Category: Internet of Things

Water utilities worldwide are facing challenges in managing infrastructure, reducing water waste, and making sure of reliable service delivery. The traditional approaches of manual monitoring and reactive maintenance are no longer sufficient due to increasing water demand, need for uninterrupted service, regulatory requirements, and customer satisfaction. In this post, we explore how Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI […]

Manufacturing companies face significant challenges with unplanned equipment downtime, which leads to lost revenue and production delays. Maintenance teams often struggle to detect early warning signs of equipment failure due to resource constraints and a lack of advanced analytics expertise. To address these challenges, we are excited to announce the general availability of native anomaly […]

With over 100 clubs globally, premium fitness company Equinox requires scalable, repeatable infrastructure that can support its integrated digital and physical experiences. Its connected experiences, which include competitive cycling classes, are a key offering that motivates its members to track and meet their fitness goals in a mobile app. However, delivering fitness insights in near […]

Opportunities for telecoms with small language models (SLMs) explored how telecom operators can use SLMs deployed on Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to enable autonomous environments and handle routine information requests. Subsequently, in Distributed inference with collaborative AI agents for telco-powered smart-X, we further explored the spectrum of distributed computing locations […]

The healthcare industry faces mounting challenges—workforce shortages, clinical burnout, and a rise in chronic conditions. Additionally, monitoring patients post-discharge (ensuring treatment plan adherence and preventing readmissions) are resource-intensive tasks that drive up costs and can be prone to error. New remote patient monitoring technologies can play a crucial role in addressing these challenges. With 90 […]

This post describes how to gather, collect, and distribute data from your connected vehicles and connected assets, such as manufacturing machinery or utility meters, into the Salesforce Industry Cloud solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. With AWS Internet of Things (AWS IoT), there’s AWS IoT FleetWise, a managed service to efficiently collect vehicle data […]

The retail industry faces an increasingly complex returns challenge that impacts both operational efficiency and bottom-line profitability. With online return rates averaging 15.2 percent – triple the rate of in-store purchases – and returns accounting for $743 billion in lost sales in the US alone last year, retailers need innovative solutions to address this growing […]

Hannover Messe 2025 hosted 127,000 visitors, 4,000 exhibitors, 1,600 speakers, and over 1 million online visitors over the week of March 31st to April 4th in Hannover, Germany. The show facilitated great discussions between industry-leading companies and global manufacturers discussing how generative artificial intelligence (AI), automation, digitalization, and electrification are powering industrial innovation. Once again, […]

Physical retailing – driving 80 percent of all US sales – is undergoing a “Renaissance”; a modernization revolution focused on transforming both shopper experience and operations. To achieve this, stores are re-investing heavily in technology, from point-of-sale systems and inventory management to IoT devices and computer vision solutions. Yet these investments often create what IDC […]

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are evolving into distributed inference pipelines, where models run across multiple tiers, from device edge to AWS, to optimize latency, bandwidth, and privacy. Instead of sending all raw data to AWS, collaborative AI inference can occur at the device, far edge, near edge (often a 5G Multi-access Edge Computing site […]