The California*based startup PlanetOS is on a mission to connect all the Geospatial sensors in the world – in the oceans, in the atmosphere, on land and in space i.e.*big data platform for analysing & discovering data about our planet. In other words, they want to build an operating system for the world!
Planet OS’s goal is to index the public web for geospatial sensor datasets and become the first place every data professional or executive will use to look for sensor data intelligence. – PlanetOS website
We were really excited to talk to their CEO Rainer Sternfeld in a free-winded*chat about PlanetOS and his vision for the company. Here’s the summary.
Planet OS – an operating system for the entire world! How do you create an operating system for the planet? What exactly are you guys working on?
We live in a world where geospatial sensor networks are proliferating at an unprecedented rate, especially in situ sensors deployed from weather stations to drones and imaging technology from drones to nanosatellites. At the same time, there is a growing amount of industries becoming data-driven, from weather/climate forecasting to energy to agriculture and insurance. All of them need more than one type of data in their analysis. The problem is, the diversity of the data types, access protocols and formats makes it impossible to store all of this in one-size-fits-all database, so someone need to be the integration layer for that data. Someone, who has a good understanding of the physical world and the digital world, and can provide secure data hubs to those enterprises, with features like data access, data discovery of open and commercial data, publishing, etc.
Once the data integration and data hub layers exist, it becomes relatively easy to derive meaningful data intelligence from the aggregated data. That’s the gap that we are trying to fill – to become the data infrastructure for our customers, along with access to external content they are not normally exposed to. In short, Planet OS is a cloud-first data infrastructure designed for geospatial sensor networks, Earth Observation and Environmental Intelligence application.
IoT is everywhere and is being used in several different applications. Why did you guys start with sensors from the Ocean. Why environmental data?
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Back in 2009, my co-founder Kalle K
Planet OS’s goal is to index the public web for geospatial sensor datasets and become the first place every data professional or executive will use to look for sensor data intelligence. – PlanetOS website
We were really excited to talk to their CEO Rainer Sternfeld in a free-winded*chat about PlanetOS and his vision for the company. Here’s the summary.
Planet OS – an operating system for the entire world! How do you create an operating system for the planet? What exactly are you guys working on?
We live in a world where geospatial sensor networks are proliferating at an unprecedented rate, especially in situ sensors deployed from weather stations to drones and imaging technology from drones to nanosatellites. At the same time, there is a growing amount of industries becoming data-driven, from weather/climate forecasting to energy to agriculture and insurance. All of them need more than one type of data in their analysis. The problem is, the diversity of the data types, access protocols and formats makes it impossible to store all of this in one-size-fits-all database, so someone need to be the integration layer for that data. Someone, who has a good understanding of the physical world and the digital world, and can provide secure data hubs to those enterprises, with features like data access, data discovery of open and commercial data, publishing, etc.
Once the data integration and data hub layers exist, it becomes relatively easy to derive meaningful data intelligence from the aggregated data. That’s the gap that we are trying to fill – to become the data infrastructure for our customers, along with access to external content they are not normally exposed to. In short, Planet OS is a cloud-first data infrastructure designed for geospatial sensor networks, Earth Observation and Environmental Intelligence application.
IoT is everywhere and is being used in several different applications. Why did you guys start with sensors from the Ocean. Why environmental data?
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Back in 2009, my co-founder Kalle K