At CES this year, an impressive number of enterprise providers presented solutions for homes primarily focused on home offices, robotics, and automobiles (emphasizing autonomous electric cars). Companies like Caterpillar, BlackBerry, Hive, IBM, Philips, Google, Amazon, Twitter, Wing Venture Capital, and others are showcasing solutions that are being asked to bridge capabilities between homes and large businesses to address the new Pandemic regularly better. Let’s talk about some of the more exciting opportunities that came out of that show this year that could allow developers in both the consumer and enterprise segments to find options that bridge the components.
We are still years away from a General Purpose AI. Still, as raining and inference have improved, adopting AIs developed for things like Autonomous cars, they find their way into business solutions. Take auto mous driving-focused AI. This form f AI is becoming very powerful as those developing its attempt to move from enhanced cruise control (level 2 autonomous driving) to vehicles with no driving interfaces (level 5 autonomous driving). This same echnology is being adapted to Robots, autonomous equipment (like mining trucks and tractors used in agriculture), and enhanced security solutions (Intel’s RealSense Cameras with Lidar).
The spread of this impressive AI technology is having a material impact on the resulting offerings making them able to operate with lower staff and, while doing so, create a better solution that is cheaper and faster than the one it will replace. Companies like BlackBerry showed how their security solutions could better protect the exposed employees, executives, and their ever more intelligent cars and robots. These opportunities p entially expand its total available market and create economic and programming synergies that will allow them to reduce its programming costs through reuse while benefiting from this growing blended market, resulting in more substantial profits.
In addition to making remote users and autonomous cars safer, this security technology could protect the growing robotics market and the coming raft of automated restaurants and stores that are likely to emerge as retailers move to maintain profits during the Pandemic. And this security expansion won’t stop there.
Expect it to embrace the rapidly growing IoT market and emerging classes of products like flying cars and drones, which, if hacked, could represent a mortal risk for those of us on the ground. Over time, this should move to connected appliances and Smart TVs, particularly those with built-in cameras. No one wants to go home to an out-of-control Washing Machine or their TV suddenly deciding that only Teletubbies are worth watching.
