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WHAT COULD THE AIoT OFFER INDUSTRY? Control Engineering Europe spoke to industry experts to find out more about the AIoT and what opportunities it might offer in industrial applications.
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he Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) refers to the adoption of AI capabilities in Internet of Thing (IoT) applications. In simple terms, while the Internet of Things (IoT) is reactive, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is proactive. The AIoT relates to the combination of AI and the IoT with the goal of achieving greater efficiency in complex operations – it looks to improve human and machine interactions and to enhance data driven decision making. AIoT also adds a ‘brain’ to the Cloud and the Edge.
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Q: What effect do you think AIoT will have within the industrial sector? Giuseppe Surace, chief product and marketing officer at Eurotech (GS): AI technologies help companies to leverage the potential of the huge amount of data generated by devices, assets or ‘things’. Immediately sending all this data to the cloud or a data center would require an adequate infrastructure, which would be expensive to deploy and maintain, without taking bandwidth and latency issues into account. Bringing AI, machine and deep learning closer to
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the source of data can help businesses to provide a meaning to the data collected in the field to turn it into actionable business decisions. James H. Chappell, global head of AI and Advanced Analytics at AVEVA (JC): Fundamentally, as companies adopt AIoT they will become more efficient, reduce costs, and improve overall operations including accuracy and safety – and by reducing wastage and reducing their carbon emission during these complex operations they will become more sustainable. AI uses a wide variety of historical data Control Engineering Europe
