Data Systems For The Curious

THE CHALLENGE: Managing High-Speed Sensor Data

When working with high-speed sensors measuring vibration, acceleration, or pressure, the data comes in like a firehose — overwhelming and relentless. Traditional systems simply can’t keep up. Critical moments, like sudden spikes or equipment failures, are often missed because outdated systems lose the data before you even realize something went wrong.

THE BRAVO DATA SYSTEMS ADVANTAGE

Bravo Data Systems revolutionizes high-speed data management by capturing and organizing sensor data in real time. With our network cache, you can store up to 30,000 seconds of sensor data—ensuring that every moment is preserved and instantly retrievable. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to actionable insights, available whenever you need them with pinpoint accuracy.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR DATA.

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Success Stories

Highlights of Operational Benefits

  • Has allowed high risk tests to be ran that would not have been allowed to run without it due to real-time monitoring of safety concerns. This was due to knowing that were approaching higher risk conditions and could take actions to reduce risk. This has allowed test conditions to be ran close to high-risk conditions that are very valuable for advanced understanding of phenomena. See ‘Success Story A and B’ for more details. 
  • Has allowed data to be easily captured that would have been very hard and/or impossible to capture that was very valuable to researchers. For research testing the main product is data. These tools allow capturing of these hard-to-find data events, thereby improving the ROI for Test Expense.  See ‘Success Story B’ for more details.
  • Has allowed access to data for events that had “NO IDEA” that event would happen. This has allowed event understanding on first occurrence of event, so that root cause of event could be determined efficiently and accurately.  Knowing root cause in less time has enabled higher up time and lower support costs.  See ‘Success Story C’ for more details.
  • The system allows Sensor Data Feed Simulation so that dashboards are labor efficient to create and summarize complex information in a way that users can interpret quickly.
  • The system allows fast searching from Key Process Indictors (KPI’s) so that it is a high probability that it  will find an anomaly. KPI searching works for High Sample Rate Sensors in both Time and Frequency Domain.
  • System can interface easily with customer existing systems and interfaces with Test SLATE © by Jacobs natively.

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About Me

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I built this patented technology because industries depending on high-speed sensor data needed a better way to manage it. The problem wasn’t just collecting data — it was making it usable, fast. That’s what Bravo Data Systems does.” ~ Paul Smith: Real-time data solutions expert and founder of Bravo Data Systems

With 25+ years of experience and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue, Paul builds custom tools that turn complex test data into real-time insights. His solutions have helped protect millions in sensitive equipment and earned a patent for real-time sensor monitoring.
Paul combines open-source software, smart hardware, and deep industry knowledge to give researchers fast, intuitive access to the data they need — right when they need it.