The BDE Pilots
The Big Data Europe Integrator Platform provides a flexible, ready to install solution to a very wide variety of big data problems. To test and prove this, the project has run a series of pilots in which different configurations of the platform have been used to address the 7 societal challenges identified by the European Commission. Follow the links below to find out more about the different ways the Big Data Europe platform has been used.
Health
Open PHACTS provides a reliable, large scale source of data relating to biological and medical questions at the early stages of drug discovery idea generation and target validation.
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Food & Agriculture
Tackling the problem of discovering and linking information from different research methodologies across agriculture and food production
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Energy
Managing a large number of distributed energy production systems for operation monitoring, maintenance and production forecasting, handling the stochastic nature of the resource input.
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Transport
Multi-source data collection for the provision of accurate info-mobility and advanced transport planning services in Thessaloniki.
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Climate
Bridging big-data and climate modelling on an institutional infrastructure, to support data-lineage and analytics functionality
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Social Sciences
Comparing budgetary spending across municipalities and borders
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Security
Satellite data combined with social and traditional media to detect and contextualise change on the ground.
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