Goal: to enable farmers, researchers, and municipalities to collect sensor data (farm management, land and water resource management, laboratory instrumentation) into some local data archive.
It'd be nice to use DAT for this:
- DAT makes it easy to keep track of versions of the datasets (Content addressing.)
- DAT makes it easy and efficient to share the datasets. (Only need to transmit file differentials. Particularly appropriate for timeseries data that is only generated sporadically, and is generally simply appended to the prior dataset.)
- DAT allows for the datasets to be easily replicated and decentralized. (Easy to make backup copies. Easy to share full datasets in a 'mesh network' scenario -- off-grid farms, research lab in field / at sea, town that experiences a power outage, etc)
For simple applications that simply require collecting sensor data (in, e.g., a CSV file) and sharing it as a DAT archive, command line interaction with DAT, and talking to microcontrollers over USB, is