Blaize, the AI computing innovator revolutionising edge and automotive computing solutions, announced that Minds Lab of Seongnam, South Korea has extended its maum.ai “AI as a service (AlaaS)” cloud service to the Edge running on Blaize Xplorer X1600P PCIe accelerator platform and utilising the Blaize AI Software Suite. The Maum Edge AI Platform combines Edge AI Devices and Maum AI Cloud to improve and expand services with greater usability and expandability. Minds Lab is using Blaize initially for its “Edge AI Road,” “Edge AI Street” and “Edge AI Home” services, all of which are AI-based CCTV enabled.
“The artificial intelligence CCTV applied with Minds Lab’s Edge AI is highly effective in monitoring objects and analysing data efficiently and quickly”, said Dr Hoon Paek, CTO, Minds Lab. “Based on the Blaize edge AI hardware, we plan to combine Minds Lab’s unique AI technology to provide full-scale services to the Edge AI service platform market in Korea, the US and abroad.”
“The maum.ai service at the edge is an example of how Blaize hardware and software products deliver the right balance of performance with low power, low latency, and programmability to enable compute for breakthrough productisation of AI applications at the edge”, said Dinakar Munagala, CEO, Blaize. “Combined with the Minds Lab innovations, end users can access the power of affordable AI to enhance safety, security and convenience.”
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The Edge AI Road application provides traffic surveillance such as car and license plate detection and speed and lane infringements. Edge AI Street provides sidewalk and close to home surveillance concerning pedestrian traffic and unusual behaviours (such as break-ins) and Edge AI Home provides monitoring of various activities in public and private interior spaces.
The Maum.ai platform enables customers to download AI applications just like one would download an app for a mobile phone. Customers download an application from the Minds Lab AI cloud and install it on a network. They then register, activate, and adjust settings to perform various analytics via the Minds Lab cloud-based and real-time interface.
Minds Lab is recognised for its AI technology solutions built on Blaize edge AI hardware, such as Suwon City’s CCTV video data construction business solution that immediately informs controllers when abnormal behaviour such as assault or theft is detected. In particular, the Minds Lab AI-enabled CCTV service in Suwon City met strict performance verification through the Korea Data Agency (KISA) in recognising the behaviour of wandering, intrusion, and collapse.
