What kind of tools are used to build those dashboards and data streaming systems? Anything you'd want to use for regular system monitoring? Looks like part of it might be Gnuplot?
We had a powerful framework to create graphical elements that display values from the hardware.
The previous version of these displays was teletext (do you remember what that is?), with some analog signals sometimes directly overlayed onto them. So, considering we came from that, Java Swing is quite a technology leap :)
It reminds me a bit of the factories or refineries that have elaborate control flow systems. In software, Netflix's Hystrix dashboards are a fun inspiration for example: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/hystrix-dashboard-and-tu...
I've always wanted to build a visualization like that for the systems I work on :-)