Category: Internet of Things

Inspecting five million vehicle welds every day requires the ability to check a weld’s quality every 17 milliseconds—an impossible challenge for a human. This type of quality control task is just one of many where the combined technologies of computer vision and AI excel. Cameras, microphones, and a wide array of sophisticated sensors used in […]

Today, we are announcing that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021. We believe this report truly reflects the market momentum of Azure Stream Analytics, satisfied customers, a growing partner ecosystem, and the overall strength of our Azure cloud platform. Take a look at the Forrester Wave™: Streaming […]

As industries around the world accelerate their digital transformation to reduce operational expenses, create new service offerings, and achieve sustainability goals, industrial IoT platforms are playing a foundational role. Microsoft is deeply committed to helping the world’s industries achieve these goals and for many years we have invested in capabilities to empower this, including our […]

A major milestone towards making confidential computing in IoT mainstream for privacy and safety. In collaboration with Arm® Technologies and Scalys BV, we are announcing the immediate availability of the Enclave Device Blueprint to help towards making confidential computing a mainstream computing paradigm at the edge. The exponential growth in intelligent processing at the edge […]

In June 2021, Microsoft and AT&T reached a major milestone when we announced an industry-first collaboration to evolve Microsoft’s hybrid cloud technology to support AT&T’s 5G core network workloads. Since then, we have had requests from many operators, partners, and customers to share more details. This blog is intended to do just that. An eye […]

The Asia-Pacific region has long been a strong manufacturing base and the sector continues to be a strong adopter of the Internet of Things (IoT). But as the latest Microsoft IoT Signals report shows, IoT is now much more widely adopted across verticals, and across the globe, with smart spaces—a key focus for many markets […]

The convergence of HPC+AI has opened new pathways for companies and developers worldwide to develop innovative, transformative applications. While this presents a plethora of new business opportunities in fields like academic research, climate modeling, and energy sustainability, they also push the boundaries of compute, data, and process capabilities of the underlying infrastructure so they can […]