Wanted: Good Data

摘要

Southern Company Transmission shares experiences from its condition-based maintenance pilot. Tired of the phrase Big Data? What is big data, really? Just how valuable could massive amounts of data really be? There also are those threes Vs of big data: volume, velocity and variety. Think about substations. Is really big data flowing from the substations? What about the struggle to get data from the system? From a substation perspective, is there really a data overload? The answers depend on whom is asked the question.