A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS AND SENSOR DATA ANALYTICS

International Journal of Information Sciences and Techniques (IJIST) Vol.6, No.1/2, March 2016
DOI : 10.5121/ijist.2016.6219 185
A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS
AND SENSOR DATA ANALYTICS
Kavita Ahuja
1
and N.N.Jani
2
1
Shree Madhav Institute of Computer & Information Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India
2
Ex-Director, SKPIMCS - MCA, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
ABSTRACT
The growth of smart and intelligent devices known as sensors generate large amount of data. These
generated data over a time span takes such a large volume which is designated as big data. The data
structure of repository holds unstructured data. The traditional data analytics methods well developed and
used widely to analyze structured data and to limit extend the semi-structured data which involves
additional processing over heads. The similar methods used to analyze unstructured data are different
because of distributed computing approach where as there is a possibility of centralized processing in case
of structured and semi-structured data. The under taken work is confined to analysis of both verities of
methods. The result of this study is targeted to introduce methods available to analyze big data.
KEYWORDS
Sensor data, big data, data analysis, data analytics
1. INTRODUCTION
The technological growth has rapidly influenced automation of devices but now this automated
system is being made intelligent not only for purpose of operation but also for effective control.
This initiative has opened up the window of smart devices, smart homes, smart hospitals, smart
agriculture, smart citizen services, smart medical services and many more to improve their quality
of life and services. The core at this initiative requires instant data acquisition, immediate
processing and storage for analysis - dynamic as well as futuristic, requires deployment of
wireless sensors of diversified types for data capture and high performance processing,
communication and storage on cloud infrastructure. This will help to integrate all related areas
and give analytics based decision support as well as intelligent control. Sensor data pose
challenges with respect to data acquisition, storage and efficient and real-time processing of
massive volumes [1] of possibly unstructured data resulting in big data. Therefore, analytics of
sensor data raise a set of issue with respect to traditional methods of data analysis.
According to the estimation of Steve Lever [2], the growth of data is more than 50% a year,
estimated by IDC, a technology research firm. There are now countless digital sensors worldwide
in the devices used in areas such as agriculture, industries, automobiles, defense, and shipping
transport etc. These devices can trap sensors data based on geographical location, movement,
vibration, temperature, pressure, environmental changes, chemical changes and many more.

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Although the advances of computer systems and internet technologies have witnessed the
development of computing hardware following the Moore’s law for several decades, the problems
of handling the large-scale data still exist when we are entering the age of wireless sensor data
which result in big data. That is why Fisher et al. [3] pointed out that big data means that the data
is unable to be handled and processed by most current information systems or methods because
data in the big data era will not only become too big to be loaded into a single machine, it also
implies that most traditional data mining methods or data analytics developed for a centralized
data analysis process may not be able to be applied directly to big data.
In response to the problems of analyzing large-scale data, quite a few efficient methods[4], such
as sampling, data condensation, density-based approaches, grid-based approaches, divide and
conquer, incremental learning, and distributed computing, have been presented. Of course, these
methods are constantly used to improve the performance of the operators of data analytics
process. The results of these methods illustrate that with the efficient methods at hand, the large
–scale data may be analyzed in a reasonable time.
To make the whole process of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) more clear, Fayyad et al
[5] summarized the KDD process by a few operations, which are selection, preprocessing,
transformation, data mining, and interpretation/evaluation. These operators will be able to build a
complete data analytics system to gather data first as Data Input, than Data Analytics and gives
the result/output to the user.
Because the traditional data analysis methods are not designed for large-scale and complex data,
they are almost impossible to be capable of analyzing the big data. Redesigning and changing the
way the data analysis methods are designed are two critical trends for big data analysis. Several
important concepts in the design of the big data analysis method will be given in the following
sections.
Data streams are generated at multiple Distributed computing sensor nodes, which requires data
mining approaches to optimized communication cost across different nodes, also the cost of
computation, storage requirements at each node. Charu Aggrawal [6],draw attention to distributed
computing network, which contains very large amount of sensor nodes, the aggregation of
streams of data of every node become quite challenging task, also it pose challenges to mining
problems, because the result of one node’s mining algorithm must be integrate across the different
nodes of the network.
Further, according to Russom [7], the data that need to be analyzed are not just large, but they are
composed of various data types, and even including streaming data. Since big data has the unique
features of “massive, high dimensional, heterogeneous, complex, unstructured, incomplete, noisy,
and erroneous,” which may change the statistical and data analysis approaches [8]. Although it
seems that big data makes it possible for us to collect more data to find more useful information,
the truth is that more data do not necessarily mean more useful information. It may contain more
ambiguous or abnormal data. For instance, a user may have multiple accounts, or an account may
be used by multiple users, which may degrade the accuracy of the mining results [9]. Sensor data
brings numerous challenges with it in the context of data collection, storage and processing. This
is because sensor data processing often requires

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efficient and real-time processing from massive volumes of possibly uncertain data. Therefore,
Charu Aggrawal [10] introduced several new issues of sensor data processing such as Data
collection, Sensor Mining, Application-Specific issue, security, storage, and quality of data.
Different from traditional data analytics, Baraniuk [11] pointed out that the bottleneck of big data
analytics will be shifted from sensor to processing, communications, storage of sensing data for
its better management and maintenance in one single machine, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Difference of Traditional data and big data analysis on wireless sensor network
2. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Many efficient analysis mining methods exist to analyze the data with respect to structure and
semi-structure format, and those are as given in Table 1:
Table 1: Efficient data analytics methods for data mining

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Most data analysis methods have limitations for big data analysis with regards to Unscalability
and centralization, Non-dynamic and they have uniform data structure. Because the traditional
data analysis methods are not designed for large-scale and complex data, they are almost
impossible to be capable of analyzing the big data.
Several studies attempted to present an efficient or effective solution from the perspective of
system (e.g., framework and platform) or algorithm level. A simple comparison of these big data
analysis technologies from different perspectives is described in Table 2. The “Perspective”
column of this table explains that the study is focused on the framework or algorithm level; the
“Description” column gives the further goal of the study.
Table 2: big data analysis framework and methods

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3. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH
In this article, we reviewed studies on the data analytics from the traditional data analysis to the
recent big data analysis. From the system perspective, the KDD process is used as the framework
for these studies and is summarized into three parts: input, analysis, and output.
From the analysis framework perspective, this study shows that big data framework, platform,
and machine learning are the current research trends in big data analytics system. For the mining
algorithm perspective, the clustering, classification, and frequent pattern mining issues play the
vital role of these researches because several data analysis problems can be mapped to these
essential issues.
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[1] Charu. C. Aggrawal, (2012), “Real-Time Data Analytics in Sensor Networks”, Managing and
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[2] Steve Lohr, The age of big data.Rep. (2012).
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Authors
Kavita Ahuja
(Assistant Professor) received the B.Sc. in mathematics and M.C.A. degree in 2005
and 2008 respectively from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, India,
and currently involved in researcher as a Ph.D. scholar in the area of sensor data
analytics from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, India from
2014, under the guidance of Dr. N. N. Jani (Director, KSV).She is currently working
as Assistant Professor in B.C.A college since 2008.

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N. N. Jani
Currently contributing as Mentor to Institute Industry Interaction Cell of KSV
University at Gandhinagar. He has served Saurashtra University Rajkot For a
period of more than two decades as Prof and Head, Dept of Computer Science till
July 2008 and thereafter as Director at SK Patel Institute of Management and
Computer Studies, Gandhinagar up to Aug,2015with a rich teaching and research
experience of 41 years. He successfully guided 36 scholars who completed their
PhD in Computer Science. He published more than 82 research papers during this
tenure. His research area is:
High Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics, Smart Embedded Systems, Nano Materials
Characterization.

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