How Artificial Intelligence Can Add Value To Your Personal Life And Business Posted on : Aug 05 - 2020

In many of the conversations with our (potential) customers, we discuss the power of artificial intelligence. In many publications the usage of AI is almost promoted as "the land of milk and honey" — but those with a bit of experience will be able to tell you that using AI is not always the answer, and it's not as easy to implement as many try to make you believe. But with the right use-cases defined, it can help your company — or you as a person — make life easier or create specific added value.

I'd like to tell you about how AI improved my personal life in five examples. With each of the examples, I will refer to a business or use-case that could be of value to you.

1. Home Security

As the company I hired to clean my apartment sent different cleaners, each with a different level of quality, I got interested in measuring the quality of labor according to my standards. By using an intelligent door-camera, which could recognize which cleaner had visited my place with facial recognition, I was able to define my favorite cleaner and improve my cooperation with the company.

Facial recognition can be used for physical two-factor-authentication in buildings or on construction sites — an RFID-badge can be cloned or stolen — and a commodity AI-based entrance camera enhances the security.

2. My Photo Library

Since the majority of us are taking pictures with digital cameras and mobile phones, the number of pictures in our library has increased significantly. Finding a specific photo has become a more difficult task. By storing and indexing my photos with an AI-based solution, I simply have to give one or more keywords to find my pictures. "car, France, house" gives a picture of my car parked in front of our summerhouse in southern France.

Finding sensitive data in different kinds of documents or code repositories would be a manual nightmare. Using AI to scan and classify the documents as "clean," "test" or "real" could help you reach regulatory compliance in a faster and easier way.

3. Travel

Long road trips can result in fatigue, and with that, the raised risk of not staying in your lane. Many modern cars have supportive on-board systems that will read the speed limit signs, help the car track in a straight line or even help with active steering on motorways. In the recent past, these systems were based on radar or lidar. Nowadays, AI-based camera systems support the driver.

In heavily congested warehouses, cameras could avoid collisions between forklifts, or even support the driver to turn or stop the truck preventing hitting the high-selves. View More