Deep learning is the new buzz-term in the tech world, defining a new level of machine learning that has captured the imaginations and pockets of some of the world’s biggest digital companies. In the smart building and smart city sectors, deep learning is fostering the evolution of smarter sensors and reducing the overwhelming demands created by centralised big data. While the concept is not entirely new, recent activity in the market suggests that deep learning may represent a turning point in the machine intelligence story. “Pattern recognition” is considered by many to be the birth of “smart” programming and was a term popular in the 70s and 80s. The emphasis was on getting a computer program to do something smart like recognise characters. In the 90’s came “Machine Learning”, which used algorithms to replace experts with data. With machine learning the emphasis was on the computer program (or machine) to do some learning after it […]