Android Things and Machine Learning

Android Things allows you to make amazing IoT devices with simple code, but one of the things that can make a device extraordinary is machine learning. While there are a few services available online that will allow you to upload data and will return results, being able to use machine learning locally and offline can be incredibly useful. Machine learning can help solve problems that conventional apps cannot. To provide context, let's go through a simple example where machine learning can be used with an IoT device to improve daily life. Here in Colorado, it's not uncommon to see news articles about wildlife coming out from the mountains and walking around a downtown: I've even had a friend post video of a bear outside of their home!