Cognitive Internet of Things is about enabling current IoT technologies with human-like intelligence. Cognitive systems in the context of IoT would play a key role in future.

Download this short ebook (under 15 pages)  to get an overview on Internet of Things and Cognitive Computing, its architecture and synergies between them.

The book comprises of 4 parts –

1. Introduction to Internet of Things.
2. Introduction to Cognitive Computing.
3. Cognitive Internet of Things
4. Architecture of a connected world.

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“Internet of Things is a vision where every object in the world has the potential to connect to the Internet and provide their data so as to derive actionable insights on its own or through other connected objects“

“Cognitive computing are systems that are designed to make computers think and learn like a human brain. Similar to an evolution of a human mind from a newborn to teenager to an adult, where new information is learned and existing information augmented, cognitive system learn through the vast amount of information fed to it. Such a system is trained on a set of information or data so that it can understand the context and help in making informed decisions.”

Cognitive Internet of Things is about enabling current IoT technologies with human-like intelligence.

This is a short ebook under 15 pages targeted to get an overview on Internet of Things and Cognitive Computing and synergies between them.

The book has 4 sections –
1.Introduction to Internet of Things.
2.Introduction to Cognitive Computing.
3.Cognitive Internet of Things
4.The architecture of a connected world.

Click Here to download this ebook free.

Enjoy reading it.

Cognitive Retail Platform

Happy to announce Cittin Cognitive Retail Cloud Platform , an end-to-end cognitive, digital marketing and analytical platform for retail.

Checkout Peffy – The personalized cognitive shopping application powered by Cittin Cognitive Retail Cloud Platform, which showcases some of our platform cognitive services.

Checkout the youtube video for more details on the Peffy Application

From a technology perspective, the Peffy application showcases the use of various machine learning algorithms, cognitive computing, natural language processing, personalisation  and visual search through the usage of Cittin Cognitive Retail platform. Checkout the live demo at http://peffy.in/
Stay tuned for more updates.

For queries and questions, reach out to me at naveen@cittin.io

Let me first start with an introduction on “Cognitive Computing”. Cognitive computing are systems that are designed to make computer’s think and learn like human brain.Similar to an evolution of a human mind from new born to child to an adult, where new information is learned and existing information augmented, cognitive system’s learn through the vast amount of information fed to it and training on a set of information,so it can understand the context and help in making informed decisions.

For example, if you look at any learning methodology, a human mind learns and understand the context, but its equipped to answer questions in an examination/interview which it might not have seen before, but using the experiences and past learning,a informed judgement can be made. Similarly cognitive systems are modelled to learn from past set of reference data set (or learning) to help users make informed decisions. Cognitive systems can be thought of non programming systems which learns through the set of information, training, interactions and a reference data set.

From a technology perspective, at a very high level, building a cognitive systems requires technologies that can understand the language,context, entities and relationship (NLP), learn through a set of supervised or unsupervised learning (Machine learning methodology), domain adoption through various techniques, technologies to help source, curate and manage content, runtimes to  build out the components together in a loosely coupled manner and wide variety of  tooling’s and methodology to enable making cognitive applications. I envision most of the cognitive capabilities offered as service over a cloud (a marketplace for cognitive and smart apps) which can be used individually or as a composite to create applications. Best way to get started with building cognitive applications, its through the Cognitive Services Zone on bluemix

So where does Internet of Things fits into the cognitive world. I assume you are aware of IoT, if not, please read my introductory blog at – IOT – Are you connected?

Let’s start with high level view of an IoT Cognitive Systems Architecture. The real value of IOT applications is realized by enabling them as part of existing applications and higher value added services to create new innovative business solutions.

IoT is not just limited to devices and sensors, but how do you derive real insights from the sensor data, filter and analyze the data and use the information with multiple data sources, understand and infer relationship in context of the use case to augment current application with new offerings or build new innovate solutions. The architecture talks about the evolution of an application, building on the value chain and how various cloud services and offering are used to enable smarter applications.

Let’s take an example of a cognitive IoT application. I have taken a very simple example to get the technology and benefits across.

1. I step out of my home and the home electricity turns into a power saver mode.
2. I step into the car and the car recognizes me.
3. My car seats are automatically adjusted.
4. My favorite music station is set and play list is started.
5. An aggregated news for the day is available and tailored for me on my dashboard and read it out by the dashboard device. If I am travelling, weather forecast and news related to the place I am travelling is available as an add-on.
6. As I pass by malls, my car reminds to purchase stuffs.
7. I sync my digital cart and get my purchases quickly. No need to move around, find things and put it to a physical cart.
8. I come back to my car, I start interacting with the Car in Natural human language instead of typing in numbers and searching for things.
9. I ask for good places for lunch which I haven’t visited. Based on my past experience’s and cuisine preference,ratings from third party sites, a set of recommendations are provided. I choose one of them.
10. GPS devices are synced up based on my response and direction’s changed.
11. Alternative route is automatically selected based on traffic sensor’s which the GPS device is subscribed to.
12. I have lunch, I don’t need to carry cards, I am being recognized. The best credit card (after checking available offers for that restaurant) from my digital wallet is automatically selected and used for the payment. Welcome to smart cashless transactions.
13. I come back home, lights are back up again, all devices started.
14. I say “good night”, lights are dimmed and tell my clock to wake me up at 7:00 am after checking my flight status.

As you see in the above example, the real value is derived from how data from sensors are used as part of the broader ecosystem and how cognitive capabilities and learning are used to provide value added services.

These are just one of the many experiences. The real experiences would be technology touching our every day lives and making it easier and a better place to live. I gave a consumer driven example, but IoT benefits can be leveraged across industries – connected cars, aviation, manufacturing, predictive maintenance, healthcare, insurance etc..

With the context set, I suggest to read my follow on blog on “Architecture of a Connected World“.

Following is a high level view on how I visualize an IOT Cognitive Systems Architecture. The real value of IOT applications is realized by enabling them as part of existing applications and higher value added services to create new innovative business solutions.

Over the next few years, most of the capabilities (leaving out some of the hybrid cloud use cases) would be available as cloud services, enabling creating of smart business applications through a plug and play architecture. I evasion an ecosystem of cloud services (much like an apple or an android app/play store), where applications can be assembled from multiple providers to provide higher value solutions.

PS- The above are some of my rough drafts on my upcoming book on “Advanced Computing – A Futuristic View” which covers IOT, Cognitive, Big Data, Cloud Services, Analytic and Smart Applications.

Smart Computing – IOT meets Cognitive Computing

A peep in the future of connected world –

1. I step out of my home and the home electricity turns into a power saver mode.
2. I step into the car and the car recognizes me.
3. My car seats are automatically adjusted.
4. My favorite music station is set and play list is started.
5. An aggregated news for the day is available and tailored for me on my dashboard and read it out by the dashboard device. If I am travelling, weather forecast and news related to the place I am travelling is available as an add-on.
6. As I pass by malls, my car reminds to purchase stuffs.
7. I sync my digital cart and get my purchases quickly. No need to move around, find things and put it to a physical cart.
8. I come back to my car, I start interacting with the Car in Natural human language instead of typing in numbers and searching for things.
9. I ask for good places for lunch which I haven’t visited. Based on my past experience’s and cuisine preference,ratings from third party sites, a set of recommendations are provided. I choose one of them.
10. GPS devices are synced up based on my response and direction’s changed.
11. Alternative route is automatically selected based on traffic sensor’s which the GPS device is subscribed to.
12. I have lunch, I don’t need to carry cards, I am being recognized. The best credit card (after checking available offers for that restaurant) from my digital wallet is automatically selected and used for the payment. Welcome to smart cashless transactions.
13. I come back home, lights are back up again, all devices started.
14. I say “good night”, lights are dimmed and tell my clock to wake me up at 7:00 am after checking my flight status.

These are just one of the many experiences. The real experiences would be technology touching our every day lives and making it easier and a better place to live.