Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments

The amount of data around us is growing exponentially and the leaps in storage and computational power within the last decade underpin the unique selling proposition of Big Data of being able to provide better insights into various business processes or everyday life in a way that was not possible in the past. By analyzing large data sets and discovering relationships across structured and unstructured datasets, it is the driving force behind business analytics and marketed as a significant opportunity to boost innovation, production, and competition. As such, it is no surprise that Big Data is a booming topic of interest not only in the scientific community but also in the enterprise world.