How Artificial Intelligence Will Make the IoT

The data volumes expected from the Internet of Things (IoT) are certain to be large – too large, in fact, for even an army of trained analysts to turn into useful information in a reasonable amount of time. This is why every solution aimed at the IoT relies heavily on automation, simply to manage the flow of information between devices and to centralized storage and analytics systems. But even this is not likely to be enough. To fully leverage the IoT, it's becoming obvious that the enterprise will have to utilize new forms of artificial intelligence and machine learning to basically allow the environment to makes its own use of available data and tell human operators what needs to be done. Already, this is emerging on leading IoT platforms. Software developer C3 recently updated its IoT platform by pushing artificial intelligence to the edge where it can function on an application level for an improved user experience.