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The Next Big Think Podcast: Why Industry 4.0 is About Industrial Automation

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Our guest in today's podcast is Daniel Raj David.  He figured out as a student engineer in university that asset monitoring and maintenance, especially in legacy-led industries like oil and gas, was complicated. So, he and a bunch of friends devised a plan to make it simpler. Daniel Raj David is the co-founder and CEO of startup Detect Technologies , a company that is part of TCS' COIN™ Accelerator program. Detect Technologies focuses on industrial AI and SaaS, and is reimagining global industrial productivity. In this episode of The Next Big Think!, we delve into Industry 4.0. Daniel demystifies legacy transformation in industries like oil and energy, construction, and manufacturing. The conversation also explores how technology’s primary role is to digitize, de-risk, and automate business. Listen in to know more about how AI, IoT, drones, and ML are freeing up human capital to think, ideate, and design, and why ‘the next big think’ is industrial automation. ****************

Does Uncle Sam Really Want You?

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Uncle Sam doesn’t really want a gangly 18-year-old soldier to stand guard outside the gate of a military base, rather he wants a wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system that provides surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering using specialized software and camera systems to detect and track hundreds of people and vehicles all at the same time over a city-sized area.   Uncle Sam doesn’t really want a blurry eyed, half asleep and distracted human pilot flying in circles trying to find camouflaged bad guys on the ground, rather he wants a multispectral system, that can see things invisible to human eyes, consisting of four high-definition cameras covering five spectral bands; a three-color diode pump laser designator and rangefinder; laser spot search and track capability; automated sensor and laser bore sight alignment; three-mode target tracker., and MTS sensors that offers multiple fields of view, electronic zoom, and multimode video tracking.

Digital Expert Series: Innovations in Sound, Sensor and AI Technologies

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In this episode of the Digital Expert Series, I interview Sebastien Christian, a brilliant innovator, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of  Otosense , a company that was acquired by Analog Devices a few weeks ago.  Otosense has a team of physicists and engineers, that work together to develop the most advanced sound recognition software engines.  They are also an infrastructure software company offering a deep-learning based sound recognition software platform that enables enterprise customers to build value through sound intelligence. I was fascinated by our discussion and hope you will be to. ************************************************************************ Kevin Benedict SVP Solutions Strategy, Regalix Inc. Website Regalix Inc. View my profile on LinkedIn Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the Linkedin Group Digital Intelligence Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies ***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Jonathan Kaplan, CTO and Co-Founder of PowWow Mobile

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In this in-depth interview, I get the chance to ask PowWow Mobile’s CTO Jonathan Kaplan why 2012 was a good year to start an enterprise mobility focused platform company, and what problems they recognized still needed resolved in the market.  We also dig deep into how AI and IoT fit in with enterprise mobility.  Enjoy! ************************************************************************ Kevin Benedict Senior Vice President Solutions Strategy, Regalix Inc. Website Regalix Inc. View my profile on LinkedIn Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Subscribe to Kevin's YouTube Channel Join the Linkedin Group Digital Intelligence Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies ***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Silicon Valley Series: Digital Precision with IIoT, Analytics, AI and Digital Transformation

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In this  Silicon Valley Series  I have the privilege of interviewing very smart and experienced Silicon Valley veterans on a variety of important business trends, technologies and strategies.  I hope you find this series of short interviews interesting. In this episode, experienced Silicon Valley CEO Tom Thimot and I discuss the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation, and how it all plays a role in operating a more precise business that leads to competitive advantages.

Digital Expert Series: Digging into IIoT with AMI Global's Expert Terrence O'Leary

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In this episode of the Digital Expert Series , we dig deep into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with AMI Global's expert Terrence O'Leary.  We learn about all the various components in the IIoT ecosystem including sensors, analytics, security, AI, machine learning, and the competitive advantages available and the strategies employed. Read more from the Center for Digital Intelligence™ here:

Artificial Intelligence, Combined Actions and Digital Strategies

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Fingerspitzengefühl:  A German word used to describe the ability to maintain attention to detail in an ever-changing operational and tactical environment by maintaining real-time situational awareness. The term is synonymous with the English expression of "keeping one's finger on the pulse".  The problem with fingerspitzengefühl traditionally, in addition to pronouncing it, has been it is hard for an individual to scale up. Today that is changing.  In a world of sensors, AI and mobile devices, having real-time situational awareness is far easier than ever before.  In fact, today the challenge is not how to do it, but what to do with the massive volume of data that can be provided.

The Center for Digital Intelligence Interview: IoT Platforms with Hitachi's Rob Tiffany

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I had the honor of interviewing and disrupting the vacation of Hitachi's CTO for Industrial IoT, Rob Tiffany today.  In this interview we talk all about IoT platforms, big data analytics, architectures, digital twins and solution stacks for industrial IoT.  I learned a lot and hope you will too. Read more from Kevin Benedict here: Digital Transformation and the New Rules for Start-Ups Digital Transformation and Leadership Development Digital Transformation and Competitive Decision-Making Combinatorial Nature of Digital Technologies and Legos D igital Transformation from 40,000 feet Winning in Chaos - Digital Leaders 13 Recommended Actions for Digital Transformation in Retail Mistakes in Retail Digital Transformation Winning Strategies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation - Mindset Differences Analyzing Retail Through Digital Lenses Digital Thinking and Beyond! Measuring the Pace of Change in the Fourth Industrial Revolution How Digital Thi

Sensors and AI in the Kingdom of Robots

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Fingerspitzengefühl : Is a German word used to describe an ability to maintain attention to detail in an ever-changing operational and tactical environment by maintaining real-time situational awareness.  The term is synonymous with the English expression of "keeping one's finger on the pulse".  The problem with traditional fingerspitzengef ü hl, in addition to pronouncing it - is it is hard to scale.  Today, however, in a world of sensors, GPS and mobile devices, having real-time situational awareness is far easier than ever before.  In fact, today the challenge is not how to do it (answer: sensors), but what to do with all the information. There are many dimensions of data that are available for work outside the four walls, which is mobile, remote and dynamic.  We all know about 3 dimensional (longitude, latitude and altitude), but there are many more.  We contrive: Time Start and stop tasks times Travel times Traffic conditions Available workforces and assoc

Virtual Reality Moves to Real with Sensors and Digital Transformation

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I was on a high-rise construction site 34-floors above the city.  I was talking to the construction crew when a fight broke out.  There was an explosion and the floor collapsed.  I removed the virtual reality (VR) goggles and laughed.  It was so real.  The VR solutions provided an incredible experience, almost like being there.  As good as my experience was, it was not reality.  It was a controlled pre-programmed experience - a notional idea.  Today, however, VR, sensors and sensory feedback technologies enable a notional idea to become reality – a Real-Reality. IoT sensors extend our physical senses beyond our physical reach.  Haptic feedback systems enable us to physically feel distant objects and experience events, digital odors can be collected, profiled, transmitted and recreated locally on odor printers, 3D infrared scanners can capture and scale physical shapes and environments and transmit them anywhere to be used by 3D printers or in digital scenes.  We can visualize, sen

Mobile Insights - Feeling the Force (Force Touch) with iOS 9

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My friend and Cognizant's mobile and digital technical guru, Peter Rogers, has been playing again. In this "must read" article he shares how iOS9 handles touch and sensing.   Enjoy! ********** Every time there is a new games console release (especially when Nintendo is involved) rumours are always floating abound of a technological support for textures that you can actually feel on your touch screen. Basically the ability to sense different materials through the screen. It is a lovely idea and the closest we have come yet is probably haptics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_technology ) and electric shock feedback ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRQAijNKSEs ). Well, we are not there quite yet but Apple certainly came close with the iPhone 6S announcement of 3D Touch ( http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/3d-touch/ ). After revolutionising the touch screen world with multi-touch, it then made perfect sense to add a force element to the touches in order to offer dif

Monitoring an Ear of Corn with an IoT Sensor?

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Once upon a time, farmers would walk through a field or ride a horse around it to determine the amount of fertilizer and water their crops required.  I have done this myself.  Today agricultural drones with sensors and analysis software can fly over large fields and analyze the crops and their needs precisely in seconds.  If we wanted to get even more ambitious, we could place an IoT (Internet of Things) sensor next to every stalk of corn to monitor and optimize its growth.  Although these steps are all feasible today, some are not yet economically advantageous.  That might, however, soon change.  In the past, we treated crops in aggregate. Today, we can customize how we treat each section of a crop due to the benefits of sensors. Globally, we will need to feed 8 billion people by 2030 and 9 billion by 2050.  The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that, under current production and consumption trends, global food production must increase 60 percent by 2050 in order