I just researched about Machine Generated Data from the context of “Big data”, Here’s the list I compiled:
– Data sent from Satellites
– Temperature sensing devices
– Flood Detection/Sensing devices
– web logs
– location data
– Data collected by Toll sensors (context: Road Toll)
– Phone call records
– Financial
And a Futuristic one:
Imagine sensors on human bodies that continuously “monitor” health. How about if we use them to detect diabetes/cancer/other-diseases in their early phases. Possible? May be!
Interesting Fact:
Machine can generate data “faster” than humans. This characteristics makes it interesting to think about to analyze machine generate data and in some cases, how to analyze them in real-time or near real-time
Ending Note:
Search for Machine Generated Data, you’ll be able to find much more, it’s worth reading about from the context of Big Data.
Thanks:
http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/08/machine-generated-data-example/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-generated_data
http://tdwi.org/articles/2012/10/23/machine-generated-big-data.aspx