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Causal Digital Twin from Multi-channel IoT

Signal Processing 2021-06-07 v1

Abstract

Treating data from each sensor in an IoT installation on its own separately is wasteful. This article shows how to treat them as a multi-channel time series and introduces the State-space model formulation of Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model and the use of time-varying Kalman Filter for optimal estimation of causal parameters. Ladder graphs are introduced as a powerful visualization tool for SVAR estimates where both instantaneous and lagged causal factors are displayed and interactions analyzed. Ladder Graph IS the Causal Digital Twin (CDT); its use for multiple IoT applications that involve multi-channel time series are explored briefly. The main takeaway is that the NEXT STEP in IoT ML is the utilization of data from multiple sensors collectively as a single multi-channel time series. This article shows the way to do it and extract high-order (causal) information via our ladder graph based Causal Digital Twin.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02135,
  title  = {Causal Digital Twin from Multi-channel IoT},
  author = {PG Madhavan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02135},
  year   = {2021}
}
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