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33 ST/Industrial Sensing Solutions STMicroelectronics (ST) has a long history and demon- strated expertise in MEMS-based sensors. As the first major manufacturer to start high-volume MEMS-based sensor production on 200mm wafers, ST launched the consumer sensor revolution by making motion sensors small, accu- rate, and affordable through the combination of inno- vative product design, deep application expertise, and industry-leading process and packaging technology. ST has continued to grow and diversify the industry's most ex- tensive portfolio of sensors into new types of devices and application segments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) AI technology is prompting the reality of smart factories. AI may characteristically get defined concerning its capac- ity to assist computers and machines to simulate human intelligence. It brings to computers and machines capa- bilities such as machine vision, computational reasoning, the ability to adapt to changing situations and contexts, and systemic feedback toward self-correction called ma- chine learning (ML). All these capabilities employ a large amount of sensor data. AI in practice allows the factory floor to advance its ability to meet organizational objectives. Figure 1: In smart factories, robotics and factory automation employ industrial sensors and AI. (Source: Mouser Electronics) Decision Making on the Factory Floor Overall, factory automation data analysis and decisions get made at the cloud level in real-time as data from various sensors in the factory get processed and analyzed continuously. Cloud-level decision-making requires several things to happen: • An event trigger • Data collection that detect the event • Event data gets uploaded to the cloud • Cloud level analysis and decision making • Download event response to the gateway or down- stream further to an endpoint, edge node, or smart object