Advantech Pushes Industrial Vision AI Closer to Real-Time Decision-Making

Advantech is taking aim at the next stage of industrial machine vision. It will be done with a new portfolio of edge AI platforms built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075 processor. The company says the solutions can deliver up to 100 TOPS of AI performance. This can support as many as 16 cameras simultaneously. Also, it can help in targeting robotics, factory automation and smart surveillance.

The announcement includes the AOM-6741 SMARC module, ASR-A503/AFE-A503 robotic controllers and AIR-055 edge AI system. Rather than simply capturing and classifying images, Advantech is positioning these platforms for what it calls “vision intelligence”, enabling machines to interpret visual information and respond with low latency at the edge.

At the heart of the platforms is Qualcomm’s IQ-9075, which combines an image signal processor, video processing unit and neural processing unit with interfaces including MIPI-CSI, USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. Advantech says the architecture can handle workloads such as object detection, tracking and optical character recognition while supporting multi-camera deployments. The processor also combines an eight-core Arm-based CPU with a real-time microcontroller subsystem, aimed at applications where AI inference needs to work alongside time-sensitive machine control.