Great example / scenario of how Azure Machine Language can help your business drive down costs.

Since last year the company has been working with Microsoft to build a monitoring system that feeds data from its elevators and escalators to the Azure cloud platform, using Microsoft’s Intelligent Systems Service to help capture that information and its Machine Learning service to make sense of it.

The aim is to develop a system that knows what repairs need to be carried out before anything breaks and which can advise engineers on what work needs doing during call-outs.

“With machine learning we’re going to be given a list saying ‘On your next maintenance these are the tasks that you should perform’,” said Smith.

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