“Any real-world problem could be best solved if a group of people comes together to put in their dedicated efforts. When it comes to the collective efforts of dedicated individuals, Success is bound to occur!”

1. Rudradeb Mitra
Data Natives, Berlin, 22nd October 2018

2. Two Stories

3. Students from all over India — who have never met each other — are collaborating to build a community driven
Machine Learning product for the clean energy sector.

4. 1.2 Billion people live without access to electricity

5. Centralized System

6. "Imagine a future where energy is cheap,
clean and abundant for all. Where each home
or building is self-sufficient."
Machine Learning bringing a new era in the Energy sector - Rudradeb Mitra
https://medium.com/savera-ai/machine-learning-bringing-a-new-era-in-the-energy-
sector-distributed-abundant-and-a-clean-world-cf06365c29ff

7. How to build such a future?

8. What Intelligent Machines can do?
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9. Ground reality in majority of
the world is different....

10. So we want Intelligent
Machines to

11. Mapping of Rooftops
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Our Goal

13. Challenges are
• Access to data for training the model.
• Cost of development.

14. Iresh Mishra, 4th Year student
https://medium.com/swlh/six-reasons-on-why-community-driven-ai-is-the-key-to-im

15. The picture above: Some of the results
And results for Predicting Roof Edges
https://towardsdatascience.com/using-image-segmentation-to-identify-rooftops-in-low-resolution-satellite-images-
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16. Second Story:
Collecting driving data in
Belgium

17. Identify driving patters
• Speed
• Acceleration
• Braking
• Mobile Usage

18. Goals &
challenges Rewards
Use Gamification and attached
missions with greater good

20. And results
https://www.efma.com/article/detail/28915

21. Summarizing
• When communities are involved, it helps to build trust and
get easier access to data.
• Product built with diverse opinions and is more inclusive.
• Drastically reduces the cost of development and increases
democratization of AI/ML.

22. Feel free to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitrar/