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There are varying estimations on how many billions of devices will be connected to the internet in the near future, but what is certainly plausible is that the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices will well outstrip the number of people using them.
Enterprises, however, must be cognisant of not flooding the market — and in particular their business — with the unnecessary simply because of a fear of missing out.
Didascalou pointed to UK-based company Vantage Power and its CEO Alexander Schey’s mission to reduce the number of people that end up with respiratory disease.
Vantage Power also electrified all of the red buses in London, but the company hit a roadblock and had to break down its problem into smaller parts.
“Breaking a bigger problem down, the company put these new electric motors in these buses and they all worked great in the beginning and then they started failing. That’s not a good idea if you’ve got a full bus of people and it doesn’t work,” Didascalou explained.
“Because it’s not yet matured technology, we need to figure out how they work, and what they did was they were ingesting all of the measurement data from all of the batteries — one trillion data points — they used analytics to process in SageMaker, they built a model using AWS IoT Greengrass.
“It’s mind-blowing, they can predict a month in advance if one small cell in any of their batteries will fail, and then they can arrange a service.”
Disclosure: Asha McLean travelled to AWS re:Invent as a guest of AWS
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