Soracom, a subsidiary of KDDI, announced that it has incorporated generative AI capabilities into its cellular IoT connectivity and services platform. The company introduced two new services to help IoT developers with more complex IoT deployments. These are Soracom Flux and Query Intelligence. The first is a low-code application builder that allows non-technical users to build AI solutions by defining data flows between sensors, cameras, actuators, the generative AI engine, and the cloud. The second simplifies the management of large-scale IoT deployments with natural language network data analytics.
“We have always envisioned an IoT where connected devices can interact with each other and make decisions in real time, and the emergence of public generation AI services has the potential to make that vision a reality,” said Kenta Yasukawa, co-founder and chief technology officer at Soracom. [These new services] AI can be deployed deeper into the IoT stack. Project teams can now accomplish in minutes what previously took months and specialized skills. Non-technical managers can now have full control over the largest and most globally distributed IoT networks.”
Soracom Flux aims to make it easy to create custom IoT apps that automate actions by integrating multiple data sources with a variety of generative AI engines, including OpenAI, Google Gemini, Microsoft Azure AI, and Amazon Bedrock. The company says developers can create apps in minutes. It markets to manufacturing, construction, healthcare, energy, and retail industries. It showed an example where a camera detects a worker not wearing proper protective gear and triggers an alert with user-defined data flows and natural language instructions.
Soracom Query Intelligence, meanwhile, allows administrators to query IoT network data in natural language and receive analytical results as narrative text and data visualizations. It’s built on the company’s Soracom Query managed data warehouse service, which stores and analyzes platform-level data, such as device session history, data usage, and billing information. It’s also a low-code solution, the company says, aimed at enabling “anyone” to perform complex data analysis, even without experience in SQL programming or data visualization.
The tool provided examples of requesting a list of SIMs with high connect/disconnect rates to identify and troubleshoot unstable devices on a large network, and requesting a map of SIMs currently connected to a particular carrier to identify areas that require carrier cellular switching to maintain connectivity and better manage vehicle fleets. Soracom Flux is currently available to customers as a public beta, with Professional and Enterprise plans coming later this year. Soracom Query Intelligence is available to select customers as a preview.