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

- Show: [IoT For All Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast)
- Published: 2019-07-17
- Length: 47m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti
- Listen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iot-for-all/episodes/What-Role-Does-Artificial-Intelligence-Play-in-IoT---Dr--Roger-Brooks--Chief-Scientist-at-Guavus--IoTMakers-E035-e28bp6b

## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=0) Introduction and Guavus Overview
- [6:10](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=370) IoT Use Cases: Monitoring, Profiling, and Failure Prediction
- [14:52](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=892) Hardware Agnostic Data Collection via Network Traffic
- [20:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=1238) The Data Challenge: From Intellectual Understanding to Operational Execution
- [25:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=1503) Defining Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
- [32:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=1961) Machine Intelligence vs. AI and Real-World Network Optimization
- [38:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-07-17-what-role-does-artificial-intelligence-play-in-iot-dr-roger-brooks-chief-scienti#t=2289) ROI, Solution Frameworks, and the Future of Automated Operations

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Pricing, margins & unit economics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pricing-and-unit-economics)
- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- Guavus (company)
- Reflex (product)

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