Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Welcome, AIoT/IoT Weekly News readers to issue 151. It's been a few weeks since our last update due to the 4th of July holiday break here in the United States and a busy schedule, but I'm back to bring you all the latest in current technology and trends of Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and where they overlap!

First off, please checkout the latest episode of my Conversations on Applied AI Podcast. I was blessed to have had such a lengthy discussion with one of the pioneers of the third wave of AI, Peter Voss. Peter is a legend in his own right and doing some amazing work in the areas of AI with hyper-personalized assistants. Please check it out and make sure you listen and subscribe to all episodes of the podcast as well!

Additionally, we have an awesome Applied AI meetup coming up on August 5th where we'll be going through a Computer Vision (CV) implementation in Pytorch. IoT is all about getting data and applying analytics at the edge and CV is a great example of this. I hope that you can join us!

Finally, for those that might have missed it since the last issue, I was both interviewed by the Minnesota Technology Association (MNTech) regarding the internship program we have at Lab651 and additionally, being recognized by the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce on their 2021 Executive List. I'm humbled and it was a great honor to be included with so many other executives doing great work in the city of Saint Paul.

I hope you enjoy this issue and continue to join me in this journey of exploring and leveraging the power of the Internet of Things and Machine Learning. Please contact me there are ways in which I can help your organization succeed when it comes to implementing these technologies across embedded systems, cloud, and mobile applications. I love to talk with people and learn how I can help. Enjoy!

News

Voice AIs are Raising Competition Concerns

The European Union has been digging into the competition implications of AI-powered voice assistants and other Internet of Things (IoT) connected technologies for almost a year. Today it’s put out a first report discussing potential concerns that EU lawmakers say will help inform their wider digital policymaking in the coming yea

AIoT: The Powerful Convergence of AI and the IoT

"AIoT in simple terms means to make the Internet of Things perform intelligence tasks with the help of integrating Artificial Intelligence."

The Artificial Internet of Things helps to connect IoT devices with sensors that are integrated with AI capabilities – all of these with no human intervention.

6 Trends Happening with the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most prominent tech trends in recent years. In 2020, there were more than 8 billion IoT devices. The number is projected to grow as more industries prepare themselves for Industry 4.0. They start using new technologies, including machine learning, Big Data, and IoT, to build effective

Advantech: Connecting up AI for the Internet of Things

Advantech is in the middle of a key transition to machine learning and AI in the industrial market (AIoT).

"In the past our focus was only IoT but then along came AI," said Linda Tsai, President of Industrial IoT at the company. "In the last three years everyone talked a lot about AIoT but the progress wasn’t there. After Covid I think the AIoT will be adopted in many applications so to shorten the development cycle. But no one company can achieve everything,” she said. “That’s why we are working with regional partners massively to provide the solution."

Experts Debate Whether Github’s Latest AI Tool Violates Copyright Law

GitHub’s impressive new code-assisting AI tool called Copilot is receiving both praise and criticism.

Copilot draws context from the code that a developer is working on and can suggest entire lines or functions. The system, from OpenAI, claims to be “significantly more capable than GPT-3” in generating code and can help even veteran programmers to discover new APIs or ways to solve problems.

Sponsor

You Need an IoT Strategy

To stay relevant in a competitive world, companies, regardless of their size, should plan for successful IoT deployment, just like the industry behemoths.

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Security

How IoT, Machine Learning Will Drive Better Decision Making in Construction

We have now had several years to assess how…Within the construction technology space, it really does seem like the puzzle pieces are starting to fall into place in terms of what solutions will deliver the greatest impacts and which will be left behind.

New AIoT Reference Designs Support Biometric Access Control

The new reference design will extend that utility to other verticals like healthcare, smart cities, smart homes, and smart buildings. In each case, the design combines an ON Semiconductor sensor with Lumentum’s VCSEL technology and an Ambarella AI System-on-Chip solution.

Business

Drought-stricken Communities Push Back Against Data Centers

On May 17, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona, approved the $800 million development of an enormous data center -- a warehouse filled with computers storing all of the photos, documents, and other information we store “in the cloud” -- on an arid plot of land in the eastern part of the city.

Where AI Can Improve the Supply Chain

AI can improve your inventory management and tracking with accurate readings and IoT integration. Thanks to the insights it pulls from data, artificial intelligence determines how much inventory you should have on hand and, if there’s a discrepancy, can source what you need for the best price. It also optimizes the delivery from factory to warehouse to prioritize the transportation of more volatile products.

These 3 Internet of Things Companies Have Incredibly Wide Moats

The Internet of Things -- or IoT, a catch-all phrase for devices getting connected to the internet or another private network -- is reaching mind-boggling proportions. There are more "things" connected to the internet than there are people, and annual spending to manage this interconnected and still-expanding patchwork of electronic devices is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

CyberLink Collaborates With ASUS to Create Smart IoT/AIoT Applications

The fruit of a close collaboration between the ASUS IoT and CyberLink’s FaceMe team, this joint solution provides ready-to-use, fully integrated facial-recognition capabilities for security, access control, visitor management, and contactless experiences for retail, public services, hospitality, and more!

Healthcare

“Electronic Nose” Accurately Sniffs Out Hard-to-Detect Cancers

An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Development

Deep Dive: Getting started with Azure RTOS

Here's a great video that I have found on bringing together the power of Azure IoT into their RTOS. Over the years, our team at Lab651 have looked at many implementations of various RTOS systems for smart products and can help you select the ones that you might want to consider and implement. Contact me if you are looking for experience in helping with running embedded Linux and RTOS.