How to Make industrial AI Work in Extreme Conditions?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied to a lot of industrial environments to save costs and to improve processes. This industrial Artificial Intelligence does not only include the smart algorithms and Big Data concepts that reside in the virtual space inside the computer systems, but it consists of the physical devices themselves too. Data has to be captured with sensors. Commands have to be sent to actuators and control systems. This whole chain and flow of information, wireless or via cables, goes through places with extreme conditions.