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An embedded vision development kit and two add-on camera kits with Basler’s BCON for MIPI interface powered by Nvidia Jetson have been added to the Basler portfolio.

Jetson is the AI platform for autonomous machines and Basler is a preferred partner for Nvidia.

Image processing for today’s AI at the edge applications in robotics, logistics, smart retail, smart factories, and smart cities requires high computing power. The compute and energy efficiency advantages of the Nvidia Jetson platform and Basler’s vision expertise are combined for use in automatic optical inspection and intelligent video analytics.

The Embedded Vision Development Kit, includes the Jetson Nano developer kit, and comes with a Basler dart BCON for MIPI camera with a 13 Mpixel, S-mount lens, an adapter board specifically developed for the Jetson Nano module and accessories. Basler has also integrated a new camera driver and sample reference applications to provide developers with a ready-to-use development package for edge AI use cases.

The two add-on camera kits provide the appropriate vision extension for developers already working with a Jetson Nano processor board. The kits contain either a 5 Mpixel or a 13 Mpixel Basler dart BCON for MIPI camera with S-mount lens, an adapter board and accessories. The required driver packages and the Basler pylon software development kit are available for download.

“With the Basler vision kits for the Jetson Nano, developers get an integrated, easy to use solution for vision-based embedded applications in robotics, manufacturing and industrial IoT,” said Murali Gopalakrishna, head of product management for autonomous machines at Nvidia. “Basler’s ongoing support for the Nvidid Jetson platform brings a wealth of experience in industrial cameras into our partner ecosystem,” he added.

Nvidia Jetson has support for cloud-native technologies, enabling manufacturers of intelligent machines and developers of AI applicationsto build and deploy high-quality, software-defined features on embedded and edge devices targeting robotics, smart cities, healthcare, industrial IoT and more, says Basler. Cloud-native support helps manufacturers and developers implement frequent improvements, improve accuracy, and use the latest features with Jetson-based AI edge devices.

A further add-on camera kit for the recently released Jetson Xavier NX is under development. Additional camera kits for Jetson TX2 and AGX Xavier will follow by Q3/2020, added Basler. The company is also developing an embedded vision system with access to cloud services based on a Jetson Nano due to its specific suitability for AI computing tasks on edge devices. This software solution, which extends embedded vision development kits with machine-learning application software, will also be available by Q3/2020.

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To increase the capability of surveillance systems with the use of intelligent edge computing, Aaeon’s UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance kit provides the technology needed to power smart surveillance systems, such as surveillance cameras that analyse traffic using heat maps or automated control.

Smart surveillance adds intelligent processing of data that is already being gathered to analyse traffic with heat maps, monitor areas with virtual fences, or react to data in other ways to allow for automated control or alerting staff on premises.

Aaeon’s partners include Intel, Milestone and Saimos. The kit works as an AI-enabled network video recorder (NVR), for example to monitor video streams supporting up to 32 cameras simultaneously, using the Intel Core i7 model with Milestone XProtect Express+, explained Aaeon.

UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance integrates video management software (VMS) from Milestone with video analytic software from Saimos, then adding a deep learning AI edge inference through the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit. The combined package saves deployment time and cost for end users, as well as overcoming challenges such as storage issues, said Aaeon. The AI inference is also accelerated with two Intel Movidius Myriad X VPUs, helping provide even more power alongside the 8th Generation Intel Core processor supplied with the UP Xtreme system.

“UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance offers video analytics combined with a modern video management system, integrating everything into a one-box solutions which can be deployed with both new or existing infrastructure,” said Jürgen Konetschnig, CTO of Saimos. “The hardware and software are integrated to make deployment of smart surveillance applications easier and simpler for users in any field,” he added.

The Boxer-8130AI can be integrated into any environment, said Aaeon. It has six MIPI CSI-2 interfaces, to support up to six MIPI cameras. For easy maintenance it has an SD Card slot, USB OTG, remote on/off and almost all of its I/O ports together on one side. The Boxer-8130AI also features two antenna ports, for mobile or AI of thing (AIoT) gateway applications.

Once installed, UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance provides intuitive analytic parameter settings to provide a comprehensive overview of the surveillance system, said the company. UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance supports people or object counting, heat mapping, virtual fence and perimeter protection, dynamic blurring and object detection functions. It uses data analytics and edge computing to provide real time analysis, and can provide proactive measures through alerting relevant staff as soon as an incident is detected.

UP Xtreme Smart Surveillance is scalable in terms of both the number of cameras to AI acceleration.

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