Tellient Blog IoT Analytics: Big Data, Small Data and Other Data

If you are embarking on an IoT project and you are reading this, you already have a sense that the data generated by your devices is valuable and must therefore be captured, analyzed and leveraged for your (and your customers') benefit. This is true. You are also likely to see a conflation of the following concepts: IoT, Big Data, and Analytics. I guess that makes sense to some degree; billions of connected devices are going to generate big amounts of data, so clearly a big data solution is needed, yes? No.