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Predictive Maintenance Proving Out as Successful AI Use Case 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   More companies are successfully exploiting predictive maintenance systems that combine AI and IoT sensors to collect data that anticipates breakdowns and recommends preventive action before break or machines fail, in a demonstration of an AI use case with proven value.   This growth is reflected in optimistic market forecasts. […]

AI World 2019 Reporters’ Notebook: European Commission Warning On Data Privacy; News from Exelon, PARC, CVS, and More

The AI World Conference & Expo is packed few days with news emanating from the Expo floor, the plenary sessions, a hackathon and tracks. There’s more good stuff than a writer can possibly fit into post-event coverage. Our Reporters’ Notebook comprises some of the bits and pieces that we collected over the three days in […]

Industrial Internet Consortium Creates Vision on AI for Industrial IoT

The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™), which works to accelerate the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has announced it is leading the vision for industrial artificial intelligence (AI) with new bodies of work and will be sharing insights at the IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC). Building on the successful Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report (IIAF), which […]

Pre-built Analytic Modules Will Drive AI Revolution in Industry

By Bill Schmarzo, CTO, Big Data Practice of EMC Global Services What is the Intelligence Revolution equivalent to the 1/4” bolt? I asked this question in the blog “How History Can Prepare Us for Upcoming AI Revolution?” when trying to understand what history can teach us about technology-induced revolutions.  One of the key capabilities of the […]

How New Business Models Are Combining the IoT and Services

By Timothy Chou, IoT Lecturer, Stanford University If you work for a company that produces such items as heating, ventilation and air conditioners, 3D cardiac imaging machines, seed drills or submersible pumps, chances are that you’re already aware of the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). All of us in the tech community are […]

Executive Interview: Richard Soley, CEO of OMG

Industrial Internet Consortium Members “Invent the Future” by Anticipating Disruptions from AI, Pursue Standard Testbeds to Accelerate Adoption Dr. Richard Soley is Chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In a career in the computer industry approaching 40 years, he has overseen a range […]

Industrial IoT Analytics Moving Into Prime Time

Implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) program isn’t exactly like flipping a switch. There’s a lot involved, from sensors where the data is initially collected to the network the data travels to the analytics systems that figure out what it all means. So while we’ve all been talking about IoT for a few years now, […]

Set up Your Operations Tech and Data Science Teams for Success

No professionals are more important to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) than data scientists. Data scientists are charged with taking vast amounts of raw industrial data, creating structure within that data, and ultimately finding valuable meaning. In other words, let’s dump a bunch of dirty data on these data scientists, tell them whatever we […]

Flood Sensors Wade into Artificial Intelligence Across Iowa

Worried about the possibility of flooding near your home in Iowa? Soon, you can just ask Alexa. The move to merge flood sensor data with artificially intelligent chatbots marks the next generation of flood data analysis available all across Iowa. The project is being led by the Iowa Flood Center, based at the University of Iowa, […]

From 2017 AI World: Real-Time IIoT in Action at Smart Community Center; AI driving chip architecture at the edge

A smart building in Kawasaki, Japan called the Smart Community Center, has 35,000 sensor devices in it, possibly the premiere example today of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in action. Announced in later 2016, the partnership of Dell EMC and Toshiba is developing a testbed to make sense of the data from the many […]