AI On our Next Industrial Revolution

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Youths are complaining because of the lack of jobs. Could AI our fourth industrial revolution be playing a role? It’s transforming our job s industry and our lives. Automation in the industrial revolution is helping in boosting production.

The Industrial revolution has shaped the world economy transforming, agriculture, rular areas, urban areas, transport and lively hood of many communities. Production of goods has been depending on human labor on early revolutions which resulted in forced labor and exploitation of people. Fortunately, with the introduction of machines and advanced techniques in iron making, textiles industries among others helped to reduce human-forced labor. The innovation of power loom, flying shuttle, water frame and the spinning jenny in the 18th century made the production of clothes reliable and fast.

The beginning of the 1930s marked the game-changing use of steam-powered engines. It all started in Britain and the rest of the world followed the steps. Britain was known for the large textile industry for cotton, wool, and linen. It was a ‘cottage industry” which relied on a small scale human labor who used dyers, weavers, and spinners.

This was described as the first industrial revolution in human history. In the 19th and 20th century marked the second period of the industrial revolution which was characterized by steel, automobile industries, and electricity.

Types of industries

Industries can be categorized according to products, services they provide and according to a value such as art, knowledge, and infrastructure. There are different types of industries

  1. Agriculture. It was the first industry that contributed to the civilization of men and is characterized by farming fishing among others.
  2. Manufacturing. Its the process of turning raw materials into finished products. It is one of the largest industries covering the automotive industry, electronics steel industry among others.
  3. Service industry. This includes mass media Broadcasting, News Media, Publishing, Internet among others.

Categories of the industry is a huge list including Mining, Telecommunications, industry, Transport industry, Water industry, Construction industry, Energy industry, Electrical power industry, Petroleum industry among others.

Autonomous production systems

The word is now facing the fourth revolution, not of religions, ideologies or nations but technology revolutions where consequences are robots replacing human labor. This fourth revolution is fundamentally disrupting the production in our industries from the way we work, live and connect.

Autonomous production systems are taking shape in manufacturing industries with the contribution of key drivers of these developments. Productions systems are now fully running autonomously with machines optimizing themselves by using high-level technology control systems to communicate and make decisions and also improve the quality of production. This is called lights-out manufacturing. However autonomous technology requires extensive connectivity and automation when the production process is taking place. With the contribution of ML, AI, and IoT, this vision is coming to reality. Many of these visions are already possible in our productions nowadays despite having some parts of the visions missings. Every manufacturer whether small or huge has high expectations for autonomous production systems for their mass production. The autonomous production systems still require manual intervention like programming, assembly, repair of breakdown tools and scheduling of tasks.

Bin Picking Technology

Bin picking is one of the best technology applied in the industrial revolution. It looks, selects, picks and places objects making production easy and fast. It is not easy to rely on it but when combined with a robot it performance is credible.

The main challenge of a bin-picking robot is robots are only good at doing repeatable processes and not different unique tasks. A robot performs one unique task at a time. Applying AI, ML, and IoT helping overcome these challenges. These technologies include;

  1. High Tech Vision systems which help the robot to adapt to the environment and perform different unique tasks.
  2. Robotic tooling has an advanced gripping method enabling it to grab objects randomly regarding their sizes.
  3. Big data application. Bin Picking comprises of embedded vision devices and smart cameras which help to collect and compile data for flexible applications.

Industrial technology may not be destiny but it is making our political economy prevail. It is creating a few employments and huge wealth, the problem is how to distribute this wealth to everyone.

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AI and IoT in Smart Thermostat For Your Smart Home

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If you live near our planet poles either near the north pole or south pole your region may experience seasons and effects of climate change. You have to buy a thermostat to control your room temperature. Have you thought about how it magically it adjust itself?

A thermostat is a system that uses sensors to sense the temperature of your room or your any desired physical system and helps to control and maintain temperature near your desired setpoint. They are used to heat or cool systems in water heaters, streambeds, HVAC systems, air conditioners, building heating, central heating, ovens, refrigerators, and scientific incubators. We have mechanical thermostat and electric thermostats. A mechanical thermostat uses a bimetallic strip in the form of coils to operate directly with electrical contacts to control the cooling or heating.

The early history of Thermostat.

Maybe the earliest thermostat was developed by Cornelis Drebbel a Dutch innovator around 1620. It used mercury to control the temperature of a chicks incubator. Andrew Ure the Scottish invented the modern bi-metallic thermostat in the 1830s. The early industrial application of thermostat was in poultry incubators to control and regulate temperatures.

The digital thermostat no longer uses moving parts to control the temperature but rely on semiconductor devices or thermistors. Its interest that for about 135 years, this HVAC automation control technology had been existing. You can imagine how old cooling systems were, furnaces operating in basements of building pumped hot air inside.

Modern Smart Thermostat

The technology has advanced for 135 years to recent smart thermostats which represent invention and innovation. Smart thermostats have characteristics such as they have vacation modes, connected to the internet, programmable and above all they must include computer algorithms.

How do AI and IoT come to play in this technology?

The IoT Sensors sends communicates with AI to send commands to your modern thermostat and control your room

The AI system needs a lot of data to run and make a decision precisely. IoT collects this data using sensors installed all-around your smart home. The AI cloud receives this data for analyzing and processing. The AI algorithms produce control commands which thermostat receives and helps it to control unit temperatures. The IoT sensors are an indication of how technology has affected the old automated room temperature control systems. This makes the old technology outdated. A smart thermostat has few sensors hence easier to predict using algorithms how much energy it will consume for a given period.

At first, this technology was trial and error but many companies tried to experiment with the technology and now the technology is real and here with us. Many companies are now thinking of thermostat because they will be more useful to provide comfort especially with the crisis of climate change and application of clean energy.

Google Nest Thermostat

Google is known to invest in AI, IoT and machine learning and their nest wifi enabled and responsive products are very common. “All of Google’s investments in machine learning and AI, they can very clearly benefit Nest products. It just makes sense to be developing them together.” Google’s Senior Vice President of Hardware explained.

Nest thermostat is one of their devices. It is one of thermostat out there which learn how your home behaves and adapt to it. You feed it with data manually and adjust it weekly. By doing this you are teaching it to learn for some time. The system also takes accurate data and communicates with HVAC devices using battery energy and AI making it adaptable and responsive hence consuming less energy. It also sends an alert when your battery dies, when there is the overconsumption of energy and when  HVAC device fails.

We can be proud and happy with these devices and continue providing more information about them. They run on autopilot making temperature control automatic. They save energy, time, cost and helps you to focus on what matters.

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How Smart Lighting Bulbs Can Enhance Your Interior.

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There’s nothing more terrible than getting back home only to find every room and all corridors are dark, particularly if your hands are full of luggage and you don’t know to switch on the lights. Imagine a smart bulb that will sense you have come home and helps you, giving you a chance to utilize your voice to command Google Nest and Alexa to turn the lights on. You can also control the brightness and the dim of the lights just right there on your mobile phone using an app.

Philips Hue a colorful LED lamp and white bulbs have applied technology to make it easier for lighting your home with a color that matches your interior. The lighting is controlled wirelessly.

An Apple Store exclusive released the hue system in October 2012. It was marketed as the first iOS controlled lighting appliance. It utilizes the Zigbee high-level communication protocols for control.

This is the advancement and evolution of Thomas Alva Edison works in1879 Although Humphry Davy invented the first electric light in 1802. Humphry also invented an electric battery which he used to light a piece of carbon that glowed when connected with wires. His work was known as an Electric Arc lamp. Unfortunately, his bulb invention produced light for a very short time and was dim hence not good quality. Many inventors tried over the years but didn’t manage to come up with a good bulb for commercial purposes. In 1879 is when Thomas Edison seriously started researching on real practical lighting lamp. On October 14, 1878, Thomas patented his first patent “Improvement In Electric Lights”. He continued testing different materials of metals and on Nov 4, 1879 he patented another patent. This marked the journey of the commercial bulbs we use today.

Philips Hue one of the biggest brands of smart bulbs out there has taken lighting to another lever using recent technologies like AI and Machine learning.

Philip Hue has been using Google Nest and Alexa devices to control lighting but recently they have introduced Bluetooth. Alexa’s an Amazon virtual voice assistant helped to control Philips hue lighting. At first, the software only allowed Alexas to turn light on or of and control dim brightness. Later amazon advanced the software with native tools that helped Alexas to change the colors of the bulb from Philips Hue, TP-link, and Lifx by just telling her “Alexa, make the lights green,” and she’ll make your smart room green. She can also change the color of the different individual groups of lamps as long as you stick to the order in which you established them on your app. She can understand hundreds of different shades and colors. Alexa’s new feature of controlling new different colors placed her in a better place to compete with Google Nest.

With the introduction of Bluetooth, Philips Hue lighting lamps will be more accessible. Setting the color of your room according to the event you are having may it be a birthday party, relaxing mode or dinner. Bluetooth technology provides smart lighting with no interruption or wiring which can help you to choose the right color for decorating your room without painting. There are millions of color selections to decorate your interior.

The Blue tooth app can help you,

  1. Turn the lamps on or off
  2. Control the brightness of the Lights to your preferred settings
  3. Control the color of your interior.
  4. Allow different parties to access the lights and control.
  5. Control your alarm with specific lighting.

Interestingly, Philips Hue with Bluetooth also works with Alexa and Google Assistant directly. This can help you command your room lamps to light up. The Philips hue bridge system helps one to install more lights both in your house or in your house compound.

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Construction Project Risks Management With AI and ML

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Construction is huge and risky. Every construction project is different from the other and needs to be approached differently because of the dangers associated with it. Managing and identifying these risks can be dubious, but not impossible with the rise of technology that is AI and ML. Any mistake when construction is taking place can disrupt and derail the whole project.

There is a history of buildings that were brought down due to a single mistake made during construction. For example In East London, on May 16, 1968, a match stick set off the breakdown of a huge 22-story building. Ivy Hodge, a 56-year-old living on the eighteenth floor, rose and tried to lit her stove, the flash from the match set off an overwhelming gas blast. Many floors collapsed to the ground.

The structure was, in reality, new, its development finished only five days preceding the breakdown. Shockingly, just four residents died in the calamity, while 17 were hurt. Even though the structure was remade and the joints fortified, many couldn’t trust the building.

In order

To identify and manage dangers, one needs to the various type of risks associated with these projects of the construction industry. They can be environmental, contractual, operational, or financial. They can also be either internal or external factors. They include:

  1. Fluctuating material cost. This may lead to contractors using less or low-quality materials.
  2. Unskilled labor. Having unskilled workers on the site can lead to poor decisions.
  3. Risky site conditions. This may make construction to take place on a groud that is not firm and can be affected by earthquakes.
  4. Accidents and injuries can be caused by safety hazards.
  5. Incomplete and poor implementation of defined scope and structure designs.
  6. Corruption and theft in construction sites.
  7. Mismanagement of construction projects.
  8. Construction managers don’t have real-time feedback on progress and quality, unlike their manufacturing counterparts. This makes it hard for them to measure how much work can be completed or if it is being done according to the book.
  9. Labour productivity in the construction industry hardly changes.

These demerits come to fruition and they can affect cost, performance, and schedules which may lead to conflict and delays of the project down the road. Fortunately with technology, proper planning, and good project management its very easy to overcome these challenges and risks.

Doxel is a robot that combines artificial intelligence and machine learning to prevent this from happening. It uses AI technology and computer vision system to give managers real-time feedback on quality schedules, and budget. It is a manufacturing control room for the construction industry.

How does the technology behind it work? Doxel has HD cameras and LIDAR which helps the autonomous devices to scan every corner of the construction site.

The Doxel exclusive AI algorithm forms the visual data, assesses the quality, and measures how much material has been used accurately.

The merit of Doxel technology.

Autonomous AI-based technology. Many technologies out there only captures data on 3D design and leaving the rest to workers on the site to implement the rest. This makes managers keep patrolling the sites trying to fix everything and keeping all plans on track.

Doxel is an AI breakthrough system that uses utilizes visualized captured data to control, inspect quantities and qualities. This game-changer AI robot solution gives real-time quality reports and accurate progress of the construction process.

When it comes to measuring the project budget and schedule, the software gives updates with high accuracy and progress.

The startup is facing early challenges because computer vision algorithms are affected by high-intensity lighting, density and cluttering components. Visibility, occlusion and scattered building materials affect the software negatively. This made the inventors switch from 2d computer vision techniques which requires a lot of datasets to 3d which utilizes fewer datasets for training.

The invention is phenomenally working magically well. Saurabh Ladha the founder of Doxel is proud of his successful and great ending. He has helped in the invention that will tackle challenges that construction face.

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Roads and higways Future with AI

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The world road network is increasing and by 2050 it is estimated it will be spanning over 25 million kilometers. Our roads present human advancement in engineering innovations and technology in our modern world.
Roads were defined as known routes with informal construction and maintenance. Egyptians are known to construct the oldest roads sometimes between 2200 and 2600 BC. In the city of Ur there are traces of paved streets which date back to 4000 BC. In England, we have timbered engineered roads called timber track causeway built 3807 BC during winter or spring 3806 BC. In India, brick-paved streets were discovered as early as 3000 BC. In 312 BC The Roman empire were experts in constructing straight strong stone roads with the help of military help. The Roman Empire had interconnections of 29 major paved roads around 78,000 kilometers. Roads have evolved over time with the influence of revolutions and the rise of different governance.
Classes of roads
Trunk road – Their fundamental capacity is to encourage local dispersion of traffic (intercity connections). They might be national or common streets and the kind of roads found in this class are expressways, dual carriageway, single carriageway primary streets.
Primary distributor Roads – It forms the primary networks of the whole urban area connection. All traffic is determined by these roads and they have restricted access, highly fairly speed and are huge.
District roads – They are minor district distributor roads that connect various residential, business premises and links between the primary network roads within residential premises.
Local road distributors – they link to district roads.
Residential roads – They help people access their houses and also can help people enjoy their exercise activities like running and jogging.

Different associations are researching in engineering to come up with different technologies that apply AI and machine learning to develop more advanced cognitive systems that utilize big data. This could result in innovations in the road network construction which are reliable, durable and which reduce congestion and traffic. Some latest roads innovations which we pride of being;
Pollution-friendly roads
Pollution is not only contributing to one out of eight deaths world, but it cost the world around £3-4 trillion every year.
To measure pollutions organizations like EarthSense Systems has created AI-controlled air quality sensors that can help deal with this declining air quality, especially in urban cities. Utilizing AI, these sensors give continuous estimations of different air quality components to enable governments to address explicit air issues. These can install in the streets and monitor everything.
Reliable road maintenance.
Infrastructure requires continued maintenance and repair. The cost of maintaining and repairing these roads is not the only problem hindering these projects, but also how smart to conduct this maintenance. Enter Roadbotics, a system that utilizes data using AI innovation to sensor road damage and reports the conditions in real-time to city experts to help in fixing damages that could have taken a long time to detect. This data is captured through a cell phone application, which faces the street before a vehicle and observes the area, size, and level of street dangers for investigation.
Traffic control
IBM has been working on cameras controlled traffic light which has a patent granted. The traffic light has been controlled by a timer which cant detect which lane is overloaded with traffic. The thought would be that a system would break down the continuous progression of traffic and after that make a judgment of the most ideal approach to deal with the most overloaded lane and release the vehicles. “In an approach for adapting traffic signal timing, a computer receives a streaming video for one or more paths of a first intersection. The computer identifies traffic within the received streaming video. The computer calculates traffic flow for the one or more paths of the first intersection based on the identified traffic.” From, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9965951&OS=9965951&RS=9965951

AI is becoming more real and applicable to different organizations with the rate which everyone could not think of. We have to sit back and watch what this magic of AI, ML, and IoT will give us or which solutions it will solve or it will create more problems.

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AI security on Smart Cities

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Security is considered being free from any hazardous potential harm which may course damage. Be it a terrorist attack, cyberattack among others. When it comes to smart cities, artificial intelligence is playing an important role.
You may think about a city that empowers helpful, even sumptuous living through brilliant and reasonable houses, strong infrastructure, and digitized administration. The facts confirm that advantages, for example, exceptional degrees of accommodation and availability will separate the urban areas of tomorrow from those of today. Be that as it may, our obsession with such charming advantages frequently makes us neglect the way that keen urban areas can likewise improve the arrangement of fundamental human necessities, for example, safety and security.
While the facts may demonstrate that the world is slowly turning into a more secure to live in, numerous dangers to individuals’ prosperity do exist. Unsurprisingly we are the source of these insecurities. Be it assorted out of slavery, mishaps, arranged burglaries or robberies, there are numerous circumstances where individuals’ prosperity and security might be predicated on the activities of someone else or gathering of individuals. What’s more, anticipating such occurrences is principal among the obligations of brilliant city governors, alongside guaranteeing the satisfactory supply of fundamental necessities, for example, nourishment and water. With that in mind, keen regional authorities can utilize AI, IoT, and ML in physical security.
The safety and security of people in big cities have generally been depended on government departments. A similar will be valid for the smart city to come. Be that as it may, the old strategies utilized by police to screen the city people for any potential threat won’t get the job done to keep up lawfulness later on. Indeed, the police offices in numerous urban communities in many cities are now short-staffed, making it harder for them to guarantee security.
The world population is becoming huge making people move to big cities in search of better life and employment. Henceforth, to support them, governments over the world are utilizing modern technology and innovations for physical security. The utilization of technology like AI in physical safety and security is getting to be ordinary nowadays. What’s more, as smart urban cities keep on developing over the world, such technology will pick up universality and usefulness, giving governments more prominent influence in their journey to guarantee safety and security. How can utilizing IoT and AI affect physical security:
Monitoring people
Keep Check on a huge group in open places for any potential security occurrences is significant for safety. For example, recognizing an individual who might convey explosives or weapons can be a genuine issue.

Utilizing various kinds of IoT sensors can continually be watchful for suspicious and conceivably destructive things. For example, examining gadgets can identify items made of specific materials and observe their shape, regardless of whether they are avoided the plain sight.

Real-time Video analytics
CCTV had been used in the past. Unfortunately, it only helps retrospectively analyze crimes that have been already committed hence cant prevent realtime crime. This drawback is effectively fixed with the assistance of video investigation, where deep learning AI analyses real-time video. Any irregularities, for example, premonition pointers of brutality can be distinguished by this software and tell the adjacent workforce there is a danger. This may help in snappy response to wrongdoings or even counteractive action of numerous criminal demonstrations.

High-security areas Access control
Access to high-security territories, for example, airplane terminals, banks, control plants, government server farms, and army installations can be limited by AI and IoT. IoT-fueled security entryway security frameworks can guarantee that alone approved workforce can enter key government offices. Multifaceted verification, which may incorporate biometric examining, can be utilized to add further layers of security to the most delicate pieces of such offices.

Robotic police and drones
The utilization of AI-controlled security robots can conceivably dispense the requirement for human labor. Robots can patrol and recognize potential dangers with the assistance of forefront sensors and cameras. They can keep off threats from happening just by their simple nearness and can execute fundamental security missions like group control and search activities, once in a while with more prominent viability than human officials. So also, drones can be sent to screen open places and tell a close-by security workforce if there are potential dangers.

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Could AI help fight climate change?

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You are worried and am worried about what could be our solution to climate change. One thing you can agree and I agree is climate change is not a hoax or science fiction.
According to climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ Our planet’s climate has changed over time. Throughout 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of frigid development and retreat, with the sudden end of the last ice age around 7,000 years back denoting the start of the cutting edge of our planet climate moments and civilization. A large portion of these atmosphere changes is credited to extremely little varieties in Earth’s ozone layer that change the measure of sun rays that enters our planet.
The current global warming trends are extremely likely contributed by our daily activities which are non-friendly environmental since the mid-20th century.
Earth-circling satellites and other high-tech advances have empowered researchers to see the comprehensive view, gathering a wide range of data about our planet and its atmosphere on a worldwide scale. This assemblage of data collection, gathered over numerous years, uncovers the sign of an evolving atmosphere. It shows how different gases and carbon dioxide trap heat on our planet.
The world and especially Europe has recorded the highest temperature record in history during the summer of 2019. Visitors skipped in wellsprings to cool themselves, experts and volunteers helped the sick, homeless and elderly. Trains were dropped in Britain and France, and French specialists asked explorers to remain at home. Paris region hit 41.6 degrees Celsius (106.9 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record of 40.4 C (104.8 F) set in 1947. Experts said the temperature was all the while ascending, because of hot, dry air originating from northern Africa that is caught between cool stormy frameworks.
Will artificial intelligence fix this greatest threat facing humanity since its seen as a magical fix-all? How can AI help fight climate change?

  1. AI will help invent new energy production materials. Scientists are researching new ways to harvest, store and use clean energy more in our efficiently. It is slow and imprecise discovering and inventing these new methods. AI Technology can accelerate these processes by discovering, evaluating and designing new chemical structures that have desired properties. This will help create solar panels that can harness sunlight energy or identify ways that will create more reduce releasing more carbon dioxide.
  2. Afforestation. Global green-house effects are contributed by cutting down trees. Computer vision and satellite image caption help to study the loss of forest at a much greater scale. Sensors with great algorithms help detect illegal activities and stop them.
  3. Predicting how much more electricity needed. Some algorithms calculate, forecast energy demands based on weather behavior and environmental behavior.
  4. Improve Agriculture. Our agribusiness is commanded by monoculture, the act of delivering a solitary harvest on an enormous piece of land. This methodology makes it simpler for farmers to deal with their fields with tractors and other essential computerized instruments, yet it additionally strips the dirt of supplements and decreases its profitability. Subsequently, numerous farmers depend vigorously on nitrogen-based manures, which can change over into nitrous oxide, an ozone harming substance multiple times more intense than carbon dioxide. Robots keep running on AI programming could enable ranchers to deal with a blend of yields all the more adequately at scale, while calculations could enable farmers to foresee what harvests to plant while, recovering the strength of their territory and lessening the requirement for composts.

AI, similar to all innovation, does not generally make the world a superior spot – yet it can. It can empower remote detecting and programmed observing, like detecting calamities and weather patterns which will help in planning for any hazardous disasters.

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Amazon robots for efficient package and delivery

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Can you think of a company that knows us better than we know ourselves? Imagine your wife is pregnant and Amazon sends her gifts for your baby and surprisingly the company knows even the gender of the child and no one has told them.


Amazon, is known to collect and store a lot of data. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos using his philosophy of “lament minimization system”, which portrayed his endeavors to battle off any second thoughts for not taking an interest sooner in the Internet business blast during that time. In 1994, Bezos left his work as VP of D. E. Shaw and Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he started to chip away at a marketable strategy for what might progress toward becoming Amazon.com.


On July 5, 1994, Bezos at first consolidated the organization in Washington State with the name Cadabra. He later changed the name to Amazon.com. a couple of months after the fact, a legal advisor misheard its unique name as “cadaver”.In its initial days, the organization has worked out of the carport of Bezos’ home on Northeast 28th Street in Bellevue, Washington. In September 1994, Bezos bought relentless.com and quickly viewed as naming his online store Relentless, however companions disclosed and advised him the name sounded somewhat evil. He chose the name Amazon by glancing through the dictionary since it was a spot that was “fascinating and extraordinary”, similarly as he had imagined for his Internet venture.


It started as a bookstore, which later moved to the online bookstore in July 1995. It is services were all over the 50 states and over 45 countries. His parents helped him by investing almost $250,000 in his start-up.
Todays Amazon is more advanced. It’s a company fulfilling new technology dreams such as robotic machines, space travel systems that deliver customer orders and services in the most efficient way possible.


Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple are taking advantage of this error of big data to advance their service, research and invent new ideas applying Artificial Intelligence. Amazon is at the cutting edge of the extreme change in this big data age that we’re encountering right now. Amazon simply researches the commercial center, making it probably the biggest market on the planet.


They have invented a hybrid aircraft drone called Amazon Prime Air. Its future conveyance robot drone from Amazon intended to securely get packages to clients in 30 minutes or less utilizing unmanned airborne vehicles, additionally called automatons. Prime Air can improve the administrations we as of now give to a huge number of clients by giving quick bundle conveyance that will likewise build the general security and effectiveness of the transportation framework.


The new hybrid aircraft utilizes a blend of thermal cameras, profundity cameras, and sonar to identify risks. With the assistance of AI models, installed PCs can naturally recognize snags and navigate around them.


Even though the drones are being tried as an approach to deliver organs and blood to remote areas, this mode of delivery still appears a far off thought. It is indistinct how such dependably robot could explore, or how they will escape from hitting things on the off chance that they experience a glitch. What’s more, it would be a major risk for an independent robot aircraft out there with expensive or valuable goods trying to figure out where to land.


Amazon is chipping away at these issues, however. The VP of Amazon Gur Kimchi explained in an interview that these robot aircraft incorporates a vision and a navigation system that lets it spot and avoid any obstruction.


We just have to sit back and watch where this thing of machine learning and artificial intelligence will shape the future of how we order, deliver and consume our daily products.

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Smart Elevators with AI and IoT

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You have at one time used an elevator, but do you take time to ask yourself how does it work? Do you have fears it could fail? Let’s take a look at the technologies behind the elevators.


Evolution of Elevators
An elevator is a transportation device that moves goods or people from one floor to another, either upwards, downwards or sideways. In manufacturing and agriculture, it is considered a type of conveyor platform or an enclosure used to lift materials in a continuous stream.


The first elevator according to the Roman architect Vitruvius was built by Archimedes probably in 236 BC. Most of these ancient and medieval elevators were operated by humans, animals, water wheel power or wind.
They later evolved and by the 19th century, they were powered or steam-driven. By 1870s the steam-powered elevator started to be replaced by hydraulic machines. In 1853 Elisha Otis an American inventor invented brakes used in today’s modern lifts spearheading the construction of skyscrapers. By the end of 19th Electric elevators were being introduced. In 1887 a black inventor Alexander Miles in USA patented an electric elevator, though the first one was built in 1880 by Werner von Siemens a German inventor.


Main Types of Elevators
There are different categories of elevators depending on their use and how they are made.
Hydraulic elevators are used to move up and down for a building with lower story building.
Traction elevators are most commonly built today. They use ropes and can be geared or gearless.
Climbing elevators – Most of them are used in construction sites and have either combustion engines or electric powered.


Application of AI in elevators

Huge skyscrapers are run by elevators and without them running the business in these buildings would be a huge challenge.

Imagine you enter an elevator, it figures out what floor you want to go, based on previous data collected. To your surprise, this is coming to be a reality. Microsoft’s research has pushed this idea to another level by applying artificial intelligence. They set up several sensors around the elevators. They keep a track record of people by recognizing their faces and watching what they are doing. The systematic studies how people behaved and get to know their intended intentions. This data was used to make an AI system that could represent the user of the elevator.


This sounded impossible many years ago, but things are changing drastically with technology and the Internet of Things (IoT). How can a device predict your future? It’s very simple to associate the entrance door of a structure to the lift framework. When you enter the structure the lift realizes you’re coming. So it can be hanging tight for you. However, at that point it has just realized you have arrived, it doesn’t have an inkling where you need to go. Or on the other hand isn’t that right? A great number of people have a work area on a specific floor.

Indeed, even the vast majority that works in an adaptable office still goes to a similar piece of the structure each day). So the lift framework can recall the floor you typically go to in the first part of the day. This still can’t be called intelligence, it’s simply recollecting.


Fortunately again the Internet of Things will support us. Your computer, phone or tablet holds your journal. Your journal tells you have a meeting on the twelfth floor, associate your smart devices to the lift framework utilizing it and the left knows where you need to go.


Genuine machine knowledge emerges when the lift framework utilizes all information from sensors and frameworks, through IoT arrangements, joins it with authentic information on which it performs enormous information, examination and gains from past encounters, to at long last settle on astute choices that will astonish individuals on the grounds that your lift truly seems just before you understand you need it.


In conclusion the mix of every single present day innovation, AI, it, Big data examination and machine knowledge makes the elevator a cutting edge sort of robot that uses a wide range of contribution to be in your administration. I can’t see the future, but it can predict it.

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Make your home intelligent by integrating Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence is currently a hot item. Houses are becoming increasingly intelligent. Custom made artificial applications. Self-learning systems, so that your house is prepared for the future. The possibilities are almost endless.

Smart House

AI was introduced into devices through simple speech and video recognition. Nowadays it’s more advanced and is used in all kinds of electronic equipment, such as washing machines and refrigerators, even smart thermometers. It’s all meant to make life easier and make processes more efficient, so you have more time for other things. The era of home robots has also arrived, assisting you with all kinds of tasks. These robots can even be connected to other devices in your home to work with

What is AI and what is the purpose

AI is artificial intelligence. These can be devices with pre-set executive rules, programmed computers. AI was created with this kind of simple implementations. The idea is that devices or robots can perform more and more and ultimately become just as autonomous as humans. Eventually, after programming certain implementing rules, AI will become self-reliant by being self-learning, this will allow AI to function at the human level and to work cooperatively as a human.
This will make life at home less rushed through artificial assistance.

What is that self-learning capability actually?

The AI ​​system itself uses statistics and experience gained to improve the tasks to be performed. Just about the way humans learn but a lot faster. For example, the AI ​​system can analyze and adjust the preferences, dislikes, spending patterns, sleeping behavior, general well-being, the requested home environment and the biological clock. A simple example is the adjustment of the ambient light color to the daily activities and rest periods.

Some AI applications for the home

  • Voice control. Intelligent speakers from Google Home and Apple HomePod and SiRi supplemented with software intelligent implementation & decision assistants.
  • AI talking fridge in the kitchen. Speech-driven systems such as Alexa get a grip on smart food cooking.
  • Resident recognition. Unlock the door lock, turn on the lights, activate pleasant temperature and more.
  • Smart televisions. Automatic adjustment of viewing experience, such as the environment where the viewer is located, programs adapted to the wishes of the viewer. In short, a television that knows what you want.
  • Smart lighting. Lighting that communicates with other lights in the house and can also be matched with certain devices. Ultimately also in collaboration with speech recognition

These were a few examples of application for an AI house, the possibilities are great.

Is there a danger behind the use of AI?

The idea that devices and robots become self-aware can be frightening. It is not strange that there are reservations about the introduction of AI in the smart home. Safety is essential and comes first. Ultimately, we are the one who determines the implementing rules with which AI can operate. The AI ​​may of course not lead its own life. It is important to monitor this and take timely action in the event of errors.

However, cybercrime is a considerably greater danger. Hacking like a joke is still there. But what if blackmailers, criminals and dubious high-tech companies and less fresh action groups or malicious powers manipulate the AI ​​systems for the smart home?

Prevention is better than cure. Suppliers and networks may be required to protect their systems against intrusion, breaches of privacy and manipulation by third parties. European regulations for cyber security cannot be missing in this.

AI in the smart home is no longer a hype. Intelligent living and working is just a must for the coming decades. This integration is already taking place enough. AI systems can be purchased everywhere nowadays.

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