In 2022, our homes and buildings will become better assistants and more attentive companions to truly help with our most human needs.
The greatest impact in the next few years will be with the elderly.
This is an excerpt of the publication below
Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond”
AWS
November 2021
Edited by Joaquim Cardoso MSc.
AI Digital Health Platform — Institute
March 28, 2022
Introduction
We have reached an inflection point. After AWS pioneered cloud technology more than 15 years ago, cloud infrastructure has evolved to a place where we are seeing all parts of the cloud reach practically anywhere on the planet — and even into space.
The cloud has allowed what was once science fiction to become science fact. Models and techniques in the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) realm have gotten better and better — so much so that we see glimpses of new kinds of use cases emerging that we previously only imagined in movies and comics.
The cloud has allowed what was once science fiction to become science fact. Models and techniques in the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) realm have gotten better and better
We are entering a phase where data is abundant, access to it is almost instantaneous, and our ability to make sense of it in new and subtle ways is practically automatic.
We are entering a phase where data is abundant, access to it is almost instantaneous, and our ability to make sense of it in new and subtle ways is practically automatic.
But this technology is not replacing humans; it is augmenting how we engage with the world.
2022 will be an exciting year for technology, with it pushing all of us, and our planet, forward in the process.
Summary of the predictions:
- AI-supported software development takes hold
Software development is a creative process, but one that has many repetitive tasks. In 2022, ML will begin to play a major role in augmenting software developers’ workstreams, helping them create more secure and reliable code.
2.The everywhere cloud has an edge
The cloud will extend into every locale via purpose-built devices and specialized solutions. In 2022, we’ll see these solutions bring all the muscle of the cloud to transform warehouses, restaurants, retail stores, farms, and more.
3.The rise of smart spaces, especially in senior care
In 2022, our homes and buildings will become better assistants and more attentive companions to truly help with our most human needs. The greatest impact in the next few years will be with the elderly.
4.Sustainability gets its own architecture
In 2022, developers will begin to make sustainability-conscious decisions about the systems and applications they are building. They will seek new approaches to cloud architectures that optimize for the needs of the planet as well as the needs of end users.
5.A new wave of connectivity will bring about a new class of applications
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are set to bring affordable broadband to every corner of the planet. This will change the lives of billions of people as teachers, students, small businesses, and virtually anyone gets online.
Below you find a detail excerpt of point 3.
3.The rise of smart spaces, especially in senior care
In 2022, our homes and buildings will become better assistants and more attentive companions to truly help with our most human needs. The greatest impact in the next few years will be with the elderly.
One of the things that inspires me the most about technology is its role in solving truly hard human problems.
After years of meeting with customers across the globe that are using the cloud to do just that, we had an idea to begin documenting their stories through a show called Now Go Build.
One of the inspiring customers we featured on the show was a company in Japan named Z-Works, which focuses on improving elder care and helping scale it through technology.
The problem Z-Works faced was how to offer smart and attentive care for seniors in Japan when there are fewer and fewer people available to do the job.
The solution this company (Z-Work) has arrived at was to arrange sensors in beds and throughout rooms in senior homes and connect all of them to the cloud for continuous data analysis.
The sensor arrays don’t just monitor vital signs. Because they run machine learning models trained in the cloud, the sensors can also tell if a person goes to use the bathroom and simply doesn’t return.
In that case, the system can notify someone on duty to check on the resident’s well-being. In essence, it is a very human response made possible by a very smart space.
People would do that intrinsically, if they were aware of the need.
In this case, ML models, fed by a private and secure stream of data, arrive at a similarly intelligent action to signal people.
The sensor arrays don’t just monitor vital signs. Because they run machine learning models trained in the cloud, the sensors can also tell if a person goes to use the bathroom and simply doesn’t return.
We are approaching a point where concepts like ambient computing, collections of IoT sensors, remote/mobile data collection and processing at the edge, and smart devices like Amazon Alexa will have the positive impact we always knew they would.
We are approaching a point where concepts like ambient computing, collections of IoT sensors, remote/mobile data collection and processing at the edge, and smart devices like Amazon Alexa will have the positive impact we always knew they would.
Over the next several years, we’ll see smart spaces come to life in a number of settings, but none with higher impact than elder care.
It will be a combination of the simple tasks you would expect — from dimming lights, locking doors, and switching off the oven if someone forgets — to the more contextual and proactive things that technology can do: asking questions when normal living patterns diverge and enacting common sense solutions when necessary.
It will result in taking better care of people, and in the case of an aging population, it means that we will create a new class of homes so people can actually stay at home
Originally published at
https://d1.awsstatic.com/executive-insights/en_US/Werner-Vogels-Tech-Predictions-2022.pdf
