Today, with the adoption of IoT, the retail industry has become more customer-centric, and the primary aim is to enhance the customer experience to its greatest extent. Technology has become a critical piece of the pie to spark higher engagement and improve customer experience, and now, thanks to digital platforms, businesses are experiencing many changes, and the internet and mobile devices have enabled consumers to connect with companies in creative new ways.
One of the most dominant forms of technology being rapidly adopted by the retail industry is Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the internet. The recent advances in technology, including artificial intelligence, cloud, business intelligence, analytics, and others that fall under the IoT umbrella have massively impacted the retail industry.
“Retailers are reaching for innovative solutions to find new opportunities for generating revenue and building modern business models,” said Allen Salmasi, founder and CEO of Veea. “Driven by the need to improve business operations and become more customer-oriented, both online and offline retail markets are striving to eliminate the limitations in their services by using various advanced technologies and creating personalized customer experiences.”
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After an event like a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or wildfire, communities need help to cover the cost of debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures and restoring public infrastructure.
The recently passed American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 allocates $50 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund to help state, local, tribal and territorial governments respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies.
As cities look at ways to address the planet’s most significant challenges, from natural disasters to hunger and even sustainability, they need to invest in Internet of Things solutions embedded with advanced analytics to better prepare for and react to these incidents.
With connected sensors and long-range, low-power IoT technology that leverages artificial intelligence and streaming analytics, cities can implement end-to-end solutions that enable businesses and organizations to adopt new models for IT, edge analytics and platform-based security, and in turn, harness real-time data and advanced analytics to deliver meaningful results. The combination of IoT-enabled analytics, devices and networks will accelerate intelligent decisioning and improve overall response time in the event a natural disaster does occur.
Continue reading: https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/10/bringing-iot-and-analytics-forefront-disaster-preparedness-and-response

The internet-of-things, or IoT, is the future. IoT describes the interconnected network of “smart” devices that surround us — devices that used to be analog. These physical objects, say a thermostat or a doorbell, are now embedded with sensors, processors, and the ability to interact with the world around them. Products like Samsung’s (KRX: 005930) line of smart-fridges, Amazon’s AMZN +0.04% (Get Free Alerts for AMZN) Ring, and Google’s GOOGL +0.37% (Get Free Alerts for GOOGL) Nest.
It will not be long before these products are utterly ubiquitous and surround us wherever we go, integrating into our daily lives. In fact, in many ways they already do, filling many homes. 
These smart home devices, the term used to describe IoT specific to the home, are already big business, with giants like Google, Amazon and Apple AAPL +0.16%
 betting on their own devices to help you control and operate your smart home. Google Home, Alexa, and Siri all are hoping they can be the ones you ask to turn the lights on or open the garage door.
Continue reading: https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/10/23280688/explosive-growth-smart-homes-and-the-internet-of-things

Sheree Atcheson has many years’ experience in the tech industry and is currently head of diversity and inclusion at Valtech.
A Sri-Lankan-born Irish computer scientist who won the main award at this year’s Diversity in Tech Awards has said she is “honored to play a role” in creating an industry that “truly does work for everyone”.
Sheree Atcheson took home the Grace Hopper Award, named after the pioneering US female computer programmer, at this year’s awards organized by Dublin Tech Summit and AWS.
The awards, now in their fourth year, aim to highlight the achievements of companies and individuals that promote different backgrounds and genders across Ireland’s technology industry and encourage young women to choose STEM careers.
Adopted at a young age by a couple based in Co Tyrone, Atcheson recounted the story of how she found her birth mother in a moving speech at Silicon Republic’s Inspirefest event in 2018. Her trip to Sri Lanka to find out where she was born prompted Atcheson to found social responsibility project I Am Sri Lanka.
Continue reading: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/diversity-tech-awards-sheree-atcheson

Globally, 3.7 billion people do not have access to the internet. Half of them are women. In some parts of the world the digital gender divide has been shrinking, but data shows it is growing in Africa.
The pandemic has shown that access to technology is not a luxury anymore, it is a necessity, especially for girls. There is a gender digital divide globally: girls are disadvantaged when it comes to digital adoption, have lower levels of access to and use of digital technology than boys, and often they are not benefitting from digital technology as boys are.
To address this, UN Women, in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU) implemented the African Girls Can Code Initiative to train African girls in critical coding and tech skills. Launched in 2018, the first phase of the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) has trained 600 girls, developed a guide on mainstreaming ICT, gender and coding in national curricula across the continent, launched an eLearning platform and hosted a series of webinars to keep the learning going in the pandemic.
This year Generation Equality Forum, convened by UN Women and the Governments of France and Mexico in collaboration with civil society, launched ground breaking Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality and collected commitments from all over the world, including from Actional Coalition Leader the Government of Rwanda. The Action Coalition will tackle the digital gender divide as its importance is growing with the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to contain it.
Continue reading: https://www.africanews.com/2021/10/07/addressing-the-digital-gender-divide-in-africa-through-the-african-girls-can-code-initiative/

The Association of the Internet Industry e. V. (eco) wants to strengthen the diversity in IT and technology. The association presented recommendations for action for IT companies on Thursday. For more gender diversity at technically oriented events, the association is also setting up a public directory of female speakers.
LiT – Ladies in Tech
According to a study commissioned by eco, the proportion of women in the IT industry is only 17 percent. In view of the shortage of skilled workers, the association sees a lot of catching up to do here. The association has a white paper under the banner of its #LiT (Ladies in Tech) initiative “Women in Tech. Status Quo, Strategies, Best Practices and Success Factors” published, which in addition to an inventory also contains recommendations for action for the industry.
Continue reading: https://marketresearchtelecast.com/ladies-in-tech-it-industry-should-promote-women-more/173700/

Today’s Woman in Tech: Sara Boddy, Senior Director F5 Labs
Sara Boddy is senior director at the technology company F5 Labs. At the F5 Cloud and Security Solutions company, she has worked for four years in the active IT security analysis department, the F5 Labs Threat Intelligence Team. Her entry into technology: computer games.
When did you become interested in technology?
I entered the security industry in the late 90s, three weeks after graduating from high school. Back then, security automatically equated to network security – and college programs didn’t exist in this area at all. In fact, very few colleges even offered computer science. I got a job as a receptionist at Conjungi Networks, which was owned by two boys in Seattle. They were some of the most advanced security thinkers at the time. We were one of the few companies in the area doing firewall implementations, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, or incident response.
What did your career path look like?
My superiors at Conjungi saw potential in me and let me manage the backup tapes. After a few years, I performed basic configuration on SonicWALL firewalls, wrote work instructions, and edited vulnerability assessments for customers. Things really got interesting when the company was involved in a covert operation with the FBI on a major hacker extortion case involving one of our customers. I was perhaps 21 years old at the time, and it was an exciting job for me. I knew then that I wanted to work in this field for the rest of my life. Four companies and 20 years later I am still working with Ray Pompon, who was the lead investigator in this case at Conjungi.
Continue reading: https://jaxenter.com/women-in-tech-boddy-173008.html

Experts say unmanned air travel is on the horizon and concepts such as air taxis and other unmanned cargo transport — even pizza delivery — are much closer to reality than ever.
To show how close, a few local aerial tech entrepreneurs demoed their crafts Wednesday to a few dozen spectators. The program was hosted by the local chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the aviation firm Longbow Group
The companies showed off their drones at Longbow’s test center at Fort Monroe, including those capable of mapping, surveying, underwater surveillance and robotics.
“The first question to ask yourself, if you had a magic carpet, what would you use a magic carpet for?” said Bill Fredericks, who founded Hampton-based Advanced Aircraft Company, one of the tech entrepreneurial companies demonstrating Wednesday. “That’s a very open-ended question. Right now, we’re currently focused on survey mapping and infrastructure inspection. But there are many other use cases.”
Continue reading: https://www.dailypress.com/business/dp-nw-hampton-fort-monroe-drones-20211007-ghw4vxercvc57avlklkd76ikhe-story.html

SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, announced today that it has released a new autonomous remote UAV operations capability to allow flight managers and operators to control and execute flights from remote locations. Using artificial intelligence and a broad array of airspace-related data feeds, SkyGrid is enabling safe remote operations for missions involving single and multiple drones.
Organizations can use SkyGrid to facilitate routine inspections over an area of interest and generate optimal flight paths for multiple flight segments. These optimized segments are then linked automatically to create complete routes. The company’s advanced route generation capabilities create the safest route for each drone based on the flight plan, environmental conditions, the vehicle’s performance, and the mission criteria with minimum onsite support required for flight operations. With the new remote UAV operations functionality, SkyGrid will now allow remote operators to create and deploy these automated missions to a fleet of geographically disbursed aerial vehicles.
Continue reading: https://www.suasnews.com/2021/10/skygrid-launches-autonomous-remote-uav-operations-solution/

Apple and Siri. Amazon and Alexa. Microsoft and Cortana. Aquiline Drones and Spartacus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained increasing popularity across industries.  Worldwide revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services, are forecast to grow 40.2% annually, topping $997.77 billion by the end of 2028, according to a latest report by Grand View Research, an international consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies understand the global and regional business environment. (Artificial Intelligence Market Size Analysis Report, 2021-2028 (grandviewresearch.com)
Earlier today, Connecticut-based Aquiline Drones Corporation (AD) announced the acquisition of ElluminAI Labs, LLC to support further development of its AI framework called Spartacus.  This is AD’s second strategic acquisition in the company’s pre-IPO plan. It was just last month that AD completed the purchase of 50% of Netherlands-based AerialTronics, a renowned drone manufacturer, for $9.0M USD from Paris-based Drone Volt (ALDRV).  This was principally to bolster AD’s in-house R&D capabilities.  Drone Volt is a publicly traded French drone manufacturer and leader in AI technology with which AD has a strong, equity-based partnership.  
Continue reading: https://www.officer.com/command-hq/technology/security-surveillance/uav-uas/press-release/21241462/aquiline-drones-aquiline-drones-acquires-elluminai-to-create-deeplearning-drones

Promising commercial applications of drones are lagging within the U.S. because of the lack of a regulatory framework, says Arjun Garg, former FAA chief counsel and now a partner at Hogan Lovells. He argues that regulation must be expedited so the U.S. can realize their economic, environmental, and societal benefits.
A new era of aviation innovation is upon us as drones—uncrewed, autonomous aircraft—take flight alongside traditional crewed aircraft. Tucked within President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is an affirmation of the “great potential” of drones and a directive for federal regulators to “facilitate innovation that fosters U.S. market leadership and market entry” for emerging aviation technologies such as this one.
Drones present a massive economic opportunity, but today’s federal regulatory framework is hindering innovation rather than facilitating it. Why? Because, despite important advances made under the Obama and Trump administrations since a congressional direction in 2012, Federal Aviation Administration regulations have not kept pace with what drones can safely and efficiently do.
Continue reading: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/faa-needs-to-unleash-the-commercial-potential-of-drones

Privacy advocates are rightly concerned with the proliferation of drones in the hands of law enforcement. Can transparency help mollify concerns?
That question is being put to the test in Southern California. The Chula Vista Police Department (CVPD), which has an active drone program, is teaming up with AirData UAV to transparency public drone flights. Mirroring the increased focus by police departments nationwide on effective public information campaigns, the hope for law enforcement officials is that easily accessible data, including flight and mission details, will help mollify a distrustful public.
"Transparency and accountability are key components in the success of our drone program, which has been an invaluable tool in maintaining the safety of our officers and the public," says Chief Roxana Kennedy, Chula Vista Police Department. "We pride ourselves on ensuring the public has access to our drone flight information in upholding the trust of our community."
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/will-citizens-ever-be-comfortable-with-police-drones/

In what is perhaps a preview of things to come, northern Virginia’s first commercial food drone delivery was completed Thursday morning, with food from Roots 657 Cafe in Lucketts being delivered to Rust and Feathers, a nearby antiques store.
Through a partnership with Xelevate Solutions, a new unmanned flight training center opening this month on Taylorstown Road in Lucketts, and Vayu Aerospace, a drone manufacturer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the two organizations teamed up with Chef Rich Rosendale, owner of Roots 657 for a proof of concept by delivering a freshly-made brisket sandwich using a custom-built U.S. drone made by Vayu.
“We wanted to show this can be done in Northern Virginia because this airspace is one of the most complicated,” said Preston Huntington, client relations manager for Xelevate Solutions. “Xelevate wants to be thought leaders in promoting this safely, and this is a mature model of what it looks like. This is a great example of some of the good things we can do with drones,” he said.
Continue reading: https://www.loudountimes.com/news/new-drone-flight-center-partners-with-local-restaurant-for-airborne-delivery/article_4e8cb538-26f0-11ec-a4f3-53b5e9de2b57.html

The advent of new technology brings along with it the murkiness of how the American legal system will treat such technology.  Before the rise of blockchain for instance, businesses were uncertain how courts would treat electronic records and signatures until the federal legislature enacted the E-Sign Act on June 30, 2000. To provide even more clarity to businesses, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (the “UETA”) to provide states with a framework to enact laws governing the enforceability of electronic records and signatures.  Now, almost every state in the U.S. has adopted some form of the UETA, and industry heavily relies on electronic contracting.
The legislative process has already begun for blockchain technology. Arizona and Tennessee both enacted laws stating that (1) a blockchain technology signature is considered an electronic signature, and (2) a blockchain technology record is considered an electronic record.  Further, these laws say that courts may not deny a contract legal validity because the contract contains a “smart contract” term.  Other states are also attempting to adapt their current commercial laws to blockchain technologies.  Wyoming, for example, is breaking ground by addressing blockchain’s impact on the attachment, perfection, and priority rules of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.  Similarly, Delaware and Maryland have amended their general corporation and limited liability company laws to permit the use of blockchain technologies for creating and maintaining company records with respect to equity interests.
Continue reading: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/legal-implications-blockchain-supply-chain-what-s-law-got-to-do-it

To get insight into the skill sets required to create AI and machine learning (ML) models, it's useful to get a sense of the model creation process, which is the gradual learning done by ML software, and the challenges faced to produce a model that meets predefined success criteria.
ML software uses data to train a model, with the model constituting an AI "product" that can be reused over time through regular AI input data updates. ML software has four basic learning types: 

• Supervised: Involves making the algorithm learn the data while providing the correct answers using labels placed on the data. This essentially means that the classes or the values to be predicted are known and well defined for the algorithm from the very beginning. 
• Unsupervised: Unlike supervised methods the algorithm doesn't have correct answers or any answers at all, it is up to the algorithm's discretion to bring together similar data and understand it.
• Semi-supervised: A hybrid of supervised and unsupervised learning.
• Reinforcement: In reinforcement learning, rewards are given to the algorithm upon every correct prediction, driving the accuracy higher up.

Continue reading: https://www.ciodive.com/news/AI-machine-learning-basics-train-test/607410/

With artificial intelligence technology, medical professionals can quickly and accurately sort through breast MRIs in patients with dense breast tissue to eliminate those without cancer.
Mammography has assisted in reducing breast cancer-related deaths by providing early detection when cancer is still treatable. However, it is less sensitive in women with extremely dense breast tissue than fatty breast tissue.
Additionally, women with extremely dense breasts are three to six times more likely to develop breast cancer than women with almost entirely fatty breasts and two times more likely than the average woman.
Supplemental screening in women with dense breast tissue increased the sensitivity of cancer detection. Research from the Denise Tissue and Early Breast Neoplasm Screening (DENSE) Trial supported the use of supplemental screening with MRI.
Continue reading: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/artificial-intelligence-advances-breast-cancer-detection

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a call for action to halve the annual rate of road deaths globally and ensure access to safe, affordable and sustainable transport for everyone by 2030. 
According to the newly launched initiative, faster progress on AI is vital to make this happen, especially in low and middle-income countries, where the most lives are lost on the roads each year. 
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.3 million people die annually as a result of road traffic crashes. Between 20 and 50 million more suffer non-fatal injuries, with many incurring a disability. 
Continue reading: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102522

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a red-hot topic, with record levels of investment in “AI” companies and promises of capabilities that will revolutionize our lives. Many are puzzling through how AI can add value, and a growing number of vendors claim to be “AI-powered.” Given the buzz and rush to wrap the mantle of AI around any new technology, it makes sense to ask the basic question, “What exactly is AI?”
Start with the practical definition that artificial intelligence is any technology that tries to replicate some broader aspect of human intelligence. I emphasize “broader,” as that’s where a fair amount of confusion emerges. Think, for example, of the ability to perform arithmetic. Most people would agree that this capability is uniquely human. But I doubt anyone would conclude that a calculator is built on artificial intelligence.
It’s the broad capabilities that involve higher-order compound intelligence that makes the difference. Karen Hao’s freehand flow chart offers a great visual of the distinction that emerges around these more complex cognitive capabilities. One of the key elements is that AI does more than just capture data and perform a predetermined task. A camera cannot identify an object, and optical character recognition (OCR) cannot read a document. AI goes a step beyond this by applying some degree of “intelligence” to interpret the data and offer a next level of insight. But that’s still short of a far more complex and elusive element of human intelligence.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/10/07/what-is-artificial-intelligence/?sh=11e525e41890

Singapore and Finland have inked an agreement to mutually recognize each country's cybersecurity labels for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, aimed at helping consumers assess the level of security in such products. Touting it as the first of such bilateral recognition, Singapore says the partnership aims to reduce the need for duplicated testing. 
The global pandemic had accelerated the pace of digitalization as well as surfaced many uncertainties and challenges, driving governments and businesses to drive their digital transformation, said Singapore's Senior Minister of State for the Ministry of Communications and Information, Janil Puthucheary.
Dependence on IoT had increased as nations looked to transform into smart cities, fueled by the need for connectivity and to tap data, said Puthucheary, who was speaking Wednesday at the Singapore International Cyber Week conference. He noted that the number of connected devices worldwide was projected to double to 50 billion devices in 2030, compared to 2018. 
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-inks-pact-with-finland-to-mutually-recognise-iot-security-labels/

After a powerful presentation from CTO Steve Shadders on day one of the conference, nChain was back on hand for day two with an equally powerful message: Kensei is the gateway to Bitcoin.
nChain’s Director of Marketing and Director of Product & Solution Strategy, Dominic Duffy and Andy Mee, gave an in-depth talk about the company’s enterprise blockchain platform Kensei, which gives enterprises the ability to take advantage of the blockchain and all of the power that comes with it without needing deep technical knowledge or dedicated teams.
One of the platform’s key selling points is its powerful APIs which allow seamless integration between user companies’ existing data management processes and the BSV blockchain.
The talk was started with a brief rundown of nChain, the company behind Kensei. nChain builds the infrastructure of the BSV blockchain, and in Duffy’s words, “champions of the BSV blockchain and the people who want to build on it.”
“The truth is, we simple can’t trust the data we rely upon. It’s not conjecture. We know this, partly because at nChain, we commissioned Frost & Sullivan to carry out research on our behalf, and that research was to determine the level with which those in charge of data integrity trust the data they interact with,” he said.
Continue reading: https://coingeek.com/kensei-by-nchain-is-the-gateway-to-definitive-blockchain/

Recently, Inery Blockchain (supported by 'FINTECH VENTURE AG & LTD') has released its decentralized storage and database solution. A new blockchain is being launched known as INERY -- a Switzerland-based project that is built to help secure data with the power of Blockchain technology. Inery is being supported by Fintech Ventures, and it is crucial to note that they have recognized great potential in the Inery Blockchain and they’re supporting its unique idea on which this project is built for decentralization. More so, with long experience in finance, technology, especially DeFi, Fintech Venture sees a good long-term cooperation with the Inery Blockchain project. Inery blockchain enables all users to analyze, store, and transmit data locally from a server and remotely by API services. Most blockchains and databases don't address the user's data's low latency, security, and privacy, but Inery presents a distributed database whose blockchain utilizes blockchain to decentralize data while assuring safety and reducing data breaches.
Therefore, it is not wrong to say that Inery is an ideal solution for many businesses around the globe that want to benefit from decentralized blockchain technology. Unlike its competitors, Inery eliminates the issues many blockchains have to deal with to this day.
The Inery blockchain
Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger with a growing list of immutable records, called blocks, cryptographically linked across the nodes. Each block carries a cryptographic hash of the previous block as well as transaction data. Blocks have specific storage capacities and, when filled, are chained onto the previously served block, forming a chain of data known as a blockchain. Blockchains are decentralized, secure, immutable, and extremely fault tolerant making them suitable for record management activities, i.e., financial transactions, identity management, provenance, and authentication.
Continue reading: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inery-blockchain-releases-decentralized-storage-051900350.html

As higher education shifted online through the global pandemic, issues of trust, identity and fraud crippled learning and research. Blockchain technology has emerged as a potential solution to these long-standing problems and might even offer opportunities for novel and emerging use cases. However, despite being an important driver for the blockchain industry, universities have failed to realize the potential of blockchain technology for their own use.
To better understand how blockchain and innovative EdTech companies might disrupt this trillion dollar industry, through 2021, I led a team of students who surveyed the market, looked at potential use cases and separated reality from hyperbole. In our comprehensive report, we discuss many compelling use cases but found few serious players. With the exception of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), top tier universities remain conservative, neither embracing the educational and research opportunities brought about by blockchain nor utilizing the technology to better serve their student, faculty and social stakeholders.
Continue reading: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/universities-flunking-blockchain-tech-174114179.html

International trade finance, beset by the same “paper chase” that is a hallmark of B2B transactions, could use a digital facelift.
After all, in activities that cross borders, time zones and currencies, transparency is lacking, it takes days to settle transactions and there are fees involved. When commerce becomes international in scope, complexity reigns. In a bid to simplify things, advanced technologies such as blockchain can address those pain points, particularly where working capital is involved.
To that end, as reported this week, BNY Mellon, through the Marco Polo Network, has joined a group aiming to bring blockchain to international trade finance. The Marco Polo Network is a cloud-based collective of more than 30 financial institutions (FIs), tested by more than 20 corporates that have built, and are building, a platform to offer trade and working capital financing to FIs and enterprises. Within that platform, blockchain can help speed up transactions and enable the real-time delivery of working capital, once buyers and suppliers agree to terms.
Continue reading: https://www.pymnts.com/blockchain/2021/blockchain-and-cloud-alleviate-trade-finance-pain-points/

What Is An IoT SIM Card?
An IoT/M2M SIM card is a variation of traditional SIM cards used in personal mobile devices like smartphones with additional features designed for IoT devices. This includes things like being more durable, secure, and flexible.
SIM cards work by establishing a connection to your host network and transferring data between your device and the rest of your IoT platform. While you could technically use traditional SIM cards for this purpose, it’s not recommended as they are not equipped to meet the needs of most IoT projects.
IoT devices have unique needs from other smart devices like phones and tablets. They need to be able to maintain a secure connection at nearly all times, survive in harsher conditions, and meet the specific needs of your IoT project’s goals.
Continue reading: https://www.iotforall.com/everything-to-know-about-iot-sims

Connected devices autopilot our cars; control our home's light, heat and security; and shop for us. Wearables monitor our heart rates and oxygen levels, tell us when to get up and how to move about and keep detailed logs on our whereabouts. Smart cities, powered by a host of IoT devices and applications, control the lives of millions of people around the globe by directing traffic, sanitation, public administration and security. IoT's reach and influence in our everyday lives would be inconceivable without algorithms, but how much do we know about algorithmic function, logic and security?
Most algorithms operate at computational speeds and complexities that prevent effective human review. They work in a black box. On top of that, most IoT application algorithms are proprietary and operate in a double black box. This status quo may be acceptable if the outcomes are positive, and the algorithms do no harm. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
When black box algorithms go wrong and do material, physical, societal or economic harm, they also hurt the IoT movement. Such mistakes chip away at the social and political trust that the industry needs to ensure the wider adoption of smart devices, which is key to moving the field forward.
Continue reading: https://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/post/Why-IoT-should-become-the-internet-of-transparency