By Dan Demers, congatec Industrial edge server designs must be flexible to perform diverse tasks. Increasingly, virtual machines are used to consolidate a variety of Industry 4.0 workloads. In addition, Computer-on-Modules offer the flexibility to scale the computing power to fit the application, enabling application-specific price and performance balancing next to load balancing. Workload consolidation,…
A solution for the visual inspection data problem — less is more
The problem with data at the factory floor is that conditions constantly change. Sparse Modeling, an AI approach recently evolved from the academic space, may solve this problem as it needs only a small data set. One benefit—it works on ultra-low power embedded computing platforms. By Dan Demers, Director, Sales & Marketing, congatec Americas Artificial…