AI & IOT IN BUSINESS
Raghu Ranjolkar
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Businesses across the world are rapidly leveraging the Internet-of-Things to create new networks of products and services that are opening up new business opportunities and creating new business models. The resulting transformation is ushering in a new era of how companies run their operations and engage with customers.
With the tendency of progress, a selection of new products and aggressive business deployments and artificial intelligence is creating a storm from the Internet of Things (IoT). Companies are willing to top in the race by simply drafting strategies for IoT, reviewing additional jobs on IoT and receiving more values in the current IoT installation using AI.
IoT applications and deployments are greatly influenced by Artificial Intelligence. Whether it is a small investment or a start-up, the companies that have begun to merge IoT with AI has achieved a greater success over the past years. Major of the IoT service providers now offers integrated AI applications based on machine learning analytics. The reason behind the growth of AI is its ability to quickly fetch the insights from the data. The IoT platform software provides machine learning based analytics which is a part of AI to identify the patterns and figure out anomalies in the data generated by the smart sensors and devices- data alike pressure, air quality, vibration, and sound. As compared to the traditional business tools, AI can accurately predict operational demands for the companies 20 times faster.
However, tapping into the IoT is only part of the story. For companies to realise the full potential of IoT enablement, they need to combine IoT with rapidly-advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, which enable ‘smart machines’ to simulate intelligent behaviour and make well informed decisions with little or no human intervention.
AI empowered IoT also helps in increasing the operational efficiency. The predict equipment failure by machine learning can also predict the operational conditions and parameters necessary to maintain the outcome by gulping a constant channel of data in order to detect invisible patterns. It helps in identifying the fraud risk so as to avoid the future downtime. All these predictions and identifications lead to higher operational efficiency.
The early forms of AI were ‘brittle’ and unable to handle all situations with the same level of accuracy. So they were good at narrowly defined tasks, but failed to scale well, and often required human intervention. However, this represents just the first step in the evolution of AI, with the next wave being active intelligence—the ability to act in real time with little or no human intervention. Once devices and machines are enabled with this level of AI, we enter the era of ‘smart machines’.
As AI continues to evolve, the benefits for businesses will be transformational. Given the power and scalability of AI solutions, tasks that used to take humans’ weeks or months to complete will be actionable in minutes or seconds. Also—as with today’s mobile technologies— the pace of adoption by businesses will be augmented by pressure from employees, who will want to experience the same convenience and personalisation of AI applications in their working lives that they’re accustomed to at home.
However, as companies’ direct increasing investment into AI over the next few years, the impacts will extend far beyond business performance—simultaneously generating massive change in the number and nature of jobs in many industries. Essentially, we are set to see growing use of AI in every job and service, triggering reduced demand for low-value, high-volume skills. To scope out how profound these effects will be, and help companies develop their approaches to AI investments and capability building, analysing the potential value that can be generated by AI, and what impacts they can expect on their jobs and skills base.
For greater openings and easy operations, enterprises across the industries are striving more difficult to use AI-IoT approach for giving tough competition in business operation. Predictive capabilities of machine learning have been incorporated with all the service providers like Microsoft Azure IoT, IBM Watson IoT, along with GE Predix. A large number of IoT solutions and bundles take advantage of AI technologies. It is likewise feasible to utilize AI technology with the goods even if it wasn't created with all the eye in your mind.
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5 年Always curious to see what other people think of IoT and AI - fantastic.