Internet Initiative Japan Inc. and Brains Technology, Inc. announced that they will jointly develop monitoring systems that utilize machine learning to predict and detect system failures, and will sell said systems as failure prediction and detection solutions for IT equipment and IoT devices, targeting mostly telecom industry and the IoT market. As artificial intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly applied to business, the areas in which machine learning can be applied continue to expand. Machine learning is a technology that is capable of predicting future results by recursively learning from input data and discovering patterns within that data.

The application of machine learning to business is expected to grow because this technology can reduce production costs by performing work that was originally done by people, and it is capable of making predictions that are more accurate than those of people. The two companies will build a cooperative framework for technological development, marketing, and sales activities to meet the demand for solutions that utilize this technology and provide preventive maintenance as well. In addition to failure prediction and detection, IIJ and Brains Technology plan to automate the management and control of systems and devices that utilize machine learning or AI, and then to create next-generation cloud computing networks to support these frameworks, with their sights set on IoT environments that will require communication between the tens of billions of devices that will connect to the Internet in the future and on the large-scale data processing that these devices will require.