Science is constantly evolving, taking humanity to remarkable locations and extraordinary depths. Far edge research projects use land and space vehicles and remote-controlled equipment to collect data continuously during missions. This data delivers critical insights, enabling scientists to learn more about the world, our universe, and the oceans. With this intelligence, we can improve the safety and success of future activities.
BRYCK® allows large data generated during far edge exploration projects to be captured directly at the source. The low power, small and lightweight BRYCK® enables customers to deploy it on all types of edges. Upon completing a data collection iteration, the far edge mobile systems typically reach the base for data uploading. The user simply swaps the data filled BRYCK® with an empty BRYCK® and restarts the data collection by sending the edge system back to the mission instantly. The data filled BRYCK® is transported to the nearby facility through standard shipping practices and data us uploaded within a few hours for processing.
Challenging Volumes of Far Edge Data
Challenging Volumes of Far Edge Data
Quantifying the amounts of data generated by far edge activities is challenging, partly because they are simply too large to visualize.
As this tide of big data continues to swell, NASA, NOAA, and other far edge exploration bodies are experiencing the challenges of data management and storage. Additional challenges include strong vibration or extreme temperatures in edge environments, such as the biting cold of space or the heat found in underground mines.
In 2018, global organizations began collaborating to build the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)1https://www.skatelescope.org, which will become the largest radio telescope ever created and generate 700 terabytes of data every second.
As part of NASA’s space exploration and research activities, hundreds of terabytes of data are gathered every hour2https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/managing-the-deluge-of-big-data-from-space.
Vessels such as the Okeanos Explorer’s remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer collects biological, geological, and water samples during months-long dives3https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/supporting-ocean-exploration-and-data-collection. The data provides the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with critical information about the deep ocean’s physical, chemical, and biological environments.
The NASA-funded QuakeSim project uses GPS data from hundreds of locations to understand how earthquakes occur and develop preventative strategies.
How Companies Manage Edge Data
How Companies Manage Edge Data
Data from these far edge exploration projects is captured using onboard computers and other standard methods. Limited storage capacity means the mission needs to be shortened since the captured data must be transferred frequently to a warehousing or processing facility.
Migration can take place via expensive, high-speed WAN connections. Still, even with a dedicated network capable of transferring 100 Gbps, the SKA’s daily 86,400 terabytes of data will take 958 hours to transfer.
Alternatively, transporting data by road from a moving or far edge location requires uploading it to a vehicle using bulky media systems. These vehicles carry 10 petabytes per trip at most, resulting in multiple trips to the processing facility. Upon arrival at the facility, uploading 50 terabytes of data to the cloud can take a full five days before engineers begin processing and gain access to those insights.
The ability to capture and process massive quantities of data at high speeds from remote, harsh environments, moving and mobile edges is essential to provide data-driven insights on-demand and in real-time.
The ability to capture and process massive quantities of data at high speeds from remote, harsh environments, moving and mobile edges is essential to provide data-driven insights on-demand and in real-time.
BRYCK®: An Innovative New Solution
BRYCK®: An Innovative New Solution
BRYCK® is a pioneering, state-of-the-art data management solution created specifically to address the challenges of migrating massive quantities of data from point to point.
BRYCK® connects and integrates with any program, allowing data to be prepared faster for scrutiny, discovery, and deployment of findings earlier, and lowering the cost of resources required to do so. Organizations involved in far edge exploration projects can optimize operations, reduce cost, and achieve faster.
BRYCK® offers incomparable benefits including:
Capturing large volumes of far edge exploration data right at the source
Exploiting multi-threaded, parallel data transfer protocols to utilize bandwidth effectively
Improving the mission efficiency by eliminating the data upload time at the edge
Migrating data to the cloud or warehouse at 40 Gbps, uploading multiple terabytes within hours
Eliminating the cost of dedicated, high-speed connections
Providing analysts with immediate access to intelligence gleaned from edge data
Transporting data securely to a processing facility within a day using standard shipping methods
Withstanding rugged conditions such as extreme heat, cold, vibration, or impact