With the AI Vision Solution Kit, Basler now offers a fully integrated development kit with cloud connectivity. It allows to test AI-based IoT applications on an optimized vision system and to access cloud services. The cloud connectivity makes it easy to load or train neural networks, for example. The AI Vision Solution Kit reduces the complexity and need for expert knowledge of embedded hardware and software technology significantly. The system thus offers developers a new and efficient approach for rapid prototyping.
Basler further expands the solution approach of its AI Vision Solution Kit. For the launch of the two new AWS services AWS Panorama and Amazon Lookout for Vision, Basler is a selected "Device Partner" and was thus closely involved in the development process in advance. For embedded vision solutions with AI in IoT environments, the smooth interaction of software components is indispensable. The partnership with AWS contributes significantly to this.
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AWS Panorama is a ML-based software development kit (SDK) for "on-premise" image analysis. Data collected locally in this way allows predictions with high accuracy and low latency. This is what Arndt Bake, Chief Marketing Officer, has to say about the collaboration with AWS and the new service AWS Panorama: “Basler is looking forward to continuing our technology collaborations in machine learning with AWS in 2021. We will be expanding our solution portfolio to include AWS Panorama to allow customers to develop AI-based IoT applications on an optimized vision system from the edge to the cloud. We will be integrating AWS Panorama with our AI Vision Solution Kit, reducing the complexity and need for additional expertise in embedded hardware and software components, providing developers with a new and efficient approach to rapid prototyping, and enabling them to leverage the ecosystem of AWS Panorama computer vision application providers and systems integrators." |
Amazon Lookout for Vision is a machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations using computer vision. Gerrit Fischer, Head of Marketing, also sees the intensive dialog between AWS and Basler as an important step and ultimately as a valuable customer benefit: “Many enterprises primarily rely on human inspectors to identify hundreds of different types of defects. With an estimated 1 trillion manufactured objects requiring inspection every year, scaling quality without impacting productivity is an increasing challenge for customers. We’re excited to collaborate with AWS to extend Amazon Lookout for Vision to Basler’s portfolio of machine vision camera modules and edge platforms, combining Basler’s expertise in industrial vision with AWS’ investments in industrial AI.” |