Today ABC Solar Incorporated submitted its team and formulas for adding artificial intelligence Tools of Perception to its cloud solar business operating system to the DARPA Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) challenge. The goal of the DARPA PTG bid is "an assistant that sees what you see, hears what you hear, knows your tasks, and knows you. It answers your questions, warns if you make a mistake, and walks you through unfamiliar procedures. Oh, and it lowers – not raises – your cognitive load."
Lowering your cognitive load for ABC Solar is the continual reduction of keystrokes necessary to complete a job and run the company. Bradley Bartz founded ABC Solar in 2000 while on the board of his Japanese internet company that started the bubble in 1990. Bartz left building websites for Coca-Cola, Citibank and Budweiser and began using all technical skill for internal use only at ABC Solar. The DARPA PTG challenge aligns with ABC Solar's efforts and team is already working on pieces of what Bartz calls the Remote-Control Human project.
The DARPA vision is Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance – Enable mechanic, medics, and other specialists to perform tasks within and beyond their skillsets by providing just-in-time feedback and instructions for physical tasks.
The military has solar grid tie and off grid systems deployed at every base in some form. The impact of the ABC Solar Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (Solar PTG) success will be immediate Force Multiplier for servicing vital energy systems. The commercial applications for the Solar PTG are enlightening for the solar industry.
"While Musk goes to Mars, Bartz will fix his solar installs here," Chuckled Bartz.
There are millions of electrical generating inverters and soon hundreds of millions, that need maintenance and repair. ABC Solar is repeatedly called to service grid-tie inverters installed by other companies that are no longer in business.
Fixing grid-tie inverters sounds easy, but it is dangerous, and the work can kill you. Personally, Bartz has had a grid-tie inverter blow up in his face when a manufacturer used a remote firmware upgrade. A key goal for ABC Solar is to greatly limit risk to personnel by rigorous task management and safety checklists that get backfilled with sensor data.
In the case of grid-tie inverter repair the Solar PTG wearable vest will have volt and amperage leads that report in real-time data to the expert's dashboard and displays local for tech. Additional thermal camera and AI pattern recognition on the wearable will help determine the health of an inverter.
In addition, it will report on wire size used, connections and other areas not readily seen by the tech. The Solar PTG will create the majority of the incident report that lends to better retention and knowledge transfer. The Solar PTG will get smarter when new troubleshooting paths are found.
The Solar PTG is powered by Dr. Rajiv Trehan and his Voiceii.com artificial intelligence tools based on using sound for determining human intent. For our inverter technician it is poised to listen for hesitation and offer tips and task management steps.
Dr. Amarjot Singh built Skylark Labs AI on image processing for bringing light to dark images and movement modeling and tracking. These tools model our ABC Solar inverter experts and creates institutional memory that can be taught to new team members.
IOT Sensors are processed with the no-programming interface from SmartConnect Inc and its Edge IOT Sensor Data Capture and Control dashboard. The IOT Gateway for Unified Management – smartconnectinc.com is giving email to sensors that feed a sensor dashboard for management decisions, exception alerts and device control. The Solar PTG is tasked with using commercial-off-the-shelf and "cheap" sensors to achieve and become Tools of Perception.
Ganz Security provides graphical processing AI systems with edge, servers, cloud, cameras and specialty lenses. The 96-year-old Japanese firm helps guide the Solar PTG team from product development to commercialization. The Ganz commercial-off-the-shelf hardware is being used as a platform to integrate the AI Tools of Perception and Sensor control methodologies for the Solar PTG.
HTMLDB founder Dan Falzetti should be called Mr. Cloud, but he prefers his software handle of "Professor Marvel". The utterly mundane task of data management for business processes is rewarded by the mass reduction of keystrokes that brings smiles to users. Falzetti APIs do more than transport sensor data it brings it to management to reach goals faster. ABC Solar has been continually developing its Solar Business Operating System with Falzetti and inhouse. Mr. Cloud is on our DARPA team and that means data will flow.
ABC Solar founder Bartz is so impressed with the Solar PTG tools that his think tank business The Daily Network LLC is building an Artificial Intelligence and Industrial IOT Systems Integration business called Form Power. The Solar PTG project home and your new AI project is at FormPower.com. Form Power by using Tools of Perception, edge and cloud resources to extend the reach of each tech in the field. Form Power will answer more AI RFPs and is ready to offer solutions to industry. The Solar PTG will be sold by The Daily Network to stakeholders in the solar industry electrical grid tie inverter repair and maintenance space.
The DARPA Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance has two bid tracks. Six teams are going to make Cooking PTGs. ABC Solar has chosen the military use case. This track allows integrating tools from the Cooking PTG teams. Simply put the collaborative approach by DARPA will yield new and exciting methods for the use of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and an overload of sensors. The DAPRA PTG will see, hear and feel more than humans can and translate that information stream to assist in safe and efficient tasking.
It was a hard choice for the ABC Solar team because Dr. Trehan is a hobbyist chef and his interpretation of the Cooking PTG cast new light on solutions. The ABC Solar AI team considered submitting both bids to DARPA. The overall realization is the Tools of Perception and our Expert to Task Mastery system can be ported to virtually any field. Besides Dr. Trehan's passion, our team recruited celebrity nutritionist Robin Miller to be our cooking expert to be modeled by our AI and to become our projection of an augmented reality AI teaching chef. Ms. Miller brings powerful descriptions as she is cooking that reinforces AI training for movement, pattern matching, voice, emotion, task awareness and the yum results.
Two bids, one document? Yes, using non-artificial intelligence to perceive a better chance.
ABC Solar has been designing and installing solar electric grid-tie systems since 2000. We design our systems based on the best available solar and inverter technology. Each site requires attention to detail to maximize solar power and potential. ABC Solar also provides repair services for non-company-installed projects.
TDN is a think tank environment for an Artificial Intelligence edge IOT system integration with focus on legacy and new sensor data control on dashboards for management alerts and action.
Our SmartConnect Gateway deploys as a SaaS or licensed based solution, easily connects any legacy or IP-ready device or industrial equipment and enables the secure access and capture of data into a customer's analytics platform of choice. The gateway delivers real-time, browser-based visualization of data to workstations, tablets, and smartphones without requiring any programming or replacing legacy hardware.
VOICEii In-house AI Core Technologies are under constant innovation and engineering to develop and fine-tune AI Voice for multiple multilingual solutions.
SkyLark Labs develops Artificial intelligence to solve the world's most challenging safety and security challenges. Our systems can perform real-time image and video analytics to assess, alert, and avert.
Robin Miller has been a TV personality, food writer, and nutritionist since 1990 and she is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestseller, Quick Fix Meals. Her popular show, Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller, aired on Food Network for 5 years. Robin ranks in the top three of famous nutritionists worldwide.
Ganz Security by CBC is a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of world-class security solutions. The Ganz brand offers integrated system architecture across multiple market segments including IP and analog cameras, performance-driven optics, intelligent video analytics, biometric access systems, discreet enclosures, video management software, and recording devices.
The HTMLDB team has extensive experience in rapid application development over a broad range of industries as well as countless data integration projects across all Oracle Application modules and versions from the last 25 years.
