I continue to think that Robots are the next big technology trend. The COVID-19 event seems to make this even more likely because of the need to keep people apart from each other to prevent the virus’ spread.
This week Qualcomm put on a presentation on this topic with their focus being on 5G connecting these robots to centralized AI resources. This presentation was designed to showcase their Robotics RB5 platform but is also showcased a different way to create robots so that they are more reliable, smarter, and less expensive to build. Read More
Tag Archives: IoT
Google’s quiet experiments may lead to smart tattoos, holographic glasses
A simple pair of sunglasses that projects holographic icons. A smartwatch that has a digital screen but analog hands. A temporary tattoo that, when applied to your skin, transforms your body into a living touchpad. A virtual reality controller that lets you pick up objects in digital worlds and feel their weight as you swing them around. Those are some of the projects Google has quietly been developing or funding, according to white papers and demo videos, in an effort to create the next generation of wearable technology devices. Read More
THE REVERSE CASCADE: Enforcing Security On The Global IoT Supply Chain
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the increasing con-vergence of the physical and digital worlds. Hundreds of “things” are being connected to the Internet and each other, with more than fifty billion devices ex-pected to be connected by 2030.1 These devices vary from Internet-connected power-generation equipment to wearable health trackers and smart home appliances, and generally offer some combination of new functionality, greater conve-nience, or cost savings to users.
… The United States has limited means to enforce its standards in foreign jurisdictions, like China, where the bulk of IoT products are manufactured.
… This paper proposes to apply regulatory pressure to do-mestic technology distributors to drive adoption of security standards throughout their supply chains. Read More
IoT Anomaly detection – algorithms, techniques and open source implementation
Anomaly detection for IoT is one of the archetypal applications for IoT.
Anomaly detection techniques are also used outside of IoT.
In my teaching at the #universityofoxford – we use anomaly detection as a use case because it brings together many of the intricacies for IoT and also demonstrates the use of multiple machine learning and deeplearning algorithms.
Long term, I am exploring the idea of creating an open source anomaly detector for IoT – both for my students and in general. Read More
Best Practices for IoT Security:What Does That Even Mean?
Best practices for Internet of Things (IoT) security have recently attracted considerable attention world wide from industry and governments, while academic research has highlighted the failure of many IoT product manufacturers to follow accepted practices. We explore not the failure to follow best practices, but rather a surprising lack of understanding,and void in the literature, on what (generically) “best practice” means, independent of meaningfully identifying specific individual practices. Confusion is evident from guidelines that conflate desired outcomes with security practices to achieve those outcomes. How do best practices, good practices, and standard practices differ? Or guidelines, recommendations, and requirements? Can something be a best practice if it is not actionable? We consider categories of best practices, and how they apply over the lifecycle of IoT devices. For concreteness in our discussion, we analyze and categorize a set of 1014 IoT security best practices, recommendations, and guidelines from industrial,government, and academic sources. As one example result, we find that about 70% of these practices or guidelines relate to early IoT device lifecycle stages, highlighting the critical position of manufacturers in addressing the security issues in question.We hope that our work provides a basis for the community to build on in order to better understand best practices, identify and reach consensus on specific practices, and then find ways to motivate relevant stakeholders to follow them.Index Terms—Internet of Things, IoT, Best Practices. Read More
#cyber, #iotAI at the Edge Still Mostly Consumer, not Enterprise, Market
Data-driven experiences are rich, immersive and immediate. But they’re also delay-intolerant data hogs.
Think pizza delivery by drone, video cameras that can record traffic accidents at an intersection, freight trucks that can identify a potential system failure.
These kinds of fast-acting activities need lots of data — quickly. So they can’t sustain latency as data travels to and from the cloud. That to-and-fro takes too long. Instead, many of these data-intensive processes must remain localized and processed at the edge and on or near a hardware device. Read More
ARM’s new edge AI chips promise IoT devices that won’t need the cloud
Edge AI is one of the biggest trends in chip technology. These are chips that run AI processing on the edge — or, in other words, on a device without a cloud connection. Apple recently bought a company that specializes in it, Google’s Coral initiative is meant to make it easier, and chipmaker ARM has already been working on it for years. Now, ARM is expanding its efforts in the field with two new chip designs: the Arm Cortex-M55 and the Ethos-U55, a neural processing unit meant to pair with the Cortex-M55 for more demanding use cases. Read More
AI on the Edge — An AI Nerd Series |#01-Pilot
In the beginning, there was one big computer. Soon we started connecting to it using terminals ( the UNIX era). Next, we had personal computers, and this was the first time regular people owned hardware that did the work. Today we’re firmly in the Cloud Computing era, which means today’s world is centralized with a central cloud doing all the required processing. The truly amazing things about the cloud are a large percentage of all companies in the world now rely on the infrastructure, hosting, machine learning, and compute power of a very select few cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. But things got little stirred up when Peter Levine of Andressen Horowitz presented his interesting working theory at a16z; His presentation was titled “The End of Cloud Computing”(!!!) Read More
What Is The Artificial Intelligence Of Things? When AI Meets IoT
Individually, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are powerful technologies. When you combine AI and IoT, you get AIoT—the artificial intelligence of things. You can think of internet of things devices as the digital nervous system while artificial intelligence is the brain of a system. Read More
First-ever humanoid robot powered by cloud artificial intelligence
Who needs to use that delicate tiny sewing staple, when there’s now a robot that can thread a needle for you? CloudMinds XR-1, 5G Humanoid Robots with vision-controlled grasping tech and intricate manual tasks, interacted with guests at the Sprint exhibit at the Mobile World Congress 2019 Los Angeles, (MWC19) in Los Angeles.
The XR-1 robot is powered by cloud artificial intelligence (AI)–one of the first of its kind–Sprint True Mobile 5G, and proprietary vision-controlled grasping tech, which means it not only can thread a needle, but can serve drinks and can be programmed to do other tasks, including manufacturing. Read More
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