Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced internet of things (IoT) connectivity, has announced three new services designed to help IoT deployments take advantage of the power and promise of generative AI (GenAI). These new services, named Soracom Query, Soracom Relay, and Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence, can work together or separately to analyse IoT device data on the fly or connect devices to the AI (artificial intelligence) /ML (machine learning) capabilities now available through hyperscale platforms.
Soracom Relay lets customers use any existing RTSP (real time streaming protocol) / RTP (real-time transport protocol) compatible camera to acquire and securely transmit audio and video data to Soracom’s Harvest Files for storage or to a cloud destination, such as AWS S3 or Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, for computer vision and video analytics. Soracom Query lets customers use SQL queries from BI (business intelligence) tools or CLI (command-line interface) to mine IoT device data with no need to set up their own servers or storage. This managed data warehouse capability with automatic data loading to run complex analytical queries on large IoT datasets and feed the results to ML projects. Both services are now available in technical preview to interested Soracom customers.
Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence, now available in public beta, enhances Soracom’s existing serverless data storage and visualisation capability with the ability to apply GenAI to analyse time series data and identify trends, patterns, outliers, and abnormalities. Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence can also use the data provided to perform further analysis. For example, a municipality can use Soracom Relay to monitor road traffic while Harvest Data Intelligence analyses the data stored and Soracom Query can guide decisions on the best times
to schedule road repairs, or to predict how changes in traffic patterns will impact existing infrastructure.
“Applying GenAI to analyse IoT data has the potential to discover insights that are beyond our imagination,” says Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and co-founder of Soracom. “As a technology partner to the companies building tomorrow’s connected experiences, we’re committed to delivering leading-edge capabilities that accelerate their innovation and help them to succeed at scale and stay one step ahead in a changing world.”
In keeping with that commitment, Soracom has also established an IoT x GenAI Lab with Matsuo Institute, Inc., which conducts research and development projects in AI sharing the vision of Matsuo Lab, University of Tokyo. The IoT x GenAI Lab will explore the potential to gain new insights from diverse IoT data using Gen AI, develop new products, and provide professional services in the area of generative AI, including IoT and large language models (LLMs).
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