Autodesk, Nutonian partner on IoT analytics

Design software maker Autodesk is partnering with Nutonian, a machine intelligence company that can help it interpret Internet of Things (IoT) data, the companies announced Tuesday. Per the agreement, Nutonian's artificial intelligence modeling engine, called Eureqa, will be embedded in Autodesk's IoT cloud platform, Fusion Connect. Eureqa uses raw data to design the simplest possible predictive models that can be used for functions like predicting product failures or identifying product design flaws. Once it's powered by Eureqa, Fusion Connect will use dashboards and end-user alerts to explain what's happening. Autodesk promises that the Eureqa-powered platform could save a manufacturing business somewhere between 6,000 to 12,000 a year -- in addition to the saved expense of not hiring data scientists.