UAE-based IoT development company Disrupt-X is working with Intel to launch a bundle of AI-based analytics cloud platform offerings including one for analysing classroom performance.

The firm will launch the Cognitive Neurons IoT platform using Intel’s OpenVino at next month’s Gitex show in Dubai.

Disrupt-X aims to leverage the power of IoT and artificial intelligence to offer its customers data analysis at a price to make RoI on IoT for facility management and corporates realistic.

Smart ANPR, its first offering under Cognitive Neurons, targets community and residential compounds where parking management is a hassle. Building owners can conveniently monitor their parking spaces, view analytics, generate reports and customise alerts while residents and tenants will be able to generate visitor accesses conveniently. This comes at pricing starting at US$14/month with built-in data sets of GCC, Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.

Edu-bot, the second product, will target schools and educational institutes. This aims to analyse the student and teacher interaction in classrooms. It will be able to evaluate concentration levels of students during each course, their emotional levels and perhaps determine if a child is autistic. Furthermore, analysis can be performed on teachers as well to determine how well they are interacting with the students.

“The need for intelligence on edge devices has never been greater,” said Adib Rajji, public sector manager for Intel. “As deep learning approaches rapidly and replaces more traditional computer vision techniques, businesses can unlock rich data from digital video. This collaboration with Disrupt-X for implementing vision-based AI systems to collect and analyse data right on edge devices for real-time decision-making will offer advanced edge computing capabilities to help cut costs, drive new revenue streams and improve services. The OpenVino toolkit is designed to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision and deep learning inference applications at the edge.”

Asim Sajwani, president of Disrupt-X, added: “We strongly feel the video analytics’ current market is being used for traditional solutions while not benefiting real life. Using deep learning to improve on AI-based solutions, which can offer real-time analytics to customers, is our goal. Intel OpenVino is helping us making edge analytics from digital video into innovations which will surely help educational and facility management industries.”

Gitex runs from October 17 to 21 in Dubai, where other offerings from the company will be on display including indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring, pool and water tank monitoring, smart padlocks, smart parking, intrusion alarms, and green mobility such as e-scooters, e-bikes and cycles.