Artificial intelligence and machine vision

Artificial intelligence is widely used for edge analytics today. The new Intel processors support an extensive portfolio of AI products and optimizations for common frameworks. Particularly noteworthy are Intel OpenVINO and Microsoft ML support. Microsoft ML is a free machine learning software library for the programming languages C # and F #. It also supports Python models when used in conjunction with NimbusML. The OpenVINO toolkit includes the Intel Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit, optimized OpenCV and media encoding and decoding routines, as well as 20 pre-trained models and code samples. An efficient way to get started with computer vision and OpenVINO is the congatec workload consolidation kit for vision-based situational awareness applications. It is application ready and enables context awareness for robots, autonomous vehicles and video surveillance, passenger and pedestrian counting, or automatic checkout systems in the retail market.

Workload consolidation kit for machine vision

The workload consolidation kit for vision-based situational awareness applications from congatec, which is Intel-qualified as a production-ready Intel IoT RFP Ready Kit, demonstrates the efficiency benefits of virtualization. It offers three virtual machines (VMs) for workload consolidation of vision applications based on hypervisor technology from Real-Time Systems (RTS). One VM runs a vision-based AI application using Intel OpenVINO software for situational awareness. The second VM is real-time capable and operates deterministic control software, while the third VM acts as IIoT/Industry 4.0 gateway. The congatec kit, which was developed in cooperation with Intel and RTS and can also be made available with the new Intel Atom processor generation, targets the next generation of vision-based collaborative robotics, machine controls and autonomous vehicles that need to perform multiple tasks in parallel, including situational awareness based on deep learning based AI algorithms.

Intel IoT RFP Kit voor Workload Consolidation
congatec’s Intel IoT RFP (Ready For Production) Kit for Workload Consolidation focuses on real-time virtualization using RTS hypervisor technology.

Author: Zeljko Loncaric, Marketing Engineer, congatec AG