Smart Data

Smart data is digital information that is formatted so it can be acted upon at the collection point before being sent to a downstream analytics platform. If Big Data is the oil of the future, then Smart Data is the fuel that drives the production of the future.

Currently, data are just data. To turn them into information, they must be interpreted. This is the step from perception (recognizing) to cognition (understanding). Books, for example, are at first merely collections of letters. They only become knowledge when they are processed and interpreted in the brain. In the context of intelligent automation, the central focus is on the topics of data communication, process modeling, machine learning, autonomous self-configuration and process optimization.