The Internet of Things is the current hype, but what kinds of challenges do we face with the consumption of big amounts of data? With a large number of smart devices generating a huge amount of data, it would be ideal to have a big data system holding the history of data. However, processing large data sets is too slow to maintain real-time updates of devices. The two requirements for real-time tracking and keeping results accurately up to date can be satisfied by building a lambda architecture.