An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Most vendors we talk to are basically transforming data and moving bits from one place to another. That’s cool to us, but if you have read our previous coverage of Umajin in 2022, 2020 and 2018, you’d understand why we keep taking briefings with them, because their advances give our audience a glimpse into the real-world application of location and physical data at the edge of a cloud of disparate devices.
Millimeter-accurate virtual environments that inherit the material and spatial characteristics of the real world are useful for training, gaming, and simulation purposes, but there’s more to it than that.
Consider the value of a digital twin with observability into, and feedback from, all of the machinery, inventory and labor at play within an entire wired facility. Specialized tools that only operate when they are confirmed to be touching the correct part of a welded assembly, or routines that can spot a production line bottleneck, or notice if workers are displaying unsafe work behaviors to catch up.
Further, we are seeing the horizon of now-ubiquitous smartphones with excellent cameras, sensors, connectivity, and AI inference processing power joining this virtual edge and moving outside the facility. An enhanced low-code development environment makes it easy to gather objects, assign metadata properties, and manipulate applications based on a cloud of IoT inputs.
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