How BMW Group has embraced AI for optimistic use circumstances and to enhance sustainability | AWS re:Invent

Synthetic intelligence (AI) helps many alternative industries and is having a very robust influence within the automotive business. Among the many most enjoyable use circumstances is for totally autonomous autos, however that’s not the one space the place AI is having an influence. For instance, Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz are working collectively to enhance vehicle manufacturing effectivity. 

On the AWS re:Invent cloud convention this week, BMW Group outlined the influence that AI has had on its group and detailed rising use circumstances the place AI will yield future optimistic enterprise outcomes.

In a session, Marco Görgmaier, GM, information transformation and synthetic intelligence, BMW Group, mentioned that his workforce had constructed up a library of hundreds of knowledge property throughout the corporate that may be reused for evaluation and AI. Since 2019, he mentioned his workforce has been in a position to ship greater than 800 use circumstances which have yielded over $1 billion in U.S. greenback worth. The use circumstances span analysis and improvement, logistics, gross sales, high quality and provider community.

“The imaginative and prescient and the mission of our workforce is to drive and scale enterprise worth creation by means of the utilization of AI throughout our price chain,” Görgmaier mentioned.

BMW driving towards a sustainable future with some assist from AI

An rising space the place BMW is now investing assets is in serving to to enhance sustainability. 

Görgmaier commented that 60% of the world’s inhabitants lives in cities and concrete areas and that’s additionally the place 70% of greenhouse gasoline emissions are generated. What BMW is now making an attempt to do is help metropolis planners in fixing issues to assist scale back emissions.

BMW is already serving to with machine studying fashions which can be in a position to predict how site visitors rules can probably assist to scale back each site visitors and gasoline emissions. ML fashions are additionally used to assist establish the place there isn’t but adequate electrical car charging infrastructure. Görgmaier mentioned {that a} lack of charging infrastructure prevents individuals from switching to an electrical car, which in flip has an influence on sustainability.

There’s additionally a BMW ML effort to assist predict the influence of parking area availability and pricing on driving patterns. These patterns embody commuting routes and site visitors, which additionally will have an effect on emissions.

Driving geospatial data with Amazon SageMaker

Görgmaier mentioned that lots of the city sustainability points that BMW is making an attempt to assist remedy can profit from geospatial data. That’s the place BMW is beginning to make use of recent geospatial capabilities within the Amazon SageMaker ML device suite that have been simply publicly revealed this week.

One space the place BMW is trying to profit from geospatial ML is for serving to to foretell when a company with a fleet of autos will be capable of transition to electrical autos.

“We arrange the purpose to coach machine studying fashions to be taught correlations between engine kind and driving profiles,” he mentioned. “The rationale behind that was if such a correlation would exist, then the mannequin may be taught to foretell the affinity of sure drivers for an electrical car based mostly on their profiles.”

As BMW was working with totally anonymized information at a fleet stage, it had to make use of GPS traces and geospatial information to make the correlations.

“On the finish of the coaching, the mannequin was able to predicting how possible it was for particular fleets to transform to EV with an accuracy of greater than 80%,” Görgmaier mentioned.