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What Role Does Artificial Intelligence Play in IoT? | Dr. Roger Brooks, Chief Scientist at Guavus | #IoTMakers E035

IoT For All Podcast · 17 Jul 2019 · 47m

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Dr. Roger Brooks, Chief Scientist at Guavus, explains how Guavus uses its Reflex analytics platform to help communication service providers and industrial IoT operators monitor device health, predict failures, and optimize network performance. He distinguishes between machine learning, which requires large datasets to build models, and artificial intelligence, which can reason from fewer examples, and clarifies the term 'machine intelligence' as AI applied to machine-generated data. Brooks emphasizes that successful IoT ROI depends not just on the analytics but on the solution framework that delivers actionable insights to technicians in real-time to reduce decision latency.

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