Advantech partners with Edge Impulse to expand edge AI tools

Focusing on the rapid expansion of edge AI applications and the diverse needs of market use cases.

Advantech, a provider of IoT systems and embedded platforms, announced a collaboration with Edge Impulse Inc., a Qualcomm company specializing in edge AI development tools. The partnership, introduced by Miller Chang, president of Advantech’s Embedded Sector, and Zach Shelby, vice president of product management at Qualcomm Finland RFFE Oy, during Edge Impulse’s Imagine event in California, will integrate Edge Impulse’s AI development tools with Advantech’s edge computing platforms. The goal is to simplify AI development and help enterprises build, deploy, and scale AI projects at the edge more efficiently.

Miller Chang, President of Advantech Embedded Sector (left), and Zach Shelby, VP, Product Management, Qualcomm Finland RFFE Oy (right), announced plans for a strategic collaboration to accelerate edge AI development.

Through this strategic collaboration, Edge Impulse tools are expected to be pre-integrated into Advantech’s various edge computing platforms, including AI industrial motherboards, AI inference systems, AI servers, industrial AI cameras, and development kit, to provide improved out-of-the-box developer experiences. With Advantech edge computing platform and the Edge Impulse platform, customers can complete workflows–from model training, optimization, deployment, to monitoring– in a streamlined fashion across Advantech’s edge AI offerings, saving time and resourcing. Advantech’s proven industrial form factors, multiple edge AI silicon options, combined with Edge Impulse’s modeling tools, would help customers accelerate prototyping, seamlessly scale to enterprise deployment, and lower AI development barriers.

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