Konferenzprogramm*
Dienstag, 17. November 2020
Some of these properties, like the presence of a hardware-based root of trust or compartmentalization, require certain silicon features. Others, like defense in depth, require a certain software architecture, as well as the presence of other properties, like a hardware-based root of trust. Finally, other properties, such as renewable security, certificate-based authentication, and failure reporting, require not only silicon features and certain software architecture choices within the operating system, but also deep integration with cloud services. Piecing these critical pieces of infrastructure together is difficult and prone to errors.
Ensuring that a device meets these properties could therefore increase its cost. This led us to believe that the seven properties also introduced an opportunity for security-minded companies to implement these properties as a platform, freeing device manufacturers to focus on product features, rather than security. Azure Sphere is Microsoft’s entry into the market with a seven-properties-compliant, end-to-end, product offering.
Jürgen joined Microsoft in 1990. In Windows Program Management he helped shape Windows releases over almost a quarter-century. Moving into an Architect role in Microsoft Services, he began connecting "things" to the cloud, planning and delivering industrial IoT Solutions. In the One Microsoft IoT & MR team he is now enabling partners to build innovative IoT solutions secured from the chip to the cloud.
Klaus-Dieter Walter ist CEO der SSV Software Systems GmbH in Hannover und durch Vorträge auf internationalen Veranstaltungen sowie Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften bekannt und hat vier Fachbücher zum Themenbereich Embedded Systeme veröffentlicht. 2007 hat er den M2M Alliance e.V. mitgegründet und war viele Jahre im Vorstand. Außerdem ist er Vorstandsmitglied des Industrieforums VHPready, um einen Kommunikationsstandard für Virtuelle Kraftwerke zu schaffen und ist seit 2012 in der Expertengruppe Internet der Dinge innerhalb der Fokusgruppe Intelligente Vernetzung des Digital Gipfel der Bundesregierung.
Lukasz Grzymkowski is working with Arrow as Technical Lead for Embedded Software. He started his career as a software engineer for Intel in the Data Center Group and joined Arrow in early 2018. In parallel, he is currently working on his Ph.D. degree focused on artificial intelligence and control theory.
As AI methods have matured in datacenters and on industrial PCs, we see people eager to apply them on embedded devices close to the application. The step from datacenters into constrained devices brings both challenges and opportunities.
In this talk we will consider the different mindsets needed for both environments and highlight challenges, tools and solutions to ease the transition.
Nicolas Lehment is a systems architect at NXP’s Industrial Competency Center, where he advises on strategic topics such as ML/AI, connectivity and safety for industrial automation. Before joining NXP, he designed cutting-edge computer vision and robotics systems for ABB and Smartray. He’s collaborated on research papers for topics ranging from ML-driven video classification over human pose tracking to collaborative robotics. This academic work earned him a doctoral degree at the Technical University of Munich.
Oliver Niggemann studierte Informatik an der Universität Paderborn, wo er 2001 mit dem Thema „Visual Data Mining of Graph-Based Data“ promoviert wurde. Anschließend arbeitete er als Software-Entwickler bei der Firma Acterna in der Telekommunikationsbranche. Bis 2008 war als Lead-Produktmanager bei der Firma dSPACE tätig. Niggemann war aktiv im AUTOSAR-Gremium und bis 2008 Beiratsvorsitzende des s-labs der Universitat Paderborn. 2008 folgte Niggemann dem Ruf auf die neu eingerichtete Professur für Technische Informatik an der Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, wo er das Labor für „Artificial Intelligence in Automation“ leitete. Von 2008 bis 2019 war er Vorstandsmitglied des Instituts für industrielle Informationstechnologien (inIT). Bis 2019 war Niggemann auch stellv. Leiter des Fraunhofer IOSB-INA Institutsteil für industrielle Automation. Am 1. April 2019 übernahm Niggemann die Universitätsprofessur „Informatik im Maschinenbau“ an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg. Dort forscht er am Institut für Automatisierungstechnik im Bereich der Künstlichen Intelligenz und des Maschinellen Lernens für Cyber-Physische Systeme.
Many companies struggle with the decision of how to engage artificial intelligence for their products. During the speech, Robin Roitsch will introduce a systematic approach to check specific AI-properties and their current status within a project. The method provides an overview of particular properties that need to be addressed during the design and development of AI applications. It also shows how to engage these topics in case it was not under consideration yet. Furthermore, it assists in evaluating these solutions towards stakeholders requirements.
Research and development in the area of artificial intelligence started in the 1950s. However, the actual integration and deployment for small- and medium-sized embedded systems companies is still a widely unestablished process. The main reasons for this are: The lack of an understanding of AI technology and AI-specific properties itself leads to the lack of knowledge about potential application areas and the uncertainty of whether a migration towards an AI-based solution will benefit.
The main problem in applying AI in the industry is a systematic approach to mapping the concerns of stakeholders to potential AI-enabled solutions, which, from the architectural point of view, also discusses consequences in terms of benefits and drawbacks.
Robin's work aims to support decision-makers who want to adopt AI's potential for their projects. He created an approach to enhance standard requirements engineering techniques such as the Adequacy Check with AI-specific property checks. This check allows us to grow awareness and confidence about specific processes and steps that need to be considered throughout an AI-based development. Furthermore, it assists in identifying shortcomings of the current status of your architecture and provide hints on how to engage it. The approach does not necessarily require an input but can straightforwardly be used as a support tool for the requirements elicitation process when it comes to AI-specific needs.
Working as Business Development Manager in the domain of embedded and industrial systems, Robin's daily challenge is to update customers with the latest upcoming technologies and trends - especially in reasonably new technology like artificial intelligence, which is going beyond traditional HW/SW approaches. As an NVIDIA employee and former Technical Feld Application Engineer at Arrow Electronics, Robin engages many different customers with a wide range of various projects and use cases. When it comes to AI, his primary task is to identify the current status of the customers' project and to provide support in case of fundamental questions, deep-dive technical assistance, and general shortcomings throughout the complete project lifetime.
Taking AI enabled Video Analysis to the Edge in order to support real-time data delivery and decision making. It requires extremely powerful microprocessor units (MPUs) combined with graphics processing units (GPUs) – which can accelerate compute-intensive applications by spreading computing workloads over multiple cores. Hear more about powerful Intel microprocessors which are dramatically boosted by the addition of NVIDIA GPUs; and deep learning platforms based on NVIDIA’s Jetson family provide a quick start for autonomous machine development.
Marco Krause is Global Account Director at Adlink. He is responsible for global TIER1,2 accounts and heading the CEE team. Marco has 15+ years of experience in the Embedded, IPC, Distribution & IT environment. His special interest is in AI/KI related topics and applications (i.e. robotics, AGV´s, autonomous cars).
• Connectivity – getting products to work seamlessly in a field of multiple wireless technologies
• Security - compliance with emerging privacy and security requirements
• Human-machine interface - aesthetically attractive industrial design
• The user experience - making technology plug-and-play, while delivering behind-the-scenes software updates
• Secure, scalable device management with easy on-boarding supporting major platforms or in-house servers
• Integration - making disparate technologies work together seamlessly
• Cloud support - secure, scalable device management with easy on-boarding
• Monetization - enhanced profitability through reduced support costs while providing for secure lifecycle management
• Low-power operation – minimizing heat dissipation while addressing environmental issues
Rob Conant has a long history in the Internet of Things and connected products. Rob was a pioneer in the Internet of Things as a co-founder of Dust Networks in 2002 where he ran sales and marketing for the company and set the product direction as the company enabled a new market for wireless connected products in the industrial markets. After Dust, Rob joined Trilliant to bring the benefit of connected products to the energy industry, where he delivered smart meters and energy management to millions of customers across the US, Europe, and Asia. Rob first ran the engineering team to ensure the company had market-leading products, then took the position of Chief Marketing Officer to drive the company's growth. Rob's deep technical background and business orientation (ran sales and marketing at multiple companies) gives him a unique perspective on the interactions between business models, technology, and consumers. Rob has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
While communication speed for wireless technologies has been a priority for decades, the focus has started to shift to other parameters such as long-range and low-power connected devices. Networks with this focus are often referred to as low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN); Sensors in LPWAN networks communicate infrequently and can sleep from minutes to hours between every transmission. In such applications, high data throughput is not as important as being able to communicate over long distances, which is why the technology is optimized for long-range radio-frequency (RF) communication.
The Massive Internet of Things (MIOTY) protocol enables the division of data packets into smaller subpackets, causing them to spend less time in the air and therefore decreasing the risk of collisions and of data loss.The MIOTY solution offers a star network for low-power end nodes as well as a gateway solution for cloud connectivity with a complete long-range and low-power solution for worldwide Sub-1 GHz communication. The goal of the MIOTY Alliance, the governing body of MIOTY, is to enable the most accessible, robust and efficient connectivity solution on the market. The MIOTY protocol operates in license-free bands around the world, and there are no costs involved in using the radio spectrum, unlike narrowband IoT solutions.
The physical layer (PHY) and link layer of MIOTY technology are based on a publicly available document: the TS 103 357 public technical standard (TS) from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Eliminating the risk of vendor lock-in, MIOTY has already been tested with three independent silicon providers, including Texas Instruments (TI) using the CC1310 microcontroller (MCU). As of today, MIOTY offers a private network but the expectation is that third parties will also offer a network solution as a service.
The strongest advantage with MIOTY is the TSMA method, splitting up the data into smaller equally sized subpackets that are distributed over the time and frequency domains. This method creates a technology that is less susceptible to interference while also being friendlier to other radio systems. Because the packets are sent in smaller radio bursts, they spend less time in air, resulting in lower power consumption and a longer battery life.
MIOTY can help overcome performance degradation
in high-node-count networks and reaching remote sensors. Using MIOTY is
suitable for a wide range of battery operated applications that requires high
density of sensors and small data volumes.
Elin Wollert is an applications engineer at Texas Instruments in Norway. TI is a founding member of the MIOTY Alliance, and in Elin's role as project manager for MIOTY at TI, she is pushing the MIOTY technology forward.
Muhammad Shafique is Product Manager at Embedded Platform Solutions division in Mentor, a Siemens business. He has over 17 years of experience in the embedded software and his experience spans from deeply embedded software to all the way up to the higher layers of embedded software stack and device management in cloud (e.g. Internet of Things, edge stacks, industrial connectivity, etc.). In his current role, he is responsible for IoT/Cloud integration strategy for embedded Linux as well as real-time operating system products from Mentor Embedded Platform Solutions division. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Mittwoch, 18. November 2020
TRACK 1 VORMITTAGS
09:00 Uhr
Veronika Zellner is an Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft and passionate about all data-related topics. Especially Machine Learning in the cloud and on the edge. She has several years of experience in the Business Intelligence and IT consulting. Currently, Veronika is working at Microsoft in Munich, Germany.
AI application requires a lot of computation power and memory footprint. That is why, it is not new that, to deploying AI at the edge, it is necessary to have high-end processors, FPGAs or GPUs. Until recently, low-end devices receive a boost in the performance, which enables them to run an AI application with limited features. This talk will give the audience an overview of the development states, software aspects, hardware aspects that enable them to run an AI application.
Running AI at the edge allows the user to run AI applications locally on the hardware without any intervention from the cloud. The benefits are fast response time, less bandwidth consumption, and the devices can be deployed in a harsh environment, where the network facility may not be available. AI application requires a lot of computational power and memory footprint, which is available only on high-end devices like MPUs, GPUs, VPUs, and FPGAs. The low-end devices, mostly MCUs, are defined as the devices running bare metal (no operating system), having the clock frequency under 1GHz, and having limited memory. Consequently, deploying AI applications on those devices is out of the question.
Until recently, the low-end devices' performance has received a performance boost-up, which, some up them, can reach the clock frequency of 600MHz. Therefore, the idea of bringing AI capability to those low-end devices start to root up.
During this speak, we will discuss multiple approaches to provide a big picture of what is currently developed, what is the trend and where the limitation is. We will look at the new Arm Cortex-M55 processor, which is a new AI-capable microcontroller. We examine the aspects of that MCU to see how it helps to boost up the AI performance. Then, we will look at the software adaptions (TensorFlow Lite, CMSIS NN) for microcontrollers. Finally, we will look at the implementations coming from the silicon vendors.
Quang Hai Nguyen is working as Technology Field Application Engineer at Arrow Central Europe GmbH. He joined Arrow in 2015 as a Junior Engineer in the Graduate program. After the Graduate program, Quang Hai worked as an Application Engineer focusing on microcontrollers. Since 2019, he has been working as a Technology Field Application Engineer for high-end processors and security in embedded systems. At the beginning of this year, he has taken up additional responsibility supporting customers with AI at the edge technology.
However, the flexibilization within manufacturing processes, such as the use of Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV), often oppose the use of cable-based communication. Applying the new distributed Cloud Computing paradigm (Edge Computing) allows to reduce communication demand and to increase autonomy. Yet, reliable, low-latency and deterministic wireless communication is needed, but its standardization is still in its infancy. Upcoming 3GPP specifications try to fill this gap (TSN over 5G) and to experimentally validate and demonstrate the features of these concepts, we are implementing a first research prototype of a TSN-enabled Standalone 5G Core for industrial Campus Networks. Together with the adoption of the Edge Computing paradigm and a management layer for such an infrastructure, we're thereby moving towards fully configurable, flexible, software-based communication infrastructures.
The aim of this talk is to raise curiosity about the application possibilities of these technologies and to facilitate further discussions.
Dr.-Ing. Alexander Willner is head of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Center at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) and head of the IIoT research group within the chair of Next Generation Networks (AV) at the Technical University Berlin (TUB). In collaboration with the Berlin Center of Digital Transformation (BCDT), he works with his groups in applying standard-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to industrial domains, such as Industry 4.0. With a focus on moving towards the realization of software-based industrial communication infrastructures, the most important research areas include industrial real-time networks (e.g. TSN/5G), middleware systems (e.g. OPC UA), distributed AI (e.g. via Digital Twins) and distributed Cloud Computing (e.g. Edge Computing) including management and orchestration.
Fiona Treacy is a strategic marketing manager for Process Control and Automation focused on Industrial Connectivity at Analog Devices. Before this role, Fiona led the Marketing effort for MeasureWare and other Precision Instrumentation initiatives. She also held positions in Application Engineering and Test Development. Fiona holds a BSc. in Applied Physics and an MBA from the University of Limerick.
TRACK 2 VORMITTAGS
09:00 Uhr
Throughout this paper, we will talk about the what and how that makes IoT solutions complex; it’s not as simple as taking a puzzle you already have completed and adding a few additional pieces to expand the puzzle’s picture. The ability to capitalize on the already-established edge pieces, and then customize and integrate, will make the difference.
Through IoT solutions, machines are getting smarter, gaining context about where they are and what is around them to react. Essentially, we are making machines more human - connecting them to their human counterparts so that together, they can do more than ever before. When those intelligent machines are integrated into the enterprise, IoT allows you to remove tasks, decrease complexity and confusion for the end-user, and drive accurate, data-driven decision making.
The collection and analysis of data is imperative to uncovering value with IoT - this may be the focus of your product or only an add-on that enhances the core functionality that your users expect. Either way, you will need to thoroughly think through each component that gives your device the “Internet of Things” label: data collection, hardware connectivity, communication protocol, and device-level security measures.
Ralf Pühler is President/CEO Europe of KUDA llc, and a business development as well as an operations professional. Understanding customer needs and priorities lead to continuous customer dialogue from the initial idea until market breakthrough incl. quantifying the value and impact of ideas by testing them on the market. Ralf has been connecting things to the Internet for years and has helped customers transform from traditional into connected processes, to optimize cost, eclipse the competition, and create new revenue. He believes in success through providing industry-relevant concepts for value-adding IoT solutions.
Machine Learning (ML) und Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bilden die technische Grundlage für die Optimierung der Produktion und die Umsetzung von datenbasierten Services. Die Anwendung von KI und ML muss aber vereinfacht werden, um in der Breite das Nutzenpotential zu erschließen.
Die Entwicklung von ML-Lösungen ist zu großen Teilen ein manueller, kreativer und komplexer Prozess. Allein bei der Modellentwicklung gibt es bis zu 1040 Möglichkeiten ML-Verfahren, Feature oder Hyperparameter miteinander zu kombinieren. Dadurch ist der Modellbildungsprozess nur durch eine kleine Gruppe von Experten, den Data Scientists, leistbar. Es gibt zwar erste Software-Werkzeuge, um Teile des Modellbildungsprozesses zu automatisieren und den Data Scientists einen erheblichen Teil ihrer Arbeit abzunehmen. Zur Anwendung ist allerdings tiefgreifendes Wissen im Bereich ML notwendig. Darüber hinaus muss der Data Scientist mit dem Applikationsexperten sprechen, um die gefundenen Zusammenhänge in den Daten ingenieurmäßig bezüglich des Maschinenverhaltens oder des Produktionsprozesses zu interpretieren. Das Domänenwissen hat also einen ganz erheblichen Einfluss auf die Güte einer ML-Lösung.
Wenn das Domänenwissen also entscheidend ist und der Data Scientist ohnehin mit dem Applikationsexperten die gefunden Zusammenhänge in den Daten diskutieren muss, liegt es auf der Hand, Maschinen- und Prozessexperten gleich von vorneherein die Möglichkeit zu geben ML-Lösungen eigenständig zu erzeugen. Und zwar ohne selbst Data Scientist zu sein und ohne über Expertenwissen im Bereich KI oder ML zu verfügen.Der Beitrag stellt ein Konzept vor, das Applikationsexperten befähigt eigenständig auf Basis ihres Domänenwissens ML-Lösungen zu kreieren. Abgerundet wird der Beitrag durch ein Anwendungsbeispiel aus dem Maschinen- Anlagenbau, das demonstriert wie Domänenexperten in weniger als einer Stunde erste ML-Lösungen erzeugen können.
Tobias Gaukstern führt bei Weidmüller die Business Unit Industrial Analytics. In dieser Rolle baut er ein skalierendes SW-Geschäft für die Weidmüller Gruppe auf und führt Weidmüller von einem führenden Anbieter der elektrischen Verbindungstechnik zu einem Machine Learning Champion. Seine Vision: Die Anwendung von AI und ML zu vereinfachen und zu beschleunigen, so dass es gelingt mit diesen Technologien signifikante Wertschöpfungspotentiale in der Industrie in der Breite zu erschließen. Vor seiner aktuellen Tätigkeit war er als Industry Develo-pment Manager und als strategischer Produktmanager tätig.
Oliver Niedung grew up in Hannover, Germany, had various object-oriented software development roles before and after finishing his degree in Medical Informatics at the University of Hildesheim. He had development and sales roles at Berner & Mattner and Visio, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1999. At Microsoft, Oliver managed the Embedded Server activities in EMEA with leading global OEMs until 2015. Since then, Oliver works with the most strategic Microsoft OEMs and partners in Europe on digital transformation and highly innovative IoT solutions.
Markus Weishaar hat 2012 ein Studium der Elektrotechnik (B. Eng.) an der Hochschule Ulm abgeschlossen und dieses 2017 berufsbegleitend durch einen Abschluss in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (M. Sc.) ergänzt. Nach insgesamt 11 Jahren im Verpackungsmaschinenbau in unterschiedlichen Software- & Leitungsfunktionen betreut Markus Weishaar bei Dunkermotoren seit Mai 2019 als Produktmanager die Themengebiete IIoT und Software.
defined shopfloor solutions.
Johannes joined the BCG group four years ago. Since July 1, 2020, he is Associate Director, located in the Munich office. With BCG, and it’s subsidiary BCG Digital Ventures, he worked on multiple end-to-end software-driven, and Cloud/IoT related business builds and product definitions. Before BCG, Johannes held multiple senior software management and engineering positions. Johannes designed one of the first Edge-powered industrial robot setups. Therefore, BCG and AWS cooperated on a demo setup for a large manufacturer and demonstrated the results on the HMI in 2017. It was one of the first AWS Greengrass installations.
TRACK 1 NACHMITTAGS
13:45 Uhr
Dr. Pierre Gembaczka is a scientific assistant since 2014. He studied Microtechnology and Medical Technology and held a Master's degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen. Afterward, he completed his doctorate at the Fraunhofer IMS in cooperation with the University of Duisburg Essen and obtained the academic degree of a doctor of engineering. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a research assistant in the department Micro- and Nanosystems - Pressure Sensors at Fraunhofer IMS. Since 2018 he works in the embedded systems group at Fraunhofer IMS and researches embedded AI solutions for various applications. He is the primary developer of the AI software framework AIfES (Artificial Intelligence for Embedded Systems)
Machine Learning (ML) und Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bilden die technische Grundlage für die Optimierung der Produktion und die Umsetzung von datenbasierten Services. Die Anwendung von KI und ML muss aber vereinfacht werden, um in der Breite das Nutzenpotential zu erschließen.
Die Entwicklung von ML-Lösungen ist zu großen Teilen ein manueller, kreativer und komplexer Prozess. Allein bei der Modellentwicklung gibt es bis zu 1040 Möglichkeiten ML-Verfahren, Feature oder Hyperparameter miteinander zu kombinieren. Dadurch ist der Modellbildungsprozess nur durch eine kleine Gruppe von Experten, den Data Scientists, leistbar. Es gibt zwar erste Software-Werkzeuge, um Teile des Modellbildungsprozesses zu automatisieren und den Data Scientists einen erheblichen Teil ihrer Arbeit abzunehmen. Zur Anwendung ist allerdings tiefgreifendes Wissen im Bereich ML notwendig. Darüber hinaus muss der Data Scientist mit dem Applikationsexperten sprechen, um die gefundenen Zusammenhänge in den Daten ingenieurmäßig bezüglich des Maschinenverhaltens oder des Produktionsprozesses zu interpretieren. Das Domänenwissen hat also einen ganz erheblichen Einfluss auf die Güte einer ML-Lösung.
Wenn das Domänenwissen also entscheidend ist und der Data Scientist ohnehin mit dem Applikationsexperten die gefunden Zusammenhänge in den Daten diskutieren muss, liegt es auf der Hand, Maschinen- und Prozessexperten gleich von vorneherein die Möglichkeit zu geben ML-Lösungen eigenständig zu erzeugen. Und zwar ohne selbst Data Scientist zu sein und ohne über Expertenwissen im Bereich KI oder ML zu verfügen.Der Beitrag stellt ein Konzept vor, das Applikationsexperten befähigt eigenständig auf Basis ihres Domänenwissens ML-Lösungen zu kreieren. Abgerundet wird der Beitrag durch ein Anwendungsbeispiel aus dem Maschinen- Anlagenbau, das demonstriert wie Domänenexperten in weniger als einer Stunde erste ML-Lösungen erzeugen können.
Dieter Kiermaier works with Arrow as a Technical Solution Architect. He started his career as a developer for embedded Linux systems. For six years, he is active in the area of electronic component distribution, working as Technology Field Application Engineer for High-End processors and System-on-modules. At the beginning of this year, he moved into the role of a Technical Solution Architect for Embedded Systems and Cloud-based solutions at eInfochips (an Arrow Company).
Being aware of this requirement we took the decision to develop our own software tools and IP-Core architecture. To get a prove of concept of this new technology AVI decided to realize a concrete application, which is the truck turn assistant “CAREYE SAFETY ANGLE” that is already on the market and has the required type approvals from the Kraftfahrzeug-Bundesamt (KBA). This product includes a deep-learning based object detector running on a less power consuming and fan less controller box.
Johannes Traxler attended the HTBLuVA for telecommunications and computer science in St. Pölten. Thereupon he studied technical physics and astronomy at the TU in Vienna. During his studies, he concentrated on “Artificial Intelligence“-research and development with machine learning, based on early recognition of tumor cells. In between 1999 and 2002, he worked as director of research and development at “ArtiBrain Forschungs- und Entwicklungs GmbH” to implement machine learning-based tunnel safety and incident detection systems for the first time. In 2013, he founded the “AVI-Systems GmbH,” where he started with deep-learning-based applications for manufacturing inline inspection systems in 2014. Since this period, he acted as CEO, invented new approaches for real-time video transmission with his team, and collaborated with different research organizations to develop deep-learning applications. Mr. Traxler is head of the task force “Videodetektion in VBA, “which is a part of the German Road and Transportation Research association and makes significant contributions to the development of technical standards and guidelines for Germany.
The worldwide shift towards digitization has placed immense pressure on connectivity. Over 20 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices have already been installed, and the number is estimated to grow to 75.44 billion by 2025. IoT devices benefit all industry sectors, promoting higher levels of convenience, productivity, and communication. To keep up with the vast amounts of data we need to utilize the processing power on the IoT devices and make the IoT edge intelligent.
Edge computing solves two problems by merging them together into one solution. On the one hand, the constraint on cloud data centers to handle increasing amounts of data is about to reach a breaking point. On the other hand, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems consume information in such a speed that there doesn’t seem to be enough. Edge databases enables applications to bring Machine Learning (ML) models to the edge .
Powered by real-time databases and AI, the intelligent edge can provide real-time insights for the improvement of many industries. Last-mile delivery is made faster and more efficient with features such as smart tracking and real-time route navigation. Intelligent systems can provide stylistic insights for customers as they browse the shop, and facial recognition software can be used for fraud detection. Edge intelligence can provide predictive risk assessments for healthcare professionals and promote better health awareness. There’s no limit as to the benefits the intelligent edge can provide, not even the cloud.
David Nguyen is the Head of Engineering & QA at Raima. He started his career as a QA Software Engineer with work on the creation and maintenance of a fully automated testing QA framework and a complete daily build system. As the Director of Engineering he is leading the development in modernizing the database product line with a feature focus on AI, autonomous driving and edge IoT while ensuring the customer experience is as straightforward and easy to use as possible. David holds a B.S. in both Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Max ist Maschinenbauingenieur und fasziniert davon, Fertigungsprozesse mit Software zu verbessern. Er schloss sei Studien an der ETH Zürich, Caltech, Duke und EPFL Lausanne ab. Bevor er Actyx mitbegründete, forschte er auf dem Gebiet der physikalischen Chemie.
TRACK 2 NACHMITTAGS
13:45 Uhr
- Internetzugangstechnologien und Funktechnologien für Condition Monitoring-Lösungen: Wann eignet sich WLAN, Lora, Sigfox oder Mobilfunk am besten; je nach Anwendung betrachtet;
- Prozessüberwachung und -automatisierung mit Sensorlösungen
- Herausforderungen von Funk
- Anwendungsbeispiel: Motorenüberwachung bei Murrelektronik
Thomas Schildknecht ist Gründer und Vorstand der Schildknecht AG, einem Spezialisten für Industrie-Datenfunk und das industrielle Internet of Things. Das Unternehmen entwickelte u.a. ein zukunftsweisendes Funksystem für den industriellen Einsatz, um sichere und stabile Funkübertragungen möglich zu machen. Das Unternehmen ist zudem Systemanbieter im Bereich Fernüberwachung und Fernwartung, Telemetrie sowie M2M.
However, without a fixed and reproducible data analysis workflow, even medium-sized data sets can easily be overwhelming, and one can get lost in its details, missing obvious patterns.
In his talk, Nikolai Hlubek will present an example workflow that starts from scratch by the planning of laboratory experiments and ends with a trained machine-learning model on a microcontroller. This workflow will use freely available tools. The explorative data analysis is done in python and jupyter notebooks. The model building is done with keras. The optimization of a keras model for the microcontroller is done with X-CUBE-AI from ST.
Nikolai Hlubek is a Research and Development Engineer at Bürkert Fluid Control Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in physics and has been doing data science for more than ten years. Nikolai is the winner of 2017 What The Data!? Hackathon.
It is more challenging to define techniques and measures to follow when AI is to be designed as a critical part of functional safety. Fundamental research is needed to give the required confidence in such solutions integrating AI in functionally safe systems.
The presentation is about ongoing activities in the areas of “process design” and “techniques and measures.” It should result in starting a discussion if these activities will result in more confidence in solutions with AI as a critical part of functional safety.
Frank Poignée is Chief Engineer and Safety Consultant at infoteam SET. He is a Project Manager for industrial automation, medical engineering, and life science. Frank is also the Product Owner of the infoteam Functional Safety Management Process iFSM. Frank is ASQF/ISTQB Certified Tester and TÜV Functional Safety Engineer for Hard- and Software.
AI / Edge computing requires large, compute-intensive tasks and complicated neural network models to be executed in a constrained environment.
These challenges are overcome by using a number of specialized processors, CPU, GPU, DSP and NPU, which evolve with each generation.
Using such a heterogeneous computer architecture for the execution of sophisticated neural networks allows low power operation within thermal limits, by selecting the right block for the right task. Together with the brand-new Qualcomm Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator, this is pushing 15 trillion operations per second(TOPS) with maximum efficiency to run complex AI and deep learning workloads at the Edge. Thanks to the support for 5G connectivity speeds , this creates a framework for the development of a wide range of next-generation applications.
Dominik Bohn arbeitet seit seinem Studium ( B.Eng WI Elektrotechnik & M.Eng Information, Technology & Management) bei der Atlantik Elektronik. Von 2013 an betreute er dort das embedded Portfolio als Field Application Engineer und ist seit diesem Jahr als Product Manager für 5G & KI Lösungen basierend auf Qualcomm & Thundercomm Technologien verantwortlich.
Alexander Samuelsson is CTO of imagimob, which he founded together with Tony Hartley and Anders Hardebring in 2013. Alex has extensive experience in software development in areas such as mobile apps, mobile games and cloud systems. Previously he studied Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Imagimob offers artificial intelligence products for edge devices. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the company has been serving customers within the automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and lifestyle industries since 2013.
