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How AI can impact Maritime Logistics?

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How AI can impact Maritime Logistics?

Investing in communication technologies has provided several benefits for shipping firms. Most ships have grown into remote offices at sea, providing the captain and crew with dependable Internet connectivity, virtual networks, email, route planners, and a variety of other technologies and applications. Further investing in innovative technologies can enhance regular vessel operations while also lowering corporate expenses and optimizing business processes.

Machine Learning enables users to use sophisticated algorithms and analyze data, which aids in guiding the logic of potential issues in marine transportation. These approaches may be used for maritime network design, trip planning, cargo optimization, maintenance processes, and other areas.

Machine learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence, relies on working with small to large datasets by examining and comparing the data to find common patterns and explore nuances. It enables the use of intelligent algorithms and the evaluation of data, which aids in guiding the logic of potential issues in marine transport. These algorithms may be applied to maritime network design, trip planning, cargo optimization, and other applications.

The intelligence of ML algorithms, combined with industry knowledge, has the potential to provide a significant advantage to shipping companies that first adopt them in their operations. The bigger the investment in AI/ML, the more advantage from their big data analysis capabilities as ML algorithms can handle data from the whole history of a vessel’s operation.

Advanced Machine Learning algorithms will be capable of enhancing trip optimization, such as fuel economy, crew performance, voyage cost estimates, calculating the ideal route in a minute, and providing advice on speed, course, and so on. ML algorithms, for example, may be used to estimate fuel usage based on engine data and vessel parameters. These algorithms enable the transformation of massive amounts of noisy sensor data and other onshore data into organized information that may be used to anticipate fuel usage and map ideal paths for boats.

As data is a critical component for removing uncertainty, adopting ML algorithms can assist to boost the usual data that might be critical for shipowners. Data mining in the marine industry has been quite restricted thus far. As a result, as compared to other industries, the deployment of ML approaches in marine transport is restricted. Taking this into consideration, our innovators have created solutions incorporating edge platforms, machine learning models, onboard sensors, and application software. We have solutions for Predictive Scheduling, Container Positioning Organization, Voyage Planning and Route Forecasting, Fuel Consumption Optimization, and Predictive Maintenance.

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Federated Learning for Medical Research

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Federated Learning for Medical Research

Federated Learning (FL), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) have emerged as the most popular and fascinating technologies in the intelligent healthcare industry.

The traditional healthcare system is centered on centralized agents providing raw data. As a result, this system still has significant risks and problems. When combined with AI, the system would consist of several agent collaborators capable of successfully connecting with their intended host.

Federated Learning, a novel distributed interactive AI paradigm, holds promise for smart healthcare since it allows several clients (such as hospitals) to engage in AI training while ensuring data privacy. FL’s noteworthy characteristic is that operates decentralized; it maintains communication based on a model in the selected system without exchanging raw data.

The combination of FL, AI, and XAI approaches has the potential to reduce the number of restrictions and issues in the healthcare system. As a consequence, the use of FL in smart healthcare might speed up medical research using AI while maintaining privacy.

The Federated Learning approach may be used to provide several enticing benefits in the development of smart healthcare. Local data, for example, are not necessary for training. To train other machine learning algorithms by mixing a large number of local datasets without transmitting data. During training, local Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on local heterogeneous datasets.

When opposed to traditional centralized learning, FL is also capable of delivering a good balance of precision and utility, as well as privacy enhancement. FL may also help to reduce communication costs, such as data latency and power transmission, connected with raw data transfer by avoiding the dumping of huge data quantities to the server.

We have solutions that use FL to link life science enterprises with world-class university academics and hospitals in order to exchange deep medical insights for drug discovery and development. The platform enables its partners to uncover siloed datasets while maintaining patient privacy and securing proprietary data by leveraging federated learning and cutting-edge collaborative AI technologies. This enables unprecedented cooperation to enhance patient outcomes by sharing high-value knowledge.

The platform has built a worldwide research network driven by federated learning, allowing data scientists to securely connect to decentralized, multi-party data sets and train AI models without the need for data pooling. When combined with fields of medicine specializing in diagnosis and treatment, scientists may use cutting-edge technology platforms to build potentially life-changing drugs for people all over the world.

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Computer Vision for Quality Inspection

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Computer Vision for Quality Inspection

In manufacturing sector whether it is clothing and textiles, petroleum, chemicals and plastics, electronics, computers and transportation, food production, metal manufacturing etc, poor production quality has a significant impact on efficiency. It results in additional operational and financial costs in form of lost time, wasted resources, scraps and decreased efficiency. Therefore, maintaining quality standards is of utmost importance in the field of manufacturing.

Typically product is visually inspected for defects which is a highly manual process. It is time consuming, prone to errors and dependent on operator’s experience and requires consistency which is not always possible.  Rule-based visual inspection machines which are programmed, are not flexible, and cannot adapt to product changes and can only detect a handful of defects at a time.

By using computer vision in manufacturing quality inspection can be automated during the production process.  There are several advantages of using computer vision like reduced cognitive load for operators, no programming required, and it adapts to product changes. It also makes inspections faster, more accurate, and efficient. There are today several manufacturing firms that are shifting towards using deep learning and computer vision for quality control and inspection tasks. 

Computer Vision:

Computer vision seeks to replicate and automate tasks that the human visual system can do. It is an interdisciplinary scientific field that aims to give computers the ability to extract a high-level understanding of the visual world from digital images and videos. It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning models to enable machines accurately identify, interpret, understand, classify and react to objects in form of visual data like digital images from cameras and videos.

More sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI)–based vision systems can enable more powerful visual inspection solutions. These solutions can handle complex applications with less engineering time compared to traditional machine vision solutions.

These systems are faster and simpler process that can carry out repetitive and monotonous tasks at a faster rate, which simplifies the work for humans. Computer vision systems better trained through all kinds of data generally commit zero mistakes resulting in faster delivery of high-quality products and services. With no room for faulty products and services, companies do not have to spend money on fixing their flawed processes.

By using a laser coupled with a 2D camera, object edges can be more easily located and “pseudo 3D” images can be produced. These 3D machine vision systems creates a full 3D profile of the object by stitching together the individual lines of image data that makes inspection of complex assemblies and sub-assemblies as well as individual components easier.

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