The Power of Edge AI Technologies for Real‐Time Use Cases in the Oil and Gas Domain

Empowering IoT edge devices with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) models and frameworks is being seen as a game‐changing proposition. Such an innovation has laid down a stimulating platform for sophisticated services and applications to be visualized and realized readily and rewardingly. Business behemoths, start‐ups, and ordinary people will get advanced empowerment and entitlement in the form of service‐oriented, event‐driven, knowledge‐filled, real‐time, and real‐world applications. Context‐aware and competent services will be dynamically designed and delivered to the right person, at the right place, and at the right time in an unambiguous fashion. Smarter environments such as smarter homes, hotels, and hospitals will become the new normal. Intelligence will be everywhere all the time. In short, everything will become smart, every device will become smarter, and every human being will become the smartest. Multiple devices collaborate, correlate, and corroborate to understand the needs of people correctly to prepare and pamper them with scores of cognitive services. Edge AI is being touted as the way forward for ambient intelligence, pervasive computing, ubiquitous sensing and perception, adaptive communication, etc. This chapter aims to enlighten our readers on how the strategically sound idea of edge AI and how various industries get emboldened through the power of edge AI.