Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. A robot with no way to sense its position or environment is simply an automaton that performs movements blindly. That is changing due to a trend toward adding vision, torque, and other sensors to robots to make them more aware of their surroundings. This is the result of companies seeking greater productivity, throughput, safety, and quality that is creating a surge in automation, smart manufacturing, and robotization. Let’s take a look at some of the technologies and key companies in this space. Position sensors One of the most rudimentary sensors for robots tells ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Have you heard the good news? We’re excited to announce that you can have Google Cloud Monitoring Dashboards Automated with BindPlane! With a single click of a button in BindPlane, you can have a dashboard automatically created for your favorite supported sources directly in Google Cloud Monitoring. In this blog, we’ll walk you through the simple process of automating the creation of your dashboards. You can also watch our video walkthrough.  It’s very simple to get started with your Google Cloud Monitoring dashboards. The first step is to open up and log into BindPlane.  ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Jameson Haas. If you’re using the Elasticsearch query functionality, for mainly front-facing client search, there are 3 important metrics to monitor performance. Elasticsearch Query Load Your cluster can be putting up with any number of queries at a time. The volume of queries over time will align roughly to the load of requests laying a potential burden. Unexpected peaks and valley in a time series of query load could be signs of a problem or potential optimization opportunities. Elasticsearch Query Latency The average query latency, measured as the total count of queries and the total time ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Jameson Haas. The machine that runs your instance of Elasticsearch will indicate vital signs of performance. Eyes on the CPU, memory usage, and disk I/O will ensure optimal Elasticsearch node performance in production. Elasticsearch node | CPU Performance You may notice that your Elasticsearch instance can easily eat up CPU. CPU peaks are expected but underlying issues could be lurking. Whether it is clear performance issues or not, there will certainly be an opportunity for performance optimization. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) indicators will likely coincide with the spikes in CPU you see in your Elasticsearch ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Nolan Necoechea. March 18, 2020— Thirty years ago, the “holy grail” for companies was organizing all enterprise data in one location to achieve a “single source of truth.” Back then, IT held tight control over data and dripped out insights to the organization. Today, however, it’s a very different story: The advent of big data and the associated move to democratize data are driving enterprises to put data in the hands of more people. But does the workforce know how to use the data effectively? Is the organization data literate? Just like literacy in the general sense, ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: sherrilhanson. The advent of 4G and 5G internet of things (IoT)-based connectivity is spurring the online migration of smart-city applications, helping generate a more than sevenfold increase in smart-city artificial intelligence (AI) software revenue by 2025.The global smart-city AI software market is set to soar to $4.9 billion in 2025, up from $673.8 million in 2019, according to Omdia. Wireless data communications standards are enabling smart-city applications to move into the online realm, where they can capitalize on the latest AI innovations. The growing capabilities of AI are enabling data and insights collected through IoT ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Satyen Sangani. March 10, 2020— In a spirit of sharing and transparency, in this post we’ll share the policy that we have adopted at Alation in approaching work during this Coronavirus outbreak. We announced this policy to our employees on Friday, March 6, 2020. It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered.”― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Mark Beccue. Fake news is nothing new. Various forms of propaganda and “yellow journalism” have been propagated for centuries, but social media has essentially placed fake news on steroids. 2016 was a watermark year in fake news. For example, according to an article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives in 2017, some stunning statistics came to light: the study showed that 62% of U.S. adults get news on social media and that 41.8% of all visits to fake news sites in the U.S. came through social media links. (Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives) Via ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. With embattled countries facing a health crisis of global proportions, thousands of robots and drones are being deployed in hospitals, on the streets, and in airports around the globe to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 illness. Healthcare professionals and businesses are finding innovative ways to use robots and drones to help patients and those in quarantine. Let’s explore some of the ways robots are being used to combat the coronavirus. (Source: XAG) Examining and Interacting with Patients Health professionals are using telehealth technology to perform basic diagnostic ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. Honeywell International, perhaps best known as a manufacturer of thermostats, plans to offer cloud-based access to what it claims is the world’s most powerful quantum computer, according to a benchmarking measure known as quantum volume. In early March, the company announced that access would be offered sometime within Q2 2020. As stated in a research paper published March 3, 2020 in the journal Nature, Honeywell has developed a quantum computer that uses quantum charge coupled device (QCCD) architecture. This architecture uses electromagnetic fields to trap ions so they can be manipulated with laser ... Read More