Maximizing Asset

Health using Cognitive

Fingerprinting
With the proliferation of sensors on everything from your refrigerator to the
clothes you wear, data is everywhere. The data explosion, however, isnt just limited to
consumer goods. The industrial sector is also experiencing an industrial data revolution.

Gartner says the Internet of Things (IoT) installed base will grow to 26 Billion units
by 2020, which represents a near 30X increase since 20091. This figure is estimated
to result in a $1.9 trillion value-add in global economic markets and will dwarf the
consumer market.

A major contributor to sensor proliferation is the decrease in sensor cost and

size, while increasing in sophistication. These characteristics make sensors an
exponential technology, promising repeated doublings in improvement in price
and performance over the short-term. For example, in 2007 the average cost of an
accelerometer sensor was $3; in 2014, the average was 54 cents 2.
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Austin, TX 78759 As an example of this, when imagining a train hauling cargo across the country
most of us only visualize a simple machine with an engine, some boxcars, and lots
@sparkcognition of wheels. But GEs latest locomotive has 250 sensors measuring 150,000 data
sparkcognition points per minute 3.
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info@sparkcognition.com These sensors are producing Rivers of Data
Boeing jet engines can produce 10 terabytes of operational information for every
30 minutes they turn. A four-engine jumbo jet can create 640 terabytes of data
on just one Atlantic crossing; multiply that by the more than 25,000 flights flown
each day, and you get an understanding of the impact that sensor and machine-
produced data can make on a BI environment 4.

Making sense out of the rivers of data being generated by these intelligent devices
is one of the key, yet many times overlooked, components of the industrial internet.
 Often, the collected data becomes dark data. Dark data is operational
Ineffective maintenance data not being used. According to IDC, most companies document 22
accounts for $60 billion annually, percent of the data they collect, but they can analyze on average only
according to ARC research 5 percent of their data. Not only is the data wasted, but organizations
are paying in bandwidth, server space, inefficient retrieval, and
overhead to maintain this data 5.

There needs to be a better way for plant operators, subject matter experts, CFOs, CIOs, etc. to gain value from these rivers
of data. In many cases, however, the business doesnt have the expertise, the time, or both to derive value from the data.
This is where Machine Learning can utilize computing platforms to gain actionable insight and value from the data.

SparkPredict to detect asset failures

According to ARC Research, ineffective maintenance accounts for $60 billion annually. SparkPredict, and its patent
pending Cognitive Fingerprinting algorithm, allows users to take massive amounts of data and, in an automated fashion,
quickly build models to find meaning in the reams data; dramatically improving maintenance strategies and costs.

SparkCognition has been working with one of the largest suppliers of industrial and environmental machinery-pumps,
valves, mechanical seals, etc.,- to take real-time data off of their horizontal pumps and prevent future breakdown.

By using 3 years of operational data to train on, SparkCognitions

algorithms were able to predict future failures with over 5 days
of warning in just a few short weeks. This was a 20x operational
improvement over the existing models, which had been in
development for decades by the clients subject matter experts. This
was possible because of algorithmic advances in feature derivation,
feature selection, and model building and ensemblingall of which
come together in what we call Cognitive Fingerprinting.

The beauty of SparkCognitions Cognitive Fingerprinting algorithm

is its use for a wide variety of applications. A second case study is the
work being done with Invenergy, LLC which develops, builds, owns,
and operates power generation and energy storage projects used
to monitor hundreds of their wind turbines looking for mechanical
breakdowns centered around gearboxes. For those familiar with
the wind industry, maintenance of turbines is a major problem. It is
estimated that in 2011, nearly $40 billion worth of wind equipment
in the U.S. will be out of warranty, thrusting the financial risk on the
owner to provide cost-effective operation and maintenance 6.

Invenergy utilizes the SparkPredict platform in order to predict gearbox failures across their fleet. Utilizing Cognitive
Fingerprinting, SparkPredict was able to increase catastrophic failure prediction from a few days to a median lead time
of 37 days with a prediction confidence greater than 90% and no false positives. The algorithm takes 26 features provided
by the customer, transforms those into over 1,000 features, automatically models the data to create failure prediction
signatures, and provides results in real-time. Asking a human to analyze tens of thousands of variables across six years of
data would have been a virtually impossible task.

In addition to these two case studies, the SparkCognition team is utilizing Cognitive Fingerprinting to solve customers
issues in the fields of Finance, Oil & Gas, and Manufacturing.

To find out more

To learn more about how your organization
can use the power of AI and Machine Learning
to bring Cognitive Efficiency to your business,
please visit www.sparkcognition.com or
contact us at (512) 431-9277.
1 http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2636073
2 https://www.accenture.com/us-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/next-gen/reassembling-industry/
pdf/Accenture-Driving-Unconventional-Growth-through-IIoT.pdf
3 http://www.cnet.com/news/at-ge-making-the-most-advanced-locomotives-in-history/
4 http://www.information-management.com/issues/21_5/
big-data-is-scaling-bi-and-analytics-10021093-1.html
5 http://www.ni.com/pdf/company/en/Trend_Watch_2016_Big_Data.pdf
6 http://awea.files.cms-plus.com/FileDownloads/pdfs/O-M-PPR_1-pager-3.pdf