Systems of systems: The next big step for edge AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Thanks to AI advancements and applications, edge computing is already seeing widespread interest from industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare and retail. Leveraging the growing power and ubiquity of CPUs and neural processing units, edge AI can process growing haystacks of data right where they're being created, finding their needles quickly for local or remote processing. Edge AI is an enabler for early networked autonomous cars -- instantly recognizing and sharing details on accidents, weather conditions, and traffic from vehicle sensors and smart infrastructures in real-time. Similarly, edge AI has empowered wearables to actively monitor seniors for chronic health conditions, alerting remote caregivers within seconds of detecting abnormalities in their biometric data. It's clear that edge AI has the ability to open up a whole new world of insights and opportunities across multiple industries, but connecting the distributed data processors to usefully aggregate their discoveries is a higher-level task.