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Anatomy of a contextualization engine for AI use case scaling in industryIf there is one thing we at Cognite get a lot of questions about, it’s contextualization. Not so much what is contextualization, but specifically on two subsequent topics:How does your contextualization engine actually work?  How does contextualization make use case scaling order of magnitude (or two!) more efficient?In this article, we will address both the above questions. We will also offer an executive summary on data contextualization and its role in modern data management towards the end for completeness. Let’s dive in!Read the article here.

Controlled water flow is the obvious center of all hydropower operations. This is where stored, potential energy transforms into valuable, sustainable power — a source which accounts for more than 1300 GW of electricity produced worldwide.Hydropower operations have been evolving through technology, process, and approach in order to control, optimize, and take advantage of this water flow. With the same end objective in mind — improved operational efficiency and adaptability to compounding energy industry pressures — operators can take a similar approach to data flow and transformation.Read more.

In 2020, resiliency has taken on expanded meaning as utility companies worldwide adopt new, evolving strategies for new, evolving norms.Defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness,” resilience is usually thought of in relation to the operator’s ability to bounce back from severe weather events and unexpected grid outages. Today, this operational pillar remains as important as it ever was. In August 2020, Tropical Storm Isaias battered the East Coast and caused more than two million power outages. That same month, Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm, pounded the Gulf Coast for hours, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power in Louisiana and Texas. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, California faced new, unexpected blackouts due to an intense heatwave, an overloaded grid and offline generation. Not only are these examples indicative of the pressures to come; they highlight the fact that operational resilience is a moving target, making it difficult to

Grid operators and professional athletes — on the surface, these two groups could not seem more different. But both can (and should) use a common strategy to boost their performance.In addition to regular skills-specific training, professional athletes embrace the importance of flexibility as a key driver of future success. Building flexibility by stretching after each workout improves range of motion, increases strength and resiliency, and prevents future injury — all delivering the means to compete more effectively under increasingly dynamic conditions.Read more.