>> Hello world. Welcome to Microsoft unboxed.
My name Colleen O'Brien.
I'm here with my friend and co-host, Sonia Dara.
Every week, we're sharing stories of
Microsoft technology and the people behind that technology.
Our theme for this week is Intelligent Cloud Intelligent Edge.
>> Before we begin,
please remember to subscribe to our channel.
We have a new episode every Thursday morning.
>> Don't miss it. So we're talking about a lot
of intelligent things today.
The Intelligent Cloud, the Intelligent
Edge, two intelligent hosts.
What is your ultimate intelligent day look like?
>> An alarm that woke me up knowing basically wherever I am,
maybe in my REM cycle, and so it wakes me up.
I am absolutely a culprit for hitting the snooze buttons.
The app would be smart enough to be like,
''Got you this time.''
Maybe that should be set nine minutes earlier.
I think once I get to the office,
save time from rescheduling.
Why does rescheduling take so much work day?
>> It's too much.
>> Too much. Then going home.
''Hey Sonia, you've been eating pretty crappy all day,
you should probably get a salad.''
>> I think mornings would be fairly similar.
>> Except yours would be two hours before me.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm an early bird.
>> She's an early bird. I'm a neither early bird or late bird.
>> You're an afternoon renegade.
>> Is that a thing?
>> Yeah. I just made it up.
But something that I would really love because I love a good chat,
recommended things to talk about.
Yeah. Hey, this person's college football team just lost.
Make a joke about that.
>> Tough. Rub it in. They lost.
>> Okay.
>> Good chat.
>> I could dial it up for friendliness.
This colleague's child is selling Girl Scout cookies.
Be sure to pick up a box.
>> Or five.
>> These recommendations for deeper human connection I think.
>> Got that.
>> We'll talk a lot about the Intelligent Cloud and
Intelligent Edge in this episode today.
>> Yeah.
>> I just wanted to lay a little bit of a foundation.
Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge is
a worldview that we have at this company.
The structure through which we think
about building customer solutions.
The Intelligent Edge is this concept of
interconnected computing devices in every shape, form, and size.
Computing is everywhere and it's in everything.
Perhaps, it's in the espresso machine
where you ordered your latte this morning.
The lights in your home which turn on at a specific time.
It's in your smartwatch.
You won't even notice what is or what isn't a computer.
Computing is ubiquitous.
The Intelligent Edge is referred to the Edge
because there are the devices that are closest to us.
We are on the edge with our devices. That's not good.
>> That was pretty good.
>> You may be thinking,
''These devices in my life are not intelligent.
My espresso machine is analog.
My watch is analog.
How do I tap into the Intelligent Edge?'' We got you guys.
Azure Sphere is an IoT solution for creating highly secured,
connected micro-controller powered devices.
It's empowering a new world of devices at the Intelligent Edge,
and can perhaps make
a regular old refrigerator, a smart refrigerator.
Another use case of the Intelligent Edge that I want
to touch on is drones.
>> Yeah drones. You love Drones.
I love Drones. Everyone loves drones
>> I've been meaning to talk about drones for awhile.
DJI Drones are featured in Satya Nadella's keynote at Build 2018.
It's our Developer Conference.
DJI Drones, they're ethos as a company
are to do work that is dull, dirty, or dangerous.
So there are huge implications here for
enterprises who are in the business of doing that type of work.
Azure IoT Edge enables Azure services to escape
the Cloud and actually be inside these DJI Drones.
>> Cool.
>> So they're doing that computing remotely.
In this demo at Build,
the customer scenario for Rockwell Automation is that there
is an anomaly detected on some of their exterior pipes.
>> Help, I'm broken.
Help I'm the pipe.
>> I'm really excited to live in a world with smart pipes.
Instead of dispatching a worker to go check out the situation,
a drone can actually fly over
those exterior pipes and send back visual imagery.
So the remote team can assess if it's something
that requires immediate attention
or something that is less concerning.
Now, we can keep people safe, and more efficient,
and effective, by dispatching an Edge device like a drone,
to help us get through the day.
>> I am going to tell you about
a UK retailer called Marks and Spencer.
They wanted to try to find
ways to improve the shopping experience,
but also trying to change to a culture of being faster,
leaner, and just more digitally focused.
They're trying to weave technology into
every touch point in the front of store and also behind the scene.
Every surface screen, scanner,
everything is going to consume data,
but also help create and make sense out of this data.
Imagine you're a customer at Marks and Spencer,
and you're trying to find peanut butter.
>> That sounds exactly like me.
>> I'm a Marks and Spencer employee.
I'm restocking the yogurt I'm in the yogurt aisle,
and come up and ask me,
''Where can I find the peanut butter?''.
>> I'm in the dairy aisle.
What am I doing?
I'm so lost here.
>> You're not thinking clearly. Imagine I'm little clumsy,
and I am in real-life,
and I knock over one of the pallets of yogurt on the floor.
I would have to go call maintenance to come out help clean it.
Realize that we lost a pallet of
yogurt that we needed to account for in our supply,
and then wait for an order to come through
to then replenish this yogurt.
Instead, there is a camera that recognizes this fall and palate,
can recognize the scanner like
the bar code on it and scan it to be like,
''That was a palette of the Greek yogurt.
That was from this date.
It was this many units in that palette.''
Automatically notifies the back of house to replenish it.
Another employee gets notified to then deliver
this new palette to me as I'm restocking.
So in a matter of a few minutes,
Intelligent Edge right there recognizes it, picks it up,
but also makes sense of
this data of what it just saw this spillage,
and helps get everything back in order and running again.
>> A smart grocery store.
>> More importantly though,
I hope you found your peanut butter not in the dairy aisle.
>> I think I'm still lost.
>> Are you still lost? Using also the cameras,
they recognize that there is congestion in aisle file.
A bunch of people are trying to get pasta,
and some people are buying.
>> I've been there.
>> Cereal and you're all bumping shoulders.
It's a smaller store.
>> Sunday night grocery shop.
>> Everyone's elbowing each other.
It'll notify an employee of the store to consider move
the pasta to the end of aisle
eight to help alleviate this congestion.
So it's recognizing people are all bustling in one area,
and makes a suggestion of what to remove
from that area to help create more flow for traffic.
So yeah. Marks and Spencer is using
this Intelligent Cloud Intelligent Edge for
really improving their customer experience
and shopping experience, it's great.
>> We should go.
>> Yeah. Let's go to London.
Next episode, Unboxed London.
Can we do that? I'll say look to our producer.
>> So whether it's these cameras at Marks and Spencer,
or the DJI Drones that Rockwell Automation is using,
there is huge opportunity to leverage
this Intelligent Edge capability to
improve the experience of your employees or your customers.
All of this talk makes me realize that we
need some Azure Sphere technology for our box.
>> Came with a smart box,
which leads us to our next segment.
>> Outside the Box.
>> We have some questions in
smart box that Colleen and I will answer.
Some of them are submitted by you.
Some of them are in the box,
but you can always submit more questions if you want.
>> How would you spend a typical rainy day?
>> Probably, would wake up and make a nice breakfast.
I also like meeting up with friends and hosting them.
So I usually do cooking days
like go grab some groceries
and everyone come in together and cook.
So most recently, I've been on a homemade pasta binge.
When it's a rainy day, which is all the time here,
it's nice to just have fun like friends together.
>> It's not all the time,
but it's a lot of time.
>> It;s a lot of the time, it's great. What was
your favorite Halloween costume?
>> My favorite Halloween costume was when I dressed
as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
My dad had made me a hard shell.
>> What?
>> Yeah. It was so cool.
I'm pretty sure the next year my brother
was also a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
>> Recycle. Yeah.
>> We were a hand-me-down family.
That's going to wrap it up for outside the box this week.
But if you have any questions
that you'd like us to add to the box,
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>> Too much. Bye everyone.
>> Spooky.
>> That's the intelligent ghost.
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