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New IoT lab for Munich
Microsoft is setting up an IoT & AI Insider Lab in Munich. Interested companies can now apply to accelerate their projects in the field of IoT and artificial intelligence.
Microsoft's IoT and AI Insider Labs are designed to provide access and the facilities to develop, prototype and test solutions for the intended market.
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Sabine Bendiek, Chairwoman of the Management Board at Microsoft Germany: "With our lab, we are pursuing a holistic approach to support projects from idea generation to prototype development and market launch."
© MicrosoftAfter Redmond (USA) and Shenzhen (China),Microsoft is setting up another IoT & AI Insider Lab in Munich. The Munich lab is intended to offer companies a productive environment to drive forward projects in the field of IoT and AI (artificial intelligence): "Projects from the labs in Shenzhen and Redmond show that customers achieve results in just three weeks in the lab that would have taken them four to six months on their own," says Cyra Richardson, General Manager IoT Business Development, Microsoft Corp and responsible for the labs.
Software and hardware are available free of charge in the lab: The software offering ranges from the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform to IoT and AI technologies such as the Azure IoT Suite (networking, monitoring and control of devices), the embedded operating system Windows 10 IoT Core, the Cognitive Services (for example voice, text, image, emotion recognition) and the Cortana Intelligence Suite (services for Big Data applications as well as machine learning). The lab's machine room offers equipment for milling, automated pick-and-place, 3D printing and micro production (nano printers), among other things. Interested corporate customers can now apply to use the IoT & AI Insider Lab.
Stefan Hoppe, Vice President OPC Foundation: "Microsoft's open source integration of OPC UA can run on devices with Windows, Linux, iOS or Android. In combination with Microsoft Azure IoT and Windows IoT, this enables companies to securely bring devices and apps into the cloud and control them centrally."
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Customers are not only supported by a dedicated lab team with experts in cloud computing, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence and embedded systems. Microsoft developers for Azure IoT, embedded devices and AI are also based in Munich and are on hand to provide help and advice. There is also a lively exchange between the three labs and their experts so that European customers, for example, can benefit from the expertise and experience from Redmond. Users of the IoT & AI Insider Labs will also benefit from the Microsoft partner network. The first official partners of the Munich lab include Cisco and the independent OPC Foundation, which promotes the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standard for interoperability set for Industry 4.0. Cisco is also contributing its IoT offering to the Microsoft Lab.
The lab is located in Munich-Lehel. In addition to the newly opened headquarters in Munich-Schwabing, Munich-Lehel is also home to various Microsoft research and development teams, including AI & Research, Windows and Devices and Azure IoT.
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