Decentralisation of Everything Before the “invention” of Societies all of humanity lived a decentralised life. The invention of societies and its early manifestation with religion and military organisations led to centralisation. Someone was in charge, orders where given centrally and communicated, then monitored for execution. The crucial enabler was, and …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers VI
Progressive automation of existing infrastructures Over the years and decades we have been leveraging on computer to monitor infrastructures, analyse operation and performance data and take corrective actions. As infrastructure components have become more and more flexible (computerised, smart, accessible, reconfigurable) we have gain the power to make more and …
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Although I am not a fan of drones (yes I have one, I received it as a present and got some fun playing with it) I keep following their evolution because they are an example of an amazingly fast emerging market that spun off out of military research and transformed …
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If you want to see what an autonomous system can be don’t look any further than the new Roomba. Its model S9+ has all the defining characteristics of an autonomous, smart, system. I have been impressed by Roomba from its very first “edition” back in 2002. I should say I …
Read More »Autonomous Systems in Finance
Finance is, today, a business in the cyberspace. Autonomous Agents –AA- and Artificial Intelligence have already changed the landscape and will further change it in the next decade. Kensho’s Artificial Intelligence Investment Analyses platform has been acquired by S&P for 550 million $, the largest price tag on an artificial …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies available today for Extreme Automation
Automation has becoming more and more sophisticated, it basically started with the Industrial Revolution with tools carrying out part of the workers activities, and it really boomed with computers. Now it is progressing even faster under three main enabling (broad) technology areas: sensors, actuators and artificial intelligence. The disruptive technologies …
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I remember, it was a long time ago, the discussion on the advantage of going digital in sound coding (and then reproduction) and we actually ended up with digital winning hands down in all the music sector. Still a number of people resisted the idea claiming that analogue remained better …
Read More »Tech for Autonomous Systems – Autonomous Decision Taking Capabilities II
Complex Systems Technologies Symbiotic Autonomous Systems are complex systems since they are the result of several interplaying factors and change their behaviour to adapt to changes in their environment. A single bacteria is a (very) complex system, current artificial autonomous systems are way less “complex” than a bacteria but still …
Read More »Tech for Autonomous Systems – Advanced Interaction Capabilities V
Communications technologies – part 2 In explicit communications there are a number of parties involved and they establish a sort of handshake providing feedback on the reception and possibly further information to steer the evolution of behaviour of the parties involved. Although explicit communications is not characterising autonomous systems it …
Read More »Tech for Autonomous Systems – Advanced Interaction Capabilities IV
Communications technologies – part 1 The increase in processing capacity has made possible to manage multiple communications channels. This is reaching a maturity with terminal devices (systems) able to manage a broad spectrum of frequencies at the same time and make autonomous decisions on which to use that will be …
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