IBM Quarks

2016: Announcement

On February 16, 2016 IBM provided the new open building tool of applications Quarks. With its help equipment manufacturers and programmers can create the effective software using data from different sensors within the concept of Internet of Things (Internet of Things, IoT), reports the TechCrunch edition.

The producer notes that Quarks is developed from scratch on the basis of technologies open source (Open Source) and the computing IBM Streams platform. The last allows to accept quickly, to analyze and compare data on a measure of receipt them from thousands of sources in real time. IBM Streams is capable to process data with very high capacity — prior to several million events or messages per second.

IBM provided the building tool of IoT-applications

The main task which was set by founders of Quarks for this product is opening of an easy and effective way of use of the data arriving from numerous network devices in real time.

For example, it is possible to trace physical indicators of patients with diabetes by means of wearable devices or health of miners and oil producers, having put on them a helmet with different sensors. All this information can arrive on servers of the company or medical institution for the further analysis.

Because thanks to IoT-solutions doctors can watch over health of patients far off, Quarks will probably be connected to the Watson Health platform. IBM did not announce such interaction.

To the middle of February, 2016 the Quarks project only began to develop. IBM is going to create community of the companies and developers supporting these tools of software development. The producer also hopes that over time Quarks will become the standard in creation of software for Internet of Things.^[1]

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