Synthetic Sensors and Surrogate Data: How Agentic AI Fills Gaps and Fights Fraudulent IoT Streams

What happens when your sensors lie, or simply go silent?

In our hyper-connected world, IoT systems power our most critical infrastructure. Smart factories run around the clock. Energy grids balance supply and demand in real time. Logistics networks track millions of shipments across continents. All of this depends on one thing: continuous, trustworthy data streams flowing from thousands of sensors.

The traditional answer has been redundancy and maintenance. Add more sensors. Check them more often. But there's another way, one that doesn't just patch the problem but reimagines how we think about sensing itself. Agentic AI offers a path beyond physical sensors, using intelligence and inference to synthesize and validate the data we need.