Intelligent Industrial Vision

Overview

Manufacturers are under pressure to improve quality, uptime, and safety while reducing reliance on cloud connectivity and centralized analytics. Traditional factory AI solutions often suffer from latency, data privacy concerns, and brittle network dependencies. 


The Intelligent Industrial Vision application is designed as a fully edge-native AI architecture where vision, sensor analytics, and generative AI run locally on industrial-grade hardware. Using Qualcomm Dragonwing™ industrial processors, Edge Impulse, and other partner offerings, the solution is developed to deliver real-time insights, operator interaction, and scalable factory intelligence without requiring cloud inference.

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Benefits

This application is designed to:

Enable sub‑50 ms insights for vision and sensor analytics with on‑device AI execution

Minimize operational risk by removing cloud dependencies from safety‑critical workflows

Increase yield and product quality with continuous, real‑time defect detection 

Maximize equipment uptime through early fault identification from time‑series data

Streamline operations with a unified AI experience across factory, control center, and HMI

Protect data and ensure compliance with privacy-focused AI processing fully contained on edge devices

Use Cases

Inspection

Visual defect detection of products on conveyor lines.

Safety

PPE compliance, keep‑out zone enforcement, and worker authentication.

Maintenance

Fault and anomaly detection using vibration and current sensors

Operations

AI‑powered factory assistant for diagnostics, procedures, and analytics.

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Partner Hardware

The Imaging Source GigE Vision Cameras

Industrial-grade, low-latency imaging for synchronized inspection workflows

Software Stack

Base OS / platform image: Linux-based industrial OS on Dragonwing platforms 

GenAI: Local LLM with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI Development: Edge Impulse Studio (data ingestion, training, tuning, deployment) 

Application Framework: Qt (UI framework, application logic, 3D engine) 

Inference: Edge Impulse runtime optimized Dragonwing accelerators

Messaging / Integration: Local MQTT and IPC

Vision Language AI Model: Dragonwing Visual Inspection Suite

Software Stack

OS / BSP: Linux‑based industrial OS on Dragonwing platforms

Inference:  Edge Impulse runtime optimized for Dragonwing accelerators 

GenAI:  Local LLM with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) 

Application Framework:  Qt (UI framework, application logic, 3D engine) 

Messaging / Integration:  Local MQTT and IPC 

AI Development: Edge Impulse Studio (data ingestion, training, tuning, deployment) 

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