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By Susan Schreiner

Tech

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IoT and Big Data: Where's the Action?
Transforming Fitness and Health

Sensors, data, and AI are transforming
clinical health care. New tools are shaping
the relationship between physicians and
patients at home or in the hospital. On
another level, Google's Verily, for instance,
aims to make robots better surgical
assistants using machine learning
and advanced image processing.
Advances in robotics
aim to make better
Miniaturized electronics, low
surgical assistants
power wireless connectivity and
using machine learning
cloud services are enabling the
and advanced image
processing.
development of connected wearables that monitor health and
can produce actionable data for the user,
caretaker or clinician. Connected wearables
such as cardiac rhythm management
ords like "smart" and "connected" signal a profound
devices, ECG monitors, mobile Personal
shift in the relationship between consumers and the
Emergency Response Systems (mPERS),
products they use every day, the way businesses operate
tattoos and wearable computers are
and how cities will function. Soon everything will be connected,
already common in the medical, health
creating a fusion between the physical and digital worlds.
monitoring and enterprise segments -
and are becoming consumerized.
Convolution of Technologies
in the next five years and the proliferation of connected devices and the
Embedded sensors are the eyes and
Smart Cities
massive increase in data has started
ears of the connected world, feeding
AI, IoT and other technologies will radian analytics revolution.
the brain of the global economy by
cally disrupt how cities provide services
receiving continuous data. Sensors at
making life easier and safer for residents.
the heart of the Internet of Things (IoT)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence They will remake every aspect of urban
are linking to cutting edge machine
life, ranging from monitoring activities
AI and machine learning are shifting
vision, visual recognition, technical
like parking occupancy, storm sewer
the IoT conversation beyond the
infrastructure and cloud services as
levels, street lighting and smart water
technical challenges of connecting
well as self-driving cars, health monisystems to improving public safety,
billions of devices and towards how
toring, machinery and even advanced
transportation, policing, electricity, and
smart design, product innovation and
farming technologies. The IoT allows
how city services are delivered. Cities
new use cases can create unique busicompanies to extract data, for example,
need to prepare to accommodate the next
ness and service models. BI Intelligence
from fitness bands and smart home
generation of self-driving vehicles with
forecasts there will be $4.8 trillion in
devices that can be spun into actionable
the necessary infrastructure including
IoT investment between 2016 and 2021.
analytics and insights on the backend.
road modifications, signage and commuAI is shaping the human experience,
Sensors and chips from companies
nications to manage traffic congestion.
as new tools are being built that will
like AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and
While challenges remain, mobile device
give one's senses superpowers. We're
Qualcomm are powering the connected
IoT implementations will generate huge
moving beyond Siri or Cortana phone
intelligent universe. It is projected
quantities of real-time raw data for
chatbots - as digital assistants and
there will be 22.5 billion IoT devices
advanced analytics. With machine learnbots are being created to perform all
in 2021, up from 6.6 billion in 2016,
ing, AI and other technologies, the promsorts of functions. AI plays a significant
according to BI Intelligence. This is
ise includes improved communities.
role in Natural Language Generation
triggering a domino effect in the conas bots learn to decipher human speech,
nected device ecosystem. Companies
particularly when humans are pulling
See the most innovative IoT, AI and
will spend almost $5 trillion on IoT
together vast amounts of data.
data-based products at CES 2018.
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