Unlocking Smart Warehousing Potential with Portwell’s All-Around Edge AI System Featuring Hailo-8™ AI Accelerator
The rapid adoption of digital technologies is transforming traditional warehouses into smart facilities. This transformation optimizes inventory management, enhances operational efficiency, and boosts security. Smart warehousing incorporates advanced technologies like AI, IoT, and robotics to streamline workflows, enabling real-time decision-making, reducing human intervention and elevating operator safety. Consequently, these innovations drive the demand for robust, intelligent systems capable of handling complex tasks in AI-powered warehouses, such as automated sorting, real-time inventory tracking and management, and streamlined secure access control.
To meet the demands of smart warehouses, a computing device must deliver high processing power, seamless connectivity, and reliable real-time performance. Industrial PCs are fundamentally designed to tackle these demanding challenges. Moreover, features such as advanced AI capabilities, ruggedized designs for harsh environments, and comprehensive I/O options are essential, which industrial PCs are optimally built to fulfill. Additionally, an industrial PC can be purpose-built to empower secure access control solutions, including facial recognition technology, to enhance safety and monitor activities. A qualified industrial PC should combine performance, efficiency, durability and scalability to cater to the evolving market needs.
With continuous advancements in smart warehousing, Portwell’s edge AI industrial PC WEBS-45J1 embedded system stands out as a game-changer, particularly in access control and surveillance. The integration of the Hailo-8 AI module, delivering up to 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) with low power consumption, ensures effective AI computing power, enabling real-time facial recognition for secure, contactless authentication with energy efficiency. By providing immediate answers to questions like ‘Who accessed what and when?’ the WEBS-45J1 enhances safety protocols while streamlining warehouse operations. This capability not only reduces unauthorized access risks but also increases operational transparency.
With its rugged, fanless design and support for 14th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, the WEBS-45J1 delivers high reliability and performance in demanding warehouse environments. It supports up to 96GB DDR5 memory, ensuring smooth multitasking, while its multiple I/O options—including HDMI, USB, and GPIO—facilitate seamless integration with surveillance cameras, alarm systems, and monitoring displays. The integrated Intel® UHD Graphics 700 series provides robust visual processing power, supporting high-resolution displays and enhancing image recognition tasks. Additionally, the enhanced AI capabilities of the 14th Gen Intel Core processor series, including Intel® Deep Learning Boost (DL Boost) and Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI), accelerate the processing of deep learning algorithms and improve the efficiency of neural network computations, crucial for real-time facial recognition. This versatile system provides a holistic solution, enabling smart warehouses to reimagine security systems with real-time alerts and robust performance.
The Portwell WEBS-45J1 embedded system combines the high computing power and advanced AI features of the 14th Gen Intel Core processors with the exceptional AI capabilities of the Hailo-8 module. This synergy ensures efficient processing of complex computer vision tasks, real-time authentication, and secure access control. The powerful combination of these technologies facilitates safety protocols, prevents unauthorized access, and enhances operational transparency and efficiency, making the WEBS-45J1 an ideal solution for modern smart warehouses.
Portwell’s industrial PC WEBS-45J1 embedded system demonstrates its capability to meet the dynamic needs of smart warehousing by combining cutting-edge AI performance with rugged durability. Designed for demanding applications like facial recognition-based access control, it ensures secure, efficient, and scalable operations. As smart warehouses continue to evolve, the WEBS-45J1 serves as a vital tool for businesses striving to optimize workflows, enhance safety, and embrace the future of intelligent logistics. Portwell remains at the forefront of innovation, delivering solutions that empower industries worldwide to agilely adopt AI transformation.
