As cities, retailers, and transportation systems become increasingly data-driven, real-time analytics are playing a critical role in improving safety, efficiency, and decision-making at scale.

Modern vision AI solutions must deliver actionable insights while upholding privacy without sacrificing performance. This requires high-speed, low-latency AI inference that can run efficiently across everything from small form factor edge devices to high-performance computing systems.

AI at the edge can be unpredictable. Today’s modern edge AI systems are tasked with providing advanced processing, versatile expansion and connectivity, and stable operation in some of the most challenging environments.

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AI person tracking is a next-generation technology deployed in stadiums, enterprise HQs, retail spaces, and factories to provide high-level information for site safety and data security.

Technologies like this are designed to help operators save time and collect data to locate individuals, trace past movements, and generate instant reports.

Crowd behavior and movements can be unpredictable. It’s important that areas that host large quantities of people, such as stadiums, concert venues, and convention centers, are capable of keeping individuals safe in real-time with high-performance analytics.

One of the toughest challenges with solving predictive maintenance, enabled by AI, is that there is usually no data available for training the system. Modern equipment may not break down for 5 years or more so there is insufficient data when the product is first launched on when and how it will break down. But AI systems using traditional methods such as Deep Learning can only operate when sufficiently large volumes of data are available for training the system and hence, they are incapable of addressing this problem.

One of the most impactful areas for businesses to deploy AI is in digital signage. AI-driven digital can deliver personalized content, respond instantly to changing conditions, and make every interaction more meaningful. A challenge that comes with deploying this kind of AI-powered digital signage is ensuring the content is flexible enough to adapt to different display sizes or settings, or to simplify the content so it can fit any display.