Ep 21: Edge AI: Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Computing at The Industrial Edge - Angelo Corsaro (CEO & CTO - ZettaScale Technology )

By now, It's no longer up for debate whether artificial intelligence will permeate the industrial automation space as much as it has the commercial sector.

The biggest challenge, I'd imagine, is how do we build a robust enough nervous system that brings data to the AI agents at the industrial edge for processing, with unlimited horizontal scale.

To understand in-depth how that could work, I invited Angelo Corsaro for a chat.

Angelo is CEO and CTO at ZettaScale Technology, a company working to bring to every connected human and machine the unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute and store anywhere, at any scale, efficiently and securely.

Up until recently, Angelo was CTO at ADLINK Technology, a company that provides edge software and hardware for building and deploying Edge AI solutions, and it is from ADLINK where ZettaScale was "spinned-off".

Further, Angelo was one of the original members of the Data Distribution Service connectivity standard at the Object Management Group, where he was also a Member Board of Directors.

Below is the outline of our conversation to the linked video

Outline

 Edge Computing as a Cloud-to-device continuum
 Benefits of intelligent edge computing in Industrial Automation
 Example Applications of AI at the Industrial Edge
 Challenges in building and deploying Intelligence at the Industrial Edge
 Edge AI Architecture for implementation in Manufacturing
 Approach for Big-Data Driven Edge-Cloud Collaboration in Industrial facilities
 High-Performance Real-Time Communication at the Edge using Eclipse Zenoh and Cyclone DDS OS Projects
 Integration of Eclipse Zenoh with MQTT
 ZettaScale, what it is, why it exists, and key concepts
 Security Threats and Countermeasures in Edge Computing for IIoT Architects
 The Role of 5G in Industrial Edge AI
 ZettaScale team and vision for the future of building industrial systems