Tuesday, 18 June 2013

McLaren boss: we're already predicting the future with analytics

Wired editor David Rowan interviewing Ron Dennis

The Formula One group is monetising processing power it says is so rapid and complex it can predict the future, by partnering with industry.


"One of our cars is covered in over 100 sensors," Ron Dennis, executive chairman of the McLaren group, told a packed room at the G8 Innovation Conference. "In a Grand Prix they harvest 6.5 billion data points to try and give some sort of visualisation. [Comparing two grand prix], that's 13 billion data points coming at you in real time -- the world's population times two."


By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/18/ron-dennis-mclaren

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