BROWSING: AI

SEAT and IBM showcase AI for smarter urban mobility

Spanish car brand SEAT is using artificial intelligence (AI) from IBM Watson to bring information and guidance to city residents about their usage of cars, scooters, bikes and public transport. Cars have, invariably, been a feature of Mobile World Congress 2019 this week. SEAT,...

What emerging service assurance capabilities are needed for NFV networks?

  Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...

Where is the current ‘cutting edge’ for network and service visibility?

Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

HERE establishes AI research center in Austria

  The mapping services firm will provide funds of more than $28 million to establish the new facility   Mapping and location services company HERE Technologies is establishing a new artificial intelligence research center. The International Institute for Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI), to be located in...

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Trump enters US into global AI arms-race with detail-light federal investment plan

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to commit certain federal government resources to the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, tools, and services. Trump stopped short of putting a financial value on the investment; instead, he promised wider availability of...

From coffee machines to paint shops: IIoT at the cutting edge – four Software AG use cases

As part of Enterprise IoT Insights' investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating to bring intelligence closer to the action. Here, we present four examples from Software...

Microsoft inks agreement to open AI, IoT lab in Shanghai

  The new facility is expected to be inaugurated in April this year   Microsoft has signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence and internet of things Insider Lab in Shanghai, China, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The memorandum was signed between the...

Is big data more like oil or sunshine?

Metaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We've all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is the new oil that business needs to run. But what exactly does that mean? IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, speaking to...

World Economic Forum’s new Industry 4.0 policy bureau puts focus on AI, blockchain

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations joining the fray. They will help design policies for technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...

Editorial Webinar: AI/ML–Making smart buildings smarter

Machine learning and artificial intelligence-based technologies in the smart building sector are generating new opportunities for value creation in commercial and industrial real estate. Innovations in image recognition, natural language processing and behavioral data are generating a deeper understanding of how occupants interact inside...

Kagan: What to expect at MWC19 Barcelona

Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, is coming soon. This is the largest international wireless trade show and MWC19 is expected to be full of big announcements from the global leaders in wireless. Let’s take a sneak peak, regarding what we can expect...

AI set to drive the global supply chain technology market to $440 billion by 2023

Revenues generated by technology in the global supply chain will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent over the next five years, reaching $440 billion by 2023. Among emerging technologies, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will have the most...

Maintaining cellular growth until large-scale 5G IoT adoption in the mid 2020s (Analyst Angle)

The notion of “peak smartphone” is widely discussed of late, including by the Economist.  Revenues are flattening with longer replacement cycles, saturating markets, resistance to Apple’s price increases, decreasing prices among Android’s fiercely competitive OEMs and allegedly diminishing technical improvements in successive new device...

Vodafone Business, IBM to jointly target enterprise connectivity, cloud, data needs

Vodafone Business and IBM are creating a new venture to target the connectivity, multi-cloud and data needs of enterprises as they more broadly utilize the internet of things. The "eight-year engagement," as the deal was described, is valued at about $550 million. The new venture, which...

Intel, Alibaba to develop AI-based athlete tracking tech for Tokyo 2020

The new technology will use hardware from Intel and cloud computing capabilities provided by the Chinese firm   Intel and Chinese tech giant Alibaba say they are developing athlete tracking technology powered by artificial intelligence that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games Tokyo...

Get ready for even smarter business software (Reader Forum)

AI will make expense reporting, sales, manufacturing and other work applications  a lot more useful—and hopefully less annoying It’s not just your home appliances that are getting smarter. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way not only into homes via Internet-connected speakers, thermostats, and insert-your-favorite-kitchen-gizmo-here. It is also...

Editorial Report: AI/ML–Making smart buildings smarter

Machine learning and artificial intelligence-based technologies in the smart building sector are generating new opportunities for value creation in commercial and industrial real estate. Innovations in image recognition, natural language processing and behavioral data are generating a deeper understanding of how occupants interact inside...

Intel’s AI technology helps protect endangered animals in African reserves

  TrailGuard AI cameras use Intel’s technology to protect wild animals from poachers   Intel's technology is powering non-profit Resolve’s new TrailGuard AI camera to detect poachers entering Africa’s wildlife reserves and alert park rangers in near real-time so the poachers can be stopped before killing endangered...

Qualcomm invests almost $15 million in Baicells with focus on 5G

  The investment will be made via the chipmaker’s investment arm Qualcomm Ventures Qualcomm has led a RMB100 million ($14.55 million) Series B+ round in Baicells Technologies, a Chinese small cell company, for the development of 5G technologies. The investment, which was made through the company’s Qualcomm...

Four ways CSPs can use AI to gain new subscriber insights, out-market OTT competitors and deliver a better customer experience (Reader Forum)

Service providers are sitting on more marketable data than even Google -- but they’ve been slow to harness it for profit. Here are some ways they can turn things around Not even Google can rival the wealth of consumer data that communication service providers (CSPs)...