16-11-2020 | Advantech | Design & Manufacture
Advantech has released its comprehensive AIR series of AI inference systems, to meet different AI applications including retail facial recognition, robotic, AOI/vision inspection, intelligent transportation, and more. The solutions include different featured designs to fit diverse AI applications. The company also offers Edge AI Suite, a software toolkit with easy-to-use GUI and pre-trained AI models to assist customers in enabling AI inference on edge devices.
The series includes AIR-100, AIR-101 and AIR-200 which integrates Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU, and AIR-300 supporting a PCIe x16 high power graphic card. Powered by Intel Atom x7-E3950 CPU and one Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU, AIR-100 supports multi-4K display and is ideal for interactive kiosks and other retail applications with facial recognition functions. AIR-101 supports DIN-Rail design and 12V~28V wide-range power input with Intel Atom E3940 Quad Core processors and two Intel Movidius Myriad X VPUs. It is ideal for AGV and factory automation applications. For higher computing power demands, AIR-200 is an Intel Core i5 platform with two Intel Movidius Myriad X VPUs and supporting up to 1080p video encoding, decoding and multi-channel processing and is ideal for traffic monitoring, license plate recognition and vehicle classification applications. The powerful AIR-300 supports Intel Xeon E3/ 7th and 6th generation Core i series processor and a PCIe x16 high-performance graphic card to enable fast inference and on-premises training for robotics and optical inspection applications.
Coming with the Edge AI Suite software toolkit, the series integrates Intel OpenVINO toolkit R3.1 to facilitate accelerated deep learning inference on edge devices and real-time monitoring of device status on the GUI dashboard. The latest Advantech Edge AI Suite v1.2 incorporates an optimised pre-trained Yolov3 object detection model popular in surveillance applications which delivers 2.8x better performance on VPU than running with OpenVINO only. Customers can use Edge AI Suite v1.2 to execute the Yolov3 model with VPU+GPU heterogeneous acceleration to get 5x better AI inference performance than using a single device.
