How AI Will Transform IoT Architecture

Futurists say artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) will transform business and society more profoundly than the industrial and digital revolutions combined, and we’re now starting to see how that world might shape up. Yet even as the future unfolds before our eyes, what few are talking about is how AI-driven IoT actually gets implemented in an effective and profitable way. One critical factor – if not the critical factor – is where the intelligence actually resides and how that influences IoT architecture. Many organizations believe the rightful place for AI is in the cloud, since that’s where they are moving their data and IT computing power. But a key requirement for functional IoT is interoperable connections between the various sensors at the edge to a gateway and bi-directionally from the cloud - which then poses the problem of latency.