Advantech to Release NVIDIA IGX Orin Platforms in 2023 Q4 to Accelerate AI Deployment in Healthcare and Industrial Applications
5/29/2023
Advantech, a leading provider of AI platforms, has collaborated with NVIDIA and developed server-grade edge AI platforms based on NVIDIA IGX Orin™. Aiming at industrial and medical environments that require higher levels of performance, durability and security, Advantech provides NVIDIA IGX Orin AI platforms, its MIC-IO series systems, as well as customized design service for various demands. This allows companies to focus on application development and realize the benefits of AI faster.
NVIDIA IGX Orin for Low Latency, Network Security, and Functional Safety
NVIDIA IGX Orin is unique in its ability to deliver functional safety, manageability, and security without compromising any of its ultra-fast processing performance – all within the size and power envelope needed for the edge.
IGX Orin is powered by the world’s most powerful AI computer for energy-efficient autonomous machines with 248 tera operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance. It includes an NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 smart network interface card (SmartNIC) with two 100 Gb/s networking ports capable of delivering 1,000 video frames per second, making it ideal for securely ingesting intensive video raw data throughput.
IGX Orin also has a safety microcontroller unit (sMCU)—a critical safety feature that uses several different techniques to prevent and detect random and systematic hardware errors—built into the board design and that can be programmed into the IGX software stack. These capabilities allow organizations to add functional safety into environments where humans and robots work together. IGX also includes a baseboard management controller (BMC) and software stack for remote system management like over-the-air (OTA) for OS updates and out-of-band (OOB) for large-scale deployment.
Next Generation Medical-Grade Edge AI Systems for AI Deployment in Medical Device
MIC-735M-IO is a medical-grade, small tower edge AI system (192 x 376.7 x 338.5 mm). Embedded with NVIDIA IGX Orin, MIC-735M-IO also supports 1 x PCIe x16 slot for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 graphics card. With the powerful visual computing support from NVIDIA RTX A6000, MIC-735M-IO is the optimized medical system for AI analytics, real-time image processing and rendering.
MIC-735M-IO offers the NVIDIA IGX software stack with 10-year support as well as documentation to support medical certifications (IEC 60601, 62304). Both platforms can run NVIDIA Holoscan to improve developer productivity with real-time AI processing, and MONAI for training deep learning models for medical AI workflows. Developers can build pipelines for sensor data processing that meet latency requirements and scale from the data center to the edge. With Holoscan, MIC-735M-IO is a total solution for developing hardware and software that utilizes AI to improve endoscopy procedures. It provides enhanced visualization and automatic anomaly detection to help doctors perform endoscopies more effectively with extremely low latency.
High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Systems for the Industrial Edge
Advantech provides MIC-735E-IO and MIC-735I-IO for industrial applications. With great thermal design and installation flexibility, MIC-735E-IO and MIC-735I-IO are the best platforms for high-performance AI computing in proactive and reactive functional safety and human-to-machine collaboration applications.
MIC-735E-IO is a tower system (267.1 x 458 x 500 mm) with 2 cooling fans in front. MIC-735I-IO is the 4U rackmount system (438 x 177 x 450 mm) with 3 cooling fan. Both systems have industrial-grade design on vibration and shock. They each support 1 x PCle Gen5 double width slot (x16) and up to a 1200W power supply for further expansion including GPU cards.
Both systems are compatible with the NVIDIA Metropolis platform, which helps developers optimally build, deploy, and scale AI-enabled video analytics and IoT applications from the edge to the cloud.
Not only for standard products, with 40 years of industrial design expertise, Advantech provides full lifecycle service and offers customized Design Manufacture Service (DMS) solutions in NVIDIA IGX Orin platforms for our clients.
Advantech MIC-IO series are NVIDIA IGX Orin-powered platforms that allow developers to easily combine hardware, software and support to deliver high performance, low-latency response, data safety and strong security to deploy AI to the edge in healthcare and industrial applications. Advantech’s systems based on NVIDIA IGX Orin modules will be released in Q4 2023. For more information, please visit Advantech website or contact your Advantech sales team.