Idein and CTC Advance Edge AI for Factory Floors

Idein, the company behind Actcast and the one that has been leading Japans edge AI platform space for four straight years, has locked in a business partnership with Itochu Techno Solutions. The two are building edge AI solutions aimed straight at manufacturing. The goal is simple. Cut the ops load on factory teams and tighten security by managing IoT devices remotely and actually using on site data instead of letting it sit in silos.

Manufacturing has already drifted toward IoT because small general purpose devices that pair with AI cameras and sensors got cheap. The problem is the usual mess. Each department or plant handles devices in its own way. Security settings are all over the place. Software updates slip through the cracks. And even when factories collect data from sensors, linking that data to real improvement work does not happen consistently.

The joint solution blends Actcast with CTCs data utilization service D Native. The idea is to make factory data easier to use and safer to manage.

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Actcast handles the ground level stuff. Factories can centrally manage devices like Raspberry Pi scattered across lines and floors. You can change configurations remotely, push software updates, and keep security tight without babysitting each device. D Native picks up the data side by storing, visualizing, and analyzing sensor inputs like temperature, humidity, size, weight, and energy use. That helps teams spot quality drifts or abnormal patterns early and fix issues before they spread.

They also plan to make it easier to build custom apps on Raspberry Pi so factories can speed up manual work or automate quality inspections. CTC can jump in on app development too so frontline teams are not left hanging.

Both companies already built a bunch of things together. Edge AI setups for analyzing camera footage in retail and manufacturing. A body temperature detection device using general purpose IoT hardware. Now they want to push further into edge computing for sensing and AI that can help control industrial robots like painting and assembly machines. The bigger picture is to drive digital transformation for manufacturing customers.

A quick snapshot of Actcast. It is built for AI solution developers. The infrastructure provided to them allows the vast, speedy, and budget-friendly deployment of AI systems that make use of cameras, microphones, and other sensing devices.

Some key points about Actcast:

• Cameras, microphones, thermometers, and other sensors can draw and utilize nearly all the real-world data available.
• It allows groups to take control of and manage remotely large fleets of devices.
• It already has more than sixteen thousand registered devices out in the field.
• It has a network of over one hundred seventy partner companies.
• It only sends the minimum needed data to the cloud so privacy and confidentiality stay intact.
• It runs advanced AI workloads on small, affordable devices.
• And Ideins own acceleration tech lets them run high end AI models without cutting them down.