Last week the IEEE Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) conference took place virtually, an event that seeks original ideas in the field of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. I had the opportunity to present a paper on Artificial Intelligence applied to IoT and how it influences different areas.

The need for progress, the increasing processing power and the low cost of the cloud have facilitated the development of new and powerful algorithms. The efficiency of these algorithms in the processing of Big Data, Deep Learning and Convolutional Networks is transforming the way we work and it is opening up new horizons. Thanks to them, we can now analyze data and obtain incredible solutions to today’s problems.

To address today’s problems, we must work with historical and real-time data. We must fully understand the problem, its temporal evolution, as well as the relevance and implications of each piece of data. It is also important to consider the development time, costs and the ability to create systems that interact with their environment, connect with the objects around them and reliably manage the data they obtain.

Also, complementary technologies such as IoT and Blockchain are important in the development of intelligent systems. During the lecture I explained how tools such as Deep Intelligence-Deepint.net, a solution developed by DCSc and BISITE, allows to create computer systems efficiently and effectively.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.