AIoT specialist SmartCow is partnering GPU and hardware-assisted AI specialist PNY Technologies to develop and market AI smart city services and edge computing throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

Through the partnership, PNY will gain access to smart city infrastructure and AI applications and hardware from SmartCow. This will help PNY strengthen its position as a provider of high performance smart city AI solutions.

SmartCow’s solutions for smart cities includes its AI-enabled SmartCam, the Apollo AI development kit, and its CityStation smart city platform.

SmartCam is an AI-enabled camera that provides object detection, sensor fusion, traffic analysis, and trajectory tracing algorithms. Based on the NVIDIA Metropolis software, SmartCam can be deployed indoors or outdoors to identify particular categories of objects, such as firearms, and for monitoring road traffic.

Apollo is an AI development kit designed to allows developers to create conversational edge computing applications. It features the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX GPU, which includes several SDKs such as Embedded Riva, JetPack and DeepStream.

CityStation is an AIoT platform for smart city applications that can monitor air quality, weather conditions, traffic, face and object recognition and security investigations (forensics). The device allows a large amount of data to be collected in the city by combining camera and software (data is displayed in a dashboard).

“Small and large urban cities are changing, giving way to smart cities. Finding a suitable partner to support the networking for all our smart cities projects is mission-critical for executing this type of work at scale,” said Jérôme Bélan, CEO at PNY Technologies. “In practice, smart city implementation is complicated and demands certain requirements. SmartCow immediately stood out as the best partner given its rich experience in building smart city applications, with expertise in both hardware and software. Working with its technologies leveraging both 5G and edge computing will provide us with an optimal network and real-time interconnectivity between urban elements, individuals, connected objects and public authorities, enabling us to bring our developments to life to benefit cities across the globe.”

“SmartCow’s mission is to develop an ever-growing AIoT ecosystem that simplifies and improves the lives and work of individuals and organisations around the world,” said Ravi Kiran, CEO and founder of SmartCow. “Technology can multiply possibilities and deliver solutions that benefit everyone. “We are excited to be developing additional AI projects and building more smart cities for our clients, alongside the PNY team. Our AI algorithms, intelligence systems and resulting insights help PNY customers make informed decisions and build systems that enable productive, useful, safe and healthy lifestyles.”