India’s Altizon is refreshing in its reluctance to attach the AI tag to its industrial IoT platform, called Datonis, which now has customers in eight sectors for predictive monitoring and quality control. There is passing mention of machine-learning within its product literature but AI hardly appears at all, despite use of neural network and the Python language widely associated with AI development. This is because the company wants to emphasize the aspects of its platform that really make a difference for customers, according to Altizon VP Marketing Abhijit Mhetre. “AI is a very overhyped word,” said Mhetre. “There is a lot of R&D going on and we can say that some of our predictive maintenance is a slice of that…