Alecs Enables AI at the Edge
So you need a machine vision system. This will involve integrating a high-quality image sensor, a lens, lighting, enclosures, cabling, a PC, a frame grabber in the PC, likely a GPU for real-time processing, and software to make it all run. Ugh. Help! You call Alex, your handy engineer.
Fast forward a few weeks — after you’ve waited for parts to arrive and waited many days for Alex to integrate everything together. Now you have your camera and computer integrated! But someone forgot to mention: The system needs to be on a factory floor and IP67-rated. An IP67 PC with AI capabilities? Not a chance. Now you need long cables and a server in a separate room. Time to call financing to help pay for it and the facility manager to make room. No one is happy.
Alecs Can Help
Then Alex found Alecs. Who is Alecs? Not who — what. Alecs is an open smart camera from Allied Vision. It integrates Allied’s popular Alvium camera platform, an NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ NX 16 GB system on module (SoM), a C-mount lens, lighting, and I/O in a robust IP67 enclosure that can operate at –20° to 65°C. Alecs is offered in a 5 MP model (Sony IMX548, 81 fps) and a 12 MP model (Sony IMX545, 40 fps), available in color or monochrome. With Alecs, you’ll see what is going on and quantify your process with clarity.
Alecs is compatible with Open eVision image analysis libraries from Euresys and has enough computational power to develop and deploy sophisticated software and AI algorithms. The finance and facilities teams love Alex because of Alecs, and production is at full speed.
Why Open and How Smart?
Why choose an open smart camera instead of a purpose-built closed smart camera? Open smart cameras are flexible and can evolve and grow along with the rapid advances in AI. Take advantage of AI and explore what it can do with ChatGPT, TensorFlow, Pytorch, OpenCV, and Grok. (Okay, maybe not Grok . . . yet.) Joking aside, Alecs offers a powerful, compact hardware platform with a comprehensive board support package that you can customize with your own software. Its Linux-based foundation allows users to develop and deploy their own applications in one compact but powerful package.
How smart is it? Alecs has massive muscles: a Jetson Orin NX with 1,024 CUDA cores, eight CPUs, two deep learning accelerators, 16 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of NVMe storage. Oh my! Go ahead and dream big. These features were integrated into this camera with a specific goal: to provide the flexibility and processing power needed to deploy your own applications while accelerating the design-in process.
What level of intelligence and how much flexibility do you need for your application? Go ahead and aim high with ChatGPT (or even Grok!), and it will automagically turn into a smart camera! Well, not yet. But the engineers at Concurrent EDA can, and at full frame rate! Contact us for sales and engineering support to see what the Alecs open smart camera can do for you!
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