We are on the precipice of major change – change that will define both America and the world for generations to come. Economically, politically, and technologically, the next ten years will be a trend-setter for the next hundred years. Wars and rumors of wars, worries over the future of work under Generative AI, worries over what copyright and knowledge itself will look like in the face of the same – all these questions are coming to a head at the same time.
America as a country is facing the toughest question we’ll face this century – how do we bring our manufacturing and our knowledge back? How do we transfer existing knowledge and experience built up through the decades? How do we rebuild the decades of knowledge and industry expertise that have been lost?
One option is to increase knowledge work. But that doesn’t solve the fundamental challenge, that we need technologies that help us re-establish manufacturing, not replace it. We need advanced technologies that meet us where we are – on the factory floor, out in the plant, not in the cloud. And we need these technologies to help us actively transfer knowledge to the current and next generations – to keep it safe, but also ensure that those who need that knowledge can use it when they need it.
Solving this fundamental challenge was why I founded Sentinel Devices – to revolutionize how information is kept, shared, and used within power plants, water treatment, manufacturing, and all the other critical infrastructure we rely on every day. Instead of sending data to a cloud or external server, we make devices that do everything locally – data collection, storage, and AI processing is all done entirely local to the equipment, with no data sent outside the customer facility.
This means that customers never need to worry about who has their data, where it’s being sent to, what it’s being used for or whether they’ll lose it because someone forgot to pay a bill. Their data – and anything they learn from their data – stays only with them.
This doesn’t just ensure the data is secure – it also ensures that the data can be immediately learned from and used in the field, by the very same people that are generating the data. This is a paradigm shift in how AI is done – and we’re making it happen right here in ATL.
