If AI is to be used in industrial applications, parallel computing with the shortest response times in real time is often required. This places new demands on embedded computer technology, such as computer-on-modules (COMs).
The artificial intelligence (AI) market is currently experiencing an incredible boom. According to ResearchAndMarkets, the global AI market is expected to grow by 36.6 per cent annually to US$ 190.61 billion by 2025. AI is already all around us today. In our personal lives we experience AI, for example, in product, film and music recommendations as well as service hotlines, where AI bots answer general customer questions completely autonomously.
AI is also behind smartphone features, such as face and gesture recognition and personal (voice) assistants. However, according to Deloitte’s study “Exponential Technologies in Manufacturing,” one of the most important drivers for new AI is also the production sector. Next to less-critical use cases—such as AI for predictive maintenance or demand forecasting—industrial AI can also be used in areas of application that require real-time capabilities. These include, for example:
Industrial image processing, where AI helps capture many different states and/or product features, and evaluates these via intelligent pattern recognition to enable more reliable quality control. Forbes states that AI can increase error detection rate by up to 90 per cent.
Cooperative and collaborative robots that share the same work space with humans can react flexibly to unforeseen events, making decisions based on situational awareness.
Similar requirements apply to autonomous industrial vehicles.
AI applications in the semiconductor industry showed, for example, 30 per cent reduction in reject rates when using Big Data to analyse rootcause data, which must be collected with high precision and in real time.
Lastly, there is the large area of real-time production planning and control of Industry 4.0 factories. Here, AI helps optimise the processes at the edge, thereby increasing utilisation of machines and, ultimately, productivity of the entire factory.
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TRULY INNOVATIVE ELECTRONICS -INNOVATION UPDATES
Amongst numerous press releases of new products received by us, these are the ones we found worthy of the title Truly Innovative Electronics
Elastomer enhancing smart wearable performance
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Nanotechnology based noninvasive cancer diagnostics
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Space communication with silent amplifiers
In the new communication system from researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, a weak optical signal (red) from the spacecraft's transmitter can be amplified noisefree when it encounters two so-called pump waves (blue and green) of different frequencies in a receiver on Earth.
Advancements in TOPCon solar cells
The structure and performance of tandem devices with highly passivated TOPCon bottom cells
Quantum leap in magnetism refines superconductors
Rice University physicists have uncovered key magnetic and electronic properties in kagome magnets, structures resembling basket-weaving patterns.
Sensor targets food antioxidants
A research team from Hunan City University and Xiangtan University in China has developed a sensor for detecting TBHQ, a food antioxidant used in oils and fats, addressing health concerns at high concentrations.
Data sensing with repurposed RFID tags
UC San Diego researchers have advanced passive data collection with a breakthrough in battery-free sensing.
Seal-inspired sensors to safeguard offshore wind farms
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Artificial nose identifies scents accurately
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