Since the Industrial Revolution, asset-intensive organizations engaged in a systematic "pen and paper" approach to inspect, evaluate, and diagnose equipment, machinery, and infrastructure to identify potential issues, assess severity, and recommend appropriate actions.

Bringing all the different elements together for an AI-based hardware platform is harder than it sounds, especially when you start considering the environmental conditions. Getting it to work in the lab is one thing, but the real world presents challenges you may not have thought of.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Combine that with the huge amount of video that’s being captured. When you put these two phenomena together, you can (potentially) do some great things.