https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-partner-network-questions/the-missing-input/m-p/1709177#M42 <P>Every partner and every customer is racing to point AI at their data. Most are about to hit the same wall.</P><P>The models are ready. The historical data is there. Esri provides the spatial context. But ask the AI what’s actually happening to your critical assets right now — temperature, location, shock, whether that door just opened mid-ocean — and there’s nothing in the pipe. The real-time ground truth is the missing input.</P><P>That’s the layer mist® delivers: live, geolocated sensor data from your highest-value assets, including the places GPS and cellular can’t reach. Feed it into ArcGIS, feed it into your AI, and the model is finally reasoning about the present — not just the past.</P><P>The frenzy is real. The missing piece is real-time IoT.</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Drop your hardest tracking problem in the replies — I’d like to see if we fit</P><P><EM>RSAE Labs · Veteran-Owned Small Business · <A href="http://www.RSAELabs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.RSAELabs.com</A></EM></P> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:19:02 GMT JeffreyGreene 2026-06-22T20:19:02Z