Dense data acquisition, storage and retrieval

Systems and method implement end-to-end capture of data fluents, the treating of said data locally, transmission of the data to a scalable server infrastructure, and retrieval and visualization of the data in a computationally efficient manner. Data is retrieved using a local electronic device that immediately time stamps data values and stores the values on a local buffer in order to compensate for any wireless signal vagaries. Local wireless configuration of the device consists of wireless-based configuration interactive menus, enabling high ease- of-use during setup and administration. Data is then communicated during times of Internet connectivity to an online data storage repository. The online data repository, in turn, resamples the incoming data across temporal resolutions to aggregate efficiently for data visualization at any temporal resolution downstream, then provides data retrieval services for Internet-based visualization algorithms that request and serve data at appropriate resolutions for user need.