According to ABI Research, orders for edge AI-enabled devices will increase 15x to 1.2 billion units by 2023. Edge AI enables real-time decision-making without the limitations of latency, cost, bandwidth, power consumption, and other constraints. Advantech offers the industry's first integrated solutions for edge AI applications, ranging from the VEGA-300 Series AI acceleration modules and inference systems to the ESRP Series domain-centric solution packages. All our solutions come with the Advantech Edge AI Suite, which combines the Intel® OpenVINO™ toolkit, pre-trained models, and edge management with an easy-to-use UI to accelerate edge AI inference.
“Advantech is working closely with Intel to apply artificial intelligence to edge computing,” says Miller Chang, President of Embedded IoT, Advantech. “Combined with Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU and the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, our advanced AI solutions help customers rapidly develop and deploy vision-based AI applications such as robotics/AGV/drone, traffic monitoring, and healthcare visualization analytics,” Chang says.
Edge AI Suite
Advantech Edge AI Suite is a software development kit for accelerating edge AI inference. With the integrated Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ utility kit, Edge AI Suite provides a deep learning model optimizer, an inference engine, pre-trained models, and remote monitoring with a user-friendly GUI. Customers can use the Python-based API to quickly import their existing models trained on Caffe, TensorFlow, Apache MXNet, and ONNX and deploy them to edge devices. Edge AI Suite also integrates real-time VPU/CPU/Memory status monitoring and model update features for managing distributed edge devices.
Edge AI Modules: VEGA-300 Series
Advantech Edge AI modules offer compact, low-power modules in two form factors: VEGA-320 series m.2 modules with an integrated Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU, and VEGA-330 series miniPCIe modules with two onboard Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPUs. Together, they help accelerate computer vision and deep learning in your edge systems for a wide range of AI-based vertical applications.
Edge AI SRPs for Intelligent Traffic: ESRP-LPR.
With our alignment of software partners, the Advantech ESRP-LPR series provides an integrated solution for intelligent traffic applications. Our solution includes an inference system, pre-trained models such as license plate recognition, vehicle classification, vehicle counting, and pedestrian detection. Additionally, edge management software is included for rapid development of AI-based intelligent traffic applications to help accelerate your application deployment.
VEGA-320 and VEGA-330 will be ready in April, while ESRP-LPR will be ready in May.
