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How do AI and IoT work together?

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Bob Roger
·Oct 13, 2021·

4 min read

As artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the Internet of Things (IoT), grows increasingly prevalent, it is both crucial and beneficial to understand how these two significant phenomena interact to benefit both professionals and the general public.

How can AI be used to manage and perhaps enhance the IoT rollout?

First, IoT creates a lot of data. They may be gathered and studied (thus the term "big data"). The sheer volume of data makes manual tracking impossible. AI will be important in tracing – looking over IoT data for actionable trends. Here are a few instances of how AI and IoT projects may enhance results in power, health care, systems engineering, and security.

The IoT solutions success depends on AI. Artificial intelligence duplicates the task. Previously only available to humans, AI has revolutionized almost every aspect of people's lives.

We have established the Internet of Things to allow data flow between devices over the internet. IoT relies heavily on high-speed internet connectivity. IoT and AI have been working together for two years now, generating enormous amounts of data that we may utilize to give meaningful outcomes.

IoT may use algorithms to manage data and machine learning to transform it while AI helps to monitor operations and derive essential insights from data.

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Maintaining power

Consider your home thermostat as an instance of how AI can control and integrate IoT for astonishing results. What happens if it's linked to an IoT device, and it's abnormally hot with power outages at the power company? Historically, the system would overflow, causing the company to spend time and money resolving customer complaints.

In the future, utilities will monitor the number of linked devices and prevent a brownout by raising everybody's thermostat by three degrees.

Artificial intelligence might alert utility workers to an impending power loss that requires human intervention. Alternatively, AI might be more intelligent and set thermostats three degrees ahead of time in homes and non-essential businesses while keeping temperatures steady in hospitals and temperature-controlled warehouses.

Though both the Commercial and Industrial IoT system is a considerable improvement over the non-IoT system, the addition of AI leads to even better predictive or proactive output.

Assuring your survival

Keeping one's cool is a privilege, but not one's life. With the use of wearable sensors, physicians and nurses can provide better treatment than ever before. While Fitbits and Apple Watches are handy as many more wearables evolve, they will be able to alert your doctor if you have a heart attack. So AI and IoT in healthcare is an excellent place to start.

A control layer based on AI might take this to the next level. If the alarm goes off, technology can get you an ambulance while notifying the clinic and your doctor. It then activates and drives your doctor's autonomous car (another IoT gadget) to the hospital. Thus, adding AI into IoT may help you save precious minutes. What's more? In a recent study, AI outperformed physicians in predicting heart attacks.

Things that seem tedious yet are vital

Also, AI can help IoT with system design and privacy. The Internet of Things includes anything from simple sensors to sophisticated gadgets with natural intelligence. Individuals now select how clever each IoT stratum should be. However, as AI improves, it will understand IoT data and identify places where better sensors might provide more information to help humans make better decisions. Using simpler IoT sensors may save us money.

AI will help secure the IoT by predicting and eliminating threats faster than humans. Machine learning is already used for IoT devices and cyber security. This tendency is expected to continue. In many respects, AI is a double-edged blade. Cybercriminals may use it to find and exploit IoT device vulnerabilities.

If we employ AI and IoT solutions wisely, they can bring incredible advantages to individuals and the globe. We can do that AI, and IoT cannot (yet) remain optimistic and hope that we continue to improve our health, energy use, and security in a constantly changing environment.