Taiwan-based embedded flash and DRAM storage specialist Innodisk is transforming itself into an AIoT solutions provider. The company is developing AIoT products, combining AI with IoT, initially aimed at the retail, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.

The company is working on hardware-software integration to develop Innodisk AI technology, including AI platforms, AI machine vision accelerator FPGA platform, embedded camera modules, and self-developed iVIT SDK and iCAP Cloud management platform for accelerating AI deployment. The company’s AIoT solutions will also integrate technologies from its subsidiary, Aetina Corporation, as well as its eco-system partners.

The company is focusing its initial AIoT push on the manufacturing, transportation, and retail sectors. It has develop products that include license plate recognition powered by machine vision, AI models for smart manufacturing to ensure operator safety, AI-based smart retail for food safety, and its iCAP cloud management platform for AI implementation and edge device management for EV charging operation.

The company’s smart retail sushi train food safety solution employs Innodisk’s AI platform as the accelerator. The solution adopts iVIT, a no-code programming tool for simplifying AI training, to create vision identification models and uses embedded cameras onsite to detect abnormal diner behaviours and optimise checkout efficiency by plate counting.

Innodisk has also developed new industrial-grade storage and memory solutions to support AIoT, including the PCIe 5.0 SSD reaching 13GB/s, high DWPD AI edge server SSD, a PCIe 4.0 nano SSD, DDR5-5600 memory lineup with capacity of 48GB, and the DDR5 module capable of operating between -40°C to 105°C.