{"id":25681,"date":"2017-07-04T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=25681"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:23:49","slug":"artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Can Be a Catalyst Across Most Cycles of the IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span 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ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#A_scary_rate_of_IoT_data_growth\" >A scary rate of IoT data growth<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#Why_coupling_IoT_and_AI\" >Why coupling IoT and AI?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#The_areas_AI_can_be_applied_to\" >The areas AI can be applied to<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#Associated_challenges\" >Associated challenges<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#Implementation\" >Implementation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#Related_slides\" >Related slides<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#Related_reading\" >Related reading<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/#About_the_speaker\" >About the speaker<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_scary_rate_of_IoT_data_growth\"><\/span>A scary rate of IoT data growth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Internet of Things (IoT) is covering the gamut of industries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/iot-in-healthcare-the-internet-of-caring-things\/\">healthcare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/iot-for-airlines-smart-baggage-tracking-with-rfid-tags-and-cloud-foundry\/\">aviation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/honda-improves-the-safety-of-connected-cars-with-ibm-bluemix-watson\/\">automotive industry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/2016-2017-trends-industry-4-0-or-industrie-4-0\/\">predictive maintenance<\/a>, and many more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22568\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ahmed-banafa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ahmed-banafa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Banafa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-22568\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Ahmed Banafa<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;IoT helps cities to predict accidents and crime as well as gives doctors real-time insight into information from pacemakers or biochips,&#8221; said Ahmed Banafa of San Jose State University at a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/webinars\/ai-as-a-catalyst-for-iot\/\">webinar<\/a>. &#8220;IoT optimizes productivity across industries through on equipment and machinery, creates truly smart homes with connected appliances, and provides critical communication between self-driving cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most enterprises seem to be able to think of something uniquely valuable to them, as it looks like the IoT will soon be adopted by a majority of companies. Gartner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in 2016, for example, that 43% of organizations surveyed would have an IoT deployment by the end of the year, with another 21% planning to deploy IoT this year and beyond. The numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcareitnews.com\/news\/87-percent-health-organizations-plan-adopt-iot-technology-2019-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\">rise<\/a> to 60% and 87%, respectively, in the healthcare business, according to another source.<\/p>\n<p>Projections say IoT will represent several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/publications\/2017\/hardware-software-energy-environment-winning-in-iot-all-about-winning-processes\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of billions of dollars<\/a> per year soon. However, such projections vary, as Ahmed referenced to the Gartner forecast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\" target=\"_blank\">20.8 billion connected things<\/a> in use by 2020, while other forecasts put it as <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/popular-internet-of-things-forecast-of-50-billion-devices-by-2020-is-outdated\" target=\"_blank\">50 billion and beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe sheer volume of data being collected as IoT starts to penetrate almost all aspects of our lives.\u201d<\/em> \u2014Ahmed Banafa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, data volumes are growing at a scary rate. The Internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/solutions\/executive-perspectives\/annual-internet-report\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">handled<\/a> more than a zettabyte (one million petabytes) of data this year, and is growing at a rate exceeding 20% per year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_coupling_IoT_and_AI\"><\/span>Why coupling IoT and AI?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Overall statistics aside, individual enterprises have their own stories about data growth, and how they intend to handle it. Surely, this is what cloud computing in all its forms is all about. But simply processing it, transmitting it, and storing it is not enough. Data is not simply water or electricity. It&#8217;s a core asset of any company.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifipnews.org\/artificial-intelligence-3-0-third-wave-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">third wave of artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) upon us. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pega.com\/ai-survey\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> by Pega investigated what organizations do think about AI. The capabilities that seem attractive include speech recognition, replication of human interaction, problem solving, etc. The capabilities to actively developing within AI mentioned were game playing, running surveillance, automating manufacturing, etc.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/what-companies-think-of-artificial-intelligence-v11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/what-companies-think-of-artificial-intelligence-v11.png\" alt=\"what-companies-think-of-artificial-intelligence-v11\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25884\" \/><\/a><small>What companies think of AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pega.com\/ai-survey\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the urgency? We&#8217;ve been hearing about the IoT for several years now, with focuses on making sense (if possible) of the protocols involved, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cybersecurity-for-the-iot-and-ge-predix\/\">security of data<\/a>, and how to handle it in its many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/volume-velocity-and-variety-understanding-the-three-vs-of-big-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">varieties, velocities, and volumes<\/a>. Why should we now pay such close attention to AI?<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed&#8217;s point is that enterprises will be, figuratively speaking, just wading in a bunch of water, if they don&#8217;t apply AI technologies to their newly created IoT deployments. Separately, I learned that not only data, but the networks themselves, should be imbued with AI.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIntegrating AI into the IoT networks is becoming a prerequisite for success in today\u2019s IoT-based digital ecosystems. Businesses must move rapidly to identify how they\u2019ll drive value from combining AI and IoT\u2014or face playing catch-up in years to come. They need to combine IoT with rapidly-advancing AI technologies to simulate intelligent behavior and make well-informed decisions with little or no human intervention.\u201d \u2014Ahmed Banafa<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_areas_AI_can_be_applied_to\"><\/span>The areas AI can be applied to<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>So, Ahmed outlined six stages of processing IoT data, where artificial intelligence may help:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Data preparation<\/strong>: Defining pools of data to create data lakes and and clean them to identify <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_data\" target=\"_blank\">dark data<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Data discovery<\/strong>: Finding useful data in the defined pools of data.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Visualization of streaming data<\/strong>: On-the-fly dealing with streaming data by defining, discovering data, and visualizing it in smart ways to make it easy for the decision-making process to take place without delay.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Time series accuracy of data<\/strong>: Keeping a high level of confidence in data collected with high accuracy and integrity of data<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Predictive and advanced analytics<\/strong>: a very important step where decisions can be made based on data collected, discovered, and analyzed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real-time geospatial and location services<\/strong> (logistical data): Maintaining the flow of data smooth and under control.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-Data-Analytics.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-Data-Analytics.png\" alt=\"Catalyst Data Analytics\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25690\" \/><\/a><small>IoT can benefit from AI across most of its workflows (<a href=\"https:\/\/datafloq.com\/read\/why-ai-is-the-catalyst-of-iot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Associated_challenges\"><\/span>Associated challenges<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Still, everything comes at a price. Infusing IoT with artificial intelligence is associated with certain challenges. According to Ahmed, these include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Compatibility:<\/strong> IoT is a collection of many parts and systems fundamentally different in time and space.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Complexity:<\/strong> With multiple moving parts and non\u2013stop stream of data, IoT-based solutions are quite sophisticated.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Privacy\/security\/safety (PSS):<\/strong> This compination is always an issue with every new technology or concept, how far AI can help in these areas? The privacy and security of data as well as maintaining safe access to trusted sources is very important. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/tag\/blockchain\/\">Blockchain<\/a> can come into play here, but not in the absence of an upfront commitment to the three related issues within PSS.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\"><strong>Ethical and legal issues:<\/strong> It\u2019s a new world for many companies with no precedents, untested territory with new laws and cases emerging rapidly. (Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-internet-of-things-to-face-technology-business-and-social-challenges\/\">recent post<\/a> on the technology, business, and social challenges faced by IoT.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artificial stupidity:<\/strong> Back to the very simple concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garbage_in,_garbage_out\" target=\"_blank\">Garbage in, garbage out<\/a> (GIGO), AI still needs &#8216;training&#8217; to understand human reactions\/emotions so the decisions will make sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-Challenges.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-Challenges.jpg\" alt=\"Catalyst Challenges\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25692\" \/><\/a><small>The major challenges when adopting AI for IoT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/webinars\/ai-as-a-catalyst-for-iot\/\">Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One more thing to keep in mind is the amount of data flowing in. As the number of connected devices grows, the challenge to analyze it all is becoming more apparent. And here emerges the need to seek for &#8220;better, faster, stronger&#8221; AI means to sort and analyze as data is only valuable when you know how to make it work for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Implementation\"><\/span>Implementation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The real-life examples of intersecting IoT and artificial intelligence are already numerous. For instance, Honda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/honda-improves-the-safety-of-connected-cars-with-ibm-bluemix-watson\/\">adopted AI<\/a> to the to analyze and optimize Formula One (F1) racing engines. Data is gathered across 160+ sensors on a single F1 car over 270 data points\u2014such as engine pressure, temperature, and velocity. With these real-time data, both drivers and pit engineers can make adjustments during a race.<\/p>\n<p>Another example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/boeing-improves-operations-with-blockchain-and-the-internet-of-things\/\">Boeing<\/a> improving its assembly lines in addition to analyzing aircraft data collected during a flight. The manufacturer holds complete provenance details of each component part of an aircraft life cycle and optimizes the supply chain. Other examples are numerous.<\/p>\n<p>AI may be infused into IoT with deep learning tools, such as Caffe, Deeplearning4j, TensorFlow, Theano, or Torch. (Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/research-papers\/performance-of-deep-learning-frameworks-caffe-deeplearning4j-tensorflow-theano-and-torch\/\">our comparison<\/a> of the five.) For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/tag\/tensorflow\/\">TensorFlow<\/a>\u2014open-sourced by Google in 2015\u2014is used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/adopting-tensorflow-for-manufacturing-and-industrial-internet-of-things\/\">across industries<\/a> to improve manufacturing (the Industrial Internet of Things), healthcare, customer service, etc.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-AI-Disciplines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-AI-Disciplines.jpg\" alt=\"Catalyst AI Disciplines\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25689\" \/><\/a><small>Use cases for the world of AI (<a href=\"http:\/\/aaai.org\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, being the catalyst itself, the Internet of Things gives the opportunity to accumulate data, one of the most valuable assets we have today. Paired with another catalyst\u2014artificial intelligence\u2014one is able to efficiently scramble through those arrays of unstructured data to see the light of business insights and informed decisions at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Want details? Check out the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/webinars\/ai-as-a-catalyst-for-iot\/\">webinar recording<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_slides\"><\/span>Related slides<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/Eenr6HY1zleg8A\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_reading\"><\/span>Related reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/ibm-interconnect-the-power-of-iot-ai-and-machine-learning\/\">IBM: The Time for IoT, AI, and Machine Learning Is Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-internet-of-things-to-face-technology-business-and-social-challenges\/\">The Internet of Things to Face Technology, Business, and Social Challenges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/2016-in-review-neo-ai-and-neo-luddism\/\">2016\u20132017 Trends: Neo-AI and Neo-Luddism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/deep-learning-in-healthcare-finance-and-iiot-tensorflow-use-cases\/\">Deep Learning in Healthcare, Finance, and IIoT: TensorFlow Use Cases (Videos)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_the_speaker\"><\/span>About the speaker<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmedbanafa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ahmed-Banafa--150x150.png\" alt=\"IoT Security Blockcgain Webinar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-21711\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 600px;\"><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmedbanafa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed Banafa<\/a> has extensive experience in research, operations, and management, with focus on the  IoT area. He is a reviewer and a technical contributor for the publication of several technical books. Ahmed served as a faculty advisor at several well-known universities and colleges\u2014including the University of California, Berkeley, California State University-East Bay, San Jose State University, and the University of Massachusetts. He is the recipient of several awards, including Distinguished Tenured Staff Award of 2013, Instructor of the year for 2013, 2014, and Certificate of Honor for Instructor from the City and County of San Francisco. Ahmed was named as number one tech voice to follow by LinkedIn in 2016. <\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><center><small>This post was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/rstrukhoff\/\">Roger Strukhoff<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/sophie.turol\/\">Sophie Turol<\/a>.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scary rate of IoT data growth<\/p>\n<p>The Internet of Things (IoT) is covering the gamut of industries: healthcare, aviation, automotive industry, predictive maintenance, and many more.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-22568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Banafa<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IoT helps cities to predict accidents and crime as well as gives doctors real-time insight into information from pacemakers or biochips,&#8221; said [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[117,748,749],"class_list":["post-25681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-opinion","tag-iot","tag-machine-learning","tag-tensorflow"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artificial Intelligence Can Be a Catalyst Across Most Cycles of the IoT | Altoros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the challenges outlined, this blog post highlights the six stages of an IoT workflow where AI can help.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-catalyst-across-most-cycles-of-the-iot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artificial Intelligence Can Be a Catalyst Across Most Cycles of the IoT | Altoros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A scary rate of IoT data growth The Internet of Things (IoT) is covering the gamut of industries: healthcare, aviation, automotive industry, predictive maintenance, and many more. 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