Applying machine learning to IoT data

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are not novelty innovations. As early as 1959, Arthur Samuel defined the concept of machine learning as the ability of computers to learn to function in ways that they were not specifically programmed to do. Of course, the timeline from definition to implementation in everyday life can be a long one. Today, many factors have come together to make machine learning a reality, including large data sources that are great for learning, increased computational power for processing information in split seconds, and algorithms that have become more and more reliable. Machine learning can be applied in cases where the desired outcome is known (guided learning), or the data is not known beforehand (unguided learning), or the learning is the result of interaction between a model and the environment (reinforcement learning).