Recently, Mr. Bao Zhiwei, Director of Edge Artificial Intelligence Systems and Servers of Advantech Technology, and Chen Jun, Senior Product Manager of Advantech (China) Industrial Internet of Things Business Group, jointly accepted an interview with reporters, explaining how Advantech focuses on edge AI industrialization in the era of artificial intelligence and seeks industry intelligence through the integration of industrial technology.
From face recognition to behavior recognition, from license plate recognition to traffic empowerment, and from packaging detection to intelligent warehousing. Nowadays, artificial intelligence technology has ushered in a wave of implementation in many production and life scenarios, profoundly changing the present and shaping the future.
As a global enterprise with key influence in the automation industry, embedded computers, and the Internet of Things, Advantech is taking advantage of the wave of intelligent development to catch up.
empowers the industry. Advantech deeply explores the application value of AI segments
"At present, vivid examples are constantly verified, edge AI is constantly bringing efficiency improvement and value growth to all industries." Bao Zhiwei said that edge AI industry is rapidly entering the "industrialization" stage, and its value and potential are being paid attention to by more and more companies.
Bao Zhiwei, Director of Edge Artificial Intelligence System and Server, Advantech Technology,
Many AI-based electric vehicles entering elevator monitoring and alarm systems that emerged in the industry some time ago, which illustrates this point. With the help of mature AI technology, visual structured analysis is used to achieve real-time monitoring and prevention of dangerous behaviors or states in line with the continuous release of current AI technology dividends.
Based on actual needs, Advantech has launched the elevator AI safety monitoring system through cooperation with Xindun Technology. Chen Jun, senior product manager in charge of this project, introduced, "Based on computer vision and artificial intelligence technology, the system can identify events that endanger passenger safety and trigger response functions such as warning prompts and emergency braking, thereby reducing the occurrence of accidents."
This elevator AI security monitoring system is equipped with edge AI inference module built on Advantech Jetson platform. This module is compact and wide-temperature design, which is conveniently installed in complex and rigorous application scenarios such as elevators. It also consumes low power, has flexible I/O expansion, and supports deep learning models. It is an ideal choice for edge computing embedded AI applications.
Adva (China) Senior Product Manager of Industrial Internet of Things Business Group Chen Jun
Bao Zhiwei said that in the face of demand in production and life, the elevator AI security monitoring system is just a microcosm of Advantech's empowerment of thousands of industries for the current edge AI.
From face recognition and behavior analysis to unmanned driving, vehicle-road collaboration, robot control , etc., Advantech takes advantage of the new opportunities of integration of AI and the real economy to explore the application value of industry segments, and continuously brings broader perception, cognition and intelligent changes to various industries, allowing AI industry-oriented applications to be integrated into every scene around people.
Knowledge is easy and hard to do. Advantech considers the value of AI implementation in many aspects
opportunities often coexist with challenges. The integration of edge AI with thousands of industries is getting closer, and the difficulties and challenges are becoming more and more obvious.
Bao Zhiwei believes that although AI technology has spawned a large number of new products, new applications, and new models, innovative breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and industrial implementation are still important issues at this stage, and industrialization still has a long way to go. There are objective factors such as insufficient knowledge reserves of , fighting alone when seeing trees but not seeing forests, and facing complex environmental problems in implementation , which makes it difficult to implement, implement, and apply.
Just like the changes brought to society by electricity, if AI wants to have the ability to meet the large-scale application of the whole society, it is also indispensable for "generators", "high-voltage power grids" and power infrastructure that adapts to different industries.
"It is not just a simple algorithm evolution, but the implementation of the AI industry requires enterprises to have the ability to reserve and integrate knowledge in professional subdivided fields." Bao Zhiwei said that taking transportation applications as an example, license plates and vehicle identification are only a small part of the implementation of intelligent transportation. Enterprises also need a systematic and in-depth understanding of the transportation facilities, traffic regulations and other contents of their country or region in order to build a targeted overall solution.
's early knowledge reserves are indispensable, and the implementation of the overall solution requires the strong help of ecological partners. Bao Zhiwei emphasized that the current flat organizational structure is replacing the previous chain structure. In the implementation of AI in some industries, it is no longer appropriate for a single enterprise to fight alone. Only by building an ecological partner circle can AI be truly empowered.
Bao Zhiwei took the implementation of the intelligent warehousing solution as an example. He believes that from the various warehousing operations such as purchase, scanning codes, transmission, outbound, and replenishment, a single enterprise cannot meet the technical development and algorithm follow-up of all application links. It is necessary to cooperate with relevant enterprises in the smart warehousing ecosystem to achieve project implementation and application.
At the same time, Bao Zhiwei pointed out that the industrialization of AI is a ever-changing complex project, which needs to be adapted to the depth of industrial application scenarios and , and needs to adapt to the environmental requirements in application scenarios. For example, in intelligent traffic scenarios such as highways, the network environment requirements are high, but in reality, this requirement cannot be met in remote areas.
combines differentiation advantages Advantech accelerates the implementation of software and hardware technology
In the current increasingly complex application environment, AI needs leading companies that understand business and leading companies that understand technology to discuss and run in together to establish a final solution to meet the needs of the industry.
Advantech responds to changes in the same way as the accelerator for promoting intelligent transformation in the industry.
- In the hardware field, , whether in the selection of processors or chip secondary development, and acceleration modules Advantech is not sluggish in its choice. By cooperating with Intel, Nvidia and Huawei to achieve rapid iteration and deployment of AI acceleration modules, and maximize value through the combination of different hardware products under the comprehensive consideration of factors.
- in software , Advantech focuses on selecting independent software developers with unique advantages in professional fields. On the one hand, it realizes that it can build unique technical barriers, and on the other hand, it meets the customized requirements of more professional users. Of course, this is also related to Advantech's advocacy of "specializes in technology" and only chooses its own advantages. In-depth research is related to the fields of in-depth research.
At the same time, Advantech cooperates with independent software developers in a certain region . When the business matures, with the help of Advantech's global business expansion, it can realize the general regionalization of software development applications in professional fields, and bring value to its partners to maximize the expansion of technology research and development.
As more segmented application scenarios continue to be implemented, industry intelligence can be not only in the early stage construction , the importance of later operation and maintenance is increasing day by day. Bao Zhiwei introduced that Advantech has in-depth cooperation with software developers that cooperate with Nvidia and imported the jointly developed software into Advantech DeviceOn system platform to realize remote collaborative management and maintenance. Advantech also cooperates with world-renowned data and device security companies to achieve all-round protection of system data and information resources, helping end users to manage and maintain the system more easily.
creates a win-win situation Advantech has built a marginal AI mesh value ecosystem
Advantech has always shaped itself as a partner of system integrators in the process of empowering industrial transformation, and has created industrial development by seeking cooperation.
Now in the edge AI industry, Advantech's own positioning has not changed, but the industry's value chain is quietly transforming. Bao Zhiwei said that in the past, in the chain architecture, from equipment vendors to integrators, business service providers and end users was an upstream and downstream relationship, and business relationships rarely occurred across each other.However, in the construction of some large-scale projects, end users often need to cooperate with multiple parties to achieve their customized and personalized needs. Especially with the continuous improvement of business synergy, the chain structure is no longer suitable, and the mesh value ecosystem is gradually forming.
Advantech has joined hands with core enterprises on the upstream chip side to strengthen cooperation with independent software developers in the business field, continuously extending its business with system integrators, gradually building an edge AI mesh value ecosystem with itself as its core, and playing a key role in the process of serving the end user.
"With the current application of AI segments continues to emerge, correspondingly, many startups with certain technological advantages have emerged in these fields." Bao Zhiwei particularly emphasized that although these companies have technological advantages, their AI implementation or engineering capabilities are lacking.
Through various cooperation methods, Advantech has led the new AI companies in business models and implementation capabilities through the "hens and chickens" model to help them achieve sustainable development.
