Czech-Slovak Technology Summit 2024

The 3rd edition of the Czech-Slovak Technology Summit took place in June in Mikulov and the TTC Group was a partner. Discussed topics included news and trends in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and cloud services.

The summit´s common vision is to assist the integration of intelligent systems and robots into human work, the smoothest possible implementation of AI into the overall industrial and economic processes, as well as eliminate or at least minimalize the number of threats related to the rapid technological development and the collection of big data needed for the industry´s automation during the time of escalated geopolitical situations.

Martin Bajer from TTC MARCONI and Filip Procházka from Mycroft Mind also contributed to this topic on the HN.cz news server.

Správa železnice (The Railway Administration) is currently verifying the operation of video-analytic tools using artificial intelligence. The newly developed software can detect potentially dangerous situations and incidents in real time. TTC MARCONI is currently realizing a pilot project for the state organization, which is focused on the improvement of rail transport safety. “In this case, artificial intelligence secures the effective learning to recognize selected situations as well as the elimination of false alarms, when deployed on specific cameras. Thanks to the rapid emergence and development of AI and the quality of video-streaming, the area of video-analytics has great potential in helping to ensure the operational and physical safety of the railway. Until now, camera images have been evaluated at a monitoring station, where the operator was able to select and monitor these specific cameras. With such a large number of centres, this is not very efficient,” commented Martin Bajer, Business Development Director at TTC MARCONI, on one example of using AI in practice.

The fact that our Czech development teams are not at all behind the developed world can be seen by the involvement of the Brno-based company Mycroft Mind. Its specialists are a part of an international team, who are focused on embedding algorithms directly into smart meters, electric car chargers and photovoltaics, in a process called “embedding emergency intelligence”. These devices are then able to continuously teach themselves the behaviour of measured locations, predicting its own reaction to various situations. This is the basis for the efficient use of renewable energy sources. Major global companies from the chip industry, such as NXP, ST Micro, Robert Bosch and Infineon, as well as global smart meter manufacturers from Switzerland and Singapore, are cooperating on this interesting European project.

“The basis of intelligence is the ability to predict what will happen and adjust its behaviour accordingly. We are working on bringing the ability of predicting and adapting to the devices that are helping to operate and maintain the stability of the European power grid. These devices have a relatively small computing capacity and there are hundreds of millions of them in use throughout the European networks. It is not possible to make them more expensively by adding such things as a neural network accelerator to every electricity meter. That is why we will work with our partners to optimise the algorithms of embedded energy intelligence so that they are able to operate in such devices,” described Filip Procházka, co-founder and CTO of Mycroft Mind, which has been designing and developing machine learning methods for smart energy for the past twelve years.

Read (in Czech) the full article in Hospodářské noviny here: https://hn.cz/c1-67336410-hleda-se-optimalni-reseni-mohl-mit-v-zahlavi-cesko-slovensky-technologicky-summit

A video from this year’s event can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIvZbNKQXg

It was a great opportunity to gain new information and contacts.

Photo: CEDEG