Lanner Electronics announced a new collaboration with Intel to launch the Edge AI Starter Kit for industrial automation.

The company is coupling its edge AI appliance with Intel Edge Insights for industrial. Lanner’s Edge AI Starter Kit delivers a platform that is composed of a high-speed camera, Intel CPU and VPU hardware, and application-tailored software to accelerate time-to-market AI deployments at the industrial edge.

The kit is powered by the LEC-2290, and edge compute platform. LEC-2290 is a fanless Edge AI Computer that is designed for hard environments, which may enable compute intensive applications for industrial edge AI.

Edge Insights from Intel is an open, and modular, product validated software that aggregates and processes time series, and image/video data to gain insights through edge analytics

Per a company press release, through Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, Intel Edge Insights for Industrial accelerates development, enabling quick integrations of pre-trained models (e.g., Tensorflow, Caffe, etc.) for object recognition, classification, and facial recognition in vision-based solutions. 

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