Smart homes can start from the planning stage of a new build or they can be renovations of existing homes. Add a few controls, use a voice app, and Bingo, you have a basic Smart Home. But true integration and interoperability of IoT (Internet of Things) components requires more thought and planning than many realize. […]
The Air Is Filled with the Sound of –IoT?
Smart cities, smart houses, smart facilities, smart everything depend on the strength of the available communications networks. The IoT (Internet of Things) requires direct and indirect communications, device to device, device to central hub, device to monitoring equipment. The increasing deployment of cellular IoT modules in smart city infrastructure and building automation verticals is expected […]
Integrated and Interlocking
In the early days of desktop computers, “networking” meant Ethernet cables running, of lucky, in conduit—often through false ceilings—all throughout the office. The hub-and-spoke, client-server relationship between nodes on the network allowed minimum transfer of data between workstations. There was still need, in many offices, for “sneaker net” (carrying floppy disks between computers). Times change. […]
Prices up, Get Efficiency up
In case you haven’t been on this planet for a year or so, fuel prices have gone up. And up. And up some more. As rising fuel and maintenance costs add pressure to already slim margins in today’s economy, businesses need robust, data-driven telematics to manage their fleet operations effectively. Even though prices are starting […]
Five AI Applications That Are Changing Our World
Artificial intelligence is concerned with finding ways for computers to perform the same functions as humans. However, computers cannot make decisions on their own, i.e., they cannot make decisions without human intervention. The ability of computers to make decisions with their own intelligence makes machines operate and think like machines, which is what, in general […]
Smart Homes/Unhappy Homes
Smart homes are a reality and a concern. A basic aspect of “smart homing” is that the house and its many smart appliances and functions are connected via the internet, either for diagnostics or remote monitoring or for automatic resupply—the talking refrigerator effect. And while the technology is available to meet most demands, the end […]
Design Modules Speed Construction
If the saying is correct, “Follow the money.” Money, in turn, follows the easiest path. Have a solution to a problem? Money will flow to you once the concept is proven. This is illustrated every day by following the funds from venture capital firms and investors. In the construction industry, money all too often flows […]
Some cloud-based AI systems are returning to on-premises data centers
As a concept, artificial intelligence is very old. My first job out of college almost 40 years ago was as an AI systems developer using Lisp. Many of the concepts from back then are still in use today. However, it’s about a thousand times less expensive now to build, deploy, and operate AI systems for […]
Review: Snowflake aces Python machine learning
Last year I wrote about eight databases that support in-database machine learning. In-database machine learning is important because it brings the machine learning processing to the data, which is much more efficient for big data, rather than forcing data scientists to extract subsets of the data to where the machine learning training and inference run. To […]
Translating Machine Learning Outputs Using Shapley Values
One thing is guaranteed for every data scientist: when you face the problem of classification or regression, you always have to complete a series of actions crucial to the quality of the final output. These actions can be broken down into three steps. Dataset creation, where data is analyzed, cleaned, enriched, and used as the […]
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