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Editor's Notes

• #34: While there are a lot of interesting IoT scenarios unfolding in the consumer space, based on our experience in working with customers and partners we see the majority of IoT value being enabled in the commercial space. This is backed by a recently released McKinsey report that states that 70% of the value enabled by IoT will come from B2B scenarios. Whether its Rockwell Automation that is helping its oil and gas customers improve efficiency by monitoring supply chain assets, or ThyssenKrupp elevators that is doing predictive maintenance on elevators to prevent unscheduled downtime for their customers, or the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) that is using IoT to continuously monitor various sensors of the linear accelerator to anticipate problems, take action and prevent failure; organization of all types are starting to harness the value of IoT to transform themselves. Of course, as a solution provider you could very well be working with a customer that's creating a consumer product, let's say a car manufacturer. However, the value you'll be providing in this B2B2C scenario is helping that organization build an enterprise grade IoT solution so they can launch their products. Our focus here is simply to enable build enterprise grade internet of their things solutions for your customers. Our goal is to provide you the best platform to do this.
• #35: Cognitive services span Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search. Combining many of these services together can either improve user interaction models, or provide fun and engaging user experiences. Our examples here shine some light on how some of these APIs work in real-world situations: Vision The Computer Vision API is able to extract rich information from images to categorize and process visual data and protect your users from unwanted content. Here, the API is able to tell us what the photo contains, indicate the most common colors, and lets us know that the content would not be considered inappropriate for users. Speech The Bing Speech API is capable of converting audio to text, understanding intent, and converting text back to speech for natural responsiveness. This case shows us that the user has asked for directions verbally, the intent has been extracted, and a map with directions provided. Language: Language Understanding Intelligent Service, known as LUIS, can be trained to understand user language contextually, so your app communicates with people in the way they speak. The example we see here demonstrates Language Understanding’s ability to understand what a person wants, and to find the pieces of information that are relevant to the user’s intent. Knowledge Knowledge Exploration Service adds interactive search over structured data to reduce user effort and increase efficiency. Our Knowledge Exploration API example here demonstrates the usefulness of this API for answering questions posed in natural language in an interactive experience. Search Bing Image Search API enables you to add a variety of image search options to your app or website, from trending images to detailed insights. Users can do a simple search, and this API scours the web for thumbnails, full image URLs, publishing website info, image metadata, and more before returning results.