Advantech Partners to Build a Diverse Edge AI Ecosystem and Boost Application Development

Amid the trend of digital transformation, AI applications are rapidly being implemented across a variety of sectors. As a key player in this trend, Advantech has leveraged its deep expertise in edge computing and embedded markets to facilitate AI computing upgrades, in collaboration with its partners. These efforts support downstream industries to achieve their digital transformation goals. 

In recent years, many AI applications have transitioned from the cloud to edge computing, leading to rapid growth in Edge AI. A recent Market.us report forecasts that the Edge AI market will reach USD 143.6 billion by 2033. To align with this trend, Advantech is committed to enhancing its comprehensive EdgeAI Computing Solutions, assisting system integrators to accelerate the integration of AI into existing embedded applications, and ensuring they remain competitive in the future. 

Complete EdgeAI Inference Solutions: From Hardware to Software 

Advantech has a long-standing commitment to embedded markets, gaining deep insights into embedded applications. In addition to offering a broad range of standardised form factors, Advantech collaborates with strategic partners like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, NXP, Qualcomm, and Hailo. Together, they have developed comprehensive edge AI computing solutions that include both hardware and software. Through design-in services that accelerate application development, Advantech helps customers overcome the numerous challenges of integrating AI technology, establishing itself as the ideal partner for embedded AI applications. 

On the hardware front, Advantech recognises that different AI models and deployment scenarios have varying requirements for computing power and performance. To meet these diverse needs, it offers three hardware solutions catering to AI inference demands across a spectrum of computing requirements, including the following:  

AI Acceleration Modules: These modules allow for the rapid upgrade of existing embedded systems.  

AI-Enabled Application Solutions: These solutions include AI on Modules and Boards, and AI-Ready Edge Systems. These products enable seamless integration of computing power between embedded systems and edge devices, maximising overall efficiency.   

High-Performance AI Solutions: These solutions consist of EdgeAI Server Boards and EdgeAI Server Systems that deliver sever-grade performance for applications requiring significant computing power, such as medical image recognition and analysis.  

On the software side, Advantech provides AI development tools to meet the needs of each stage in the AI implementation process:  

1. AI Model Development: In this initial phase, Advantech leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Intel® Geti™ to help customers create AI models which meet specific requirements.   

2. AI Development Environment: After model creation, customers need a fully equipped development environment. Advantech’s Edge AI SDK software tools integrate AI SDKs from silicon partners with underlying drivers and operating systems from its own hardware platforms, offering a reliable and stable edge AI development environment.   

3. Model Deployment and Inference: Once the model is trained, it must be deployed onto devices for inference. Advantech’s DeviceOn remote management platform deploys models across edge devices, ensuring that edge AI applications deliver tangible benefits.  

EdgeAI Design-in Services: Empowering Businesses to Gain a Competitive Edge  

Advantech’s Design-in Service provides comprehensive support, including power management, thermal design, certification, security, and peripheral device integration. These services address potential challenges in AI implementation, significantly reducing deployment time. For instance, in vision AI applications, Advantech has collaborated with silicon partners and camera manufacturers to co-develop a turnkey solution that integrates data transmission interfaces, drivers, and image signal processors (ISPs) to seamlessly incorporate cameras into Edge AI applications. 

Accelerating Technology and Market Integration Through a Diverse and Open Edge AI Ecosystem 

As AI rapidly evolves with innovations in chips, development tools, and software, businesses often face challenges selecting the right solutions. To address this, Advantech aims to collaborate with partners who share our vision to build a diverse, open, and standardized edge AI ecosystem. This collaboration will simplify the deployment of hardware and software services, reducing the difficulties and challenges often encountered in AI implementation. 

With continuous advancement in AI, Advantech is committed to helping customers harness its potential to gain a competitive edge. Drawing on its technology and experience over 40 years, as well as the strength of its ecosystem, Advantech integrates a variety of software and hardware to enable its customers to transition into the edge AI era, utilising their existing equipment and resources, with the vision of enabling an intelligent planet. 

Visit Advantech and its ecosystem partners at electronica 2024 in Munich on November 12-15 (booth E04 in the Embedded Village; Hall B4).

For more information please visit https://www.advantech.com/.