An event monitoring, identifying and predicting system comprises at least one database comprising an incoming sensor data stream; a plurality of available data processing engines requiring engine-specific event identifying instruction sets; an abstraction engine configured to receive at least one engine-agnostic event identifying instruction set and convert the at least one engine-agnostic event identifying instruction set to an engine-specific event identifying instruction set suitable for a selected one of the plurality of available data processing engines; a user interface comprising a data processing engine selector by which a user can provide an engine-agnostic event identifying instruction set and select a available data processing engines; and a report generator configured to provide an output result of processing at least a portion of the incoming sensor data stream by the selected data processing engine according to the engine-specific event identifying instruction set.