint institute of University of Colorado and NIST) in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2001 he is leading the Physical Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) program in IBM Research. His current research interests include the combination of physical model, machine-learning and big data technologies, internet of things, sensor networks, and sensor-based physical modeling. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds over 110 patents. Dr. Hamann is the winner of the 2016 AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics, he is an IBM Master Inventor, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and has served on governmental committees such as the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation and as an industrial advisor to Universities. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the NY Academy of Sciences.
