現在布瑞恩可以使用軟件和傳感器連續監測他在亞利桑那州圖森兩個自助洗車行液體化學品的使用。以往大量有用的信息，一些所稱的大數據曾經只提供給大公司，現在這些正變得越來越便宜，適用于各種小型企業。
今年27歲的布瑞恩待在在他亞利桑那州圖森汽車清洗設備房，通過他的清潔用品設備和自動售貨機提示確定下一步做什么。
“我們有機器自動測大小和洗汽車，混合化學品，啟動泵，打開燈，我這里還是采用手工計數的庫存，”他說。
通過在線搜索他介了解到FileMaker Pro，這是一個為小企業定制的軟件產品并可以用iPads操作，Janezic就想為他自己和他的三個遠程員工配置這么一套，更不用說他父母在亞利桑那州六個洗車行的員工了 。（更多全球資訊請點擊瀏覽）
“現在我們在自己的手上就可以看到我們的任何網站，”他說，文檔創建的人還為我們建了PDF購買訂單，我們可以向當地任何一個供應商或在線供應商下單。”
這只是一部分的方便處。在 Janezic對洗車化學品安裝傳感器前，監測使用意味著要去操心每一個滾筒，注意液體水平線，一周要測一次。加侖消耗除以洗的車量告訴他每洗一輛用了多少。
“現在我們能夠持續不斷監控這些水平線，”他說。“所以在一周內不再只有有兩個數據點，我們將會會有500個數據點。相信在我們整個公司是可以做到這些的。”

Brian Janezic uses software and sensors to continuously monitor the use of liquid chemicals at his two self-service carwashes in Tucson, Ariz. A wealth of useful information that some call big data, once available only to big corporations, is becoming increasingly affordable and available to a variety of small businesses.
Brian Janezic, 27, was in the equipment room of one of the two Auto Wash Express self-service locations he owns in Tucson, Ariz., going through his cleaning supplies and vending machine items to determine what to reorder, when it hit him.
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“We have machines that automatically size and wash a car, mix chemicals, activate pumps, turn on lights — and here I am still counting inventory by hand,” he said.
An online search introduced him to FileMaker Pro, a software product well suited to small businesses and tailored to the iPads that Janezic envisioned for himself and his three remote employees — not to mention the employees serving the six Arizona Auto Wash Express locations owned by his parents.
“Now we can pull up any of our sites and see what’s on hand,” he said. And FileMaker “creates a PDF of a purchase order for us to send to one of our local suppliers or an online supplier.”
That was only part of the savings. Before Janezic installed sensors on the carwash chemicals, monitoring use meant taking a yardstick to each drum, noting liquid levels and measuring again a week later. Gallons consumed divided by the number of cars washed told him how much of each solution was used per wash.
“Now we’re able to monitor those levels continuously,” he said. “So instead of having two data points in the span of a week, we’ll have 500 data points. And we can do that across our entire company.” （更多全球資訊請點擊瀏覽）