The Hardware Entrepreneur · 18 Jul 2018 · 15m
Balint Horvath shares insights from the IoT Tech Expo Europe, highlighting the rise of AI and IoT investments and the need for realistic expectations, citing companies like Aiir Innovations, Asgard, and Circuit. He discusses specific applications including predictive maintenance, livestock monitoring, and global connectivity solutions like Keep Go and Hyper. The episode features an interview with Cassandra Lore of Aiir Innovations, detailing their computer vision system for automated airplane engine inspections. Horvath emphasizes the strategic approach of assisting inspectors before moving to full automation, supported by partnerships with KLM and cloud computing resources.
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Engineering & simulationAIIR Innovations
The company used computer vision and image recognition to automate visual inspections of airplane engines, assisting inspectors by identifying damages in jet engine images.
“We are building a tool that assists in the 1st place, an inspector in their work. I also analyzing the image and trying to find damages in the inside of a jet edge. It returns like a result that states, oh, I think I see a damage here.”
Cassandra Lore · Hear it at 10:49
Engineering & simulationKLM
The startup partnered with KLM to access airline data for training their machine learning algorithms, using cloud computing and local hardware to refine the AI models.
“She said, they're working together with the partner, KLM, the airline, which gives access to their data, use for training, their machine learning algorithm. They use cloud computing services to train them, but they have now also their computers, including a laptop, like in a bag that they carry.”
Speaker 1 · Hear it at 12:53
Engineering & simulationHyperspectral camera
A company used hyperspectral cameras to identify plastic types for recycling without burning the material, replacing a polluting smoke-based method with a non-destructive visual inspection technique.
“She brought up an example that they work with the company, which is cameras to determine the kind of plastic to recycle, until now they smoke the plastic, so they burnt it, define that what kind of plastic it is. Now with a hyperspector camera, they can do it without polluting the environment.”
Speaker 1 · Hear it at 12:53
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