Thunderml: A Toolkit For Enabling Ai/Ml Models On Cloud For Industry 4.0

AI, machine learning, and deep learning tools have now become easily accessible on the cloud. However, the adoption of these cloud-based services for heavy industries has been limited due to the gap between general purpose AI tools and operational requirements for production industries. There are three fundamentals gaps. The first is the lack of purpose built solution pipelines designed for common industrial problem types, the second is the lack of tools for automating the learning from noisy sensor data and the third is the lack of platforms which help practitioners leverage cloud-based environment for building and deploying custom modeling pipelines. In this paper, we present ThunderML, a toolkit that addresses these gaps by providing powerful programming model that allows rapid authoring, training and deployment for Industry 4.0 applications. Importantly, the system also facilitates cloud-based deployments by providing a vendor agnostic pipeline execution and deployment layer.