Open Edge Platform
An Intel-based, partner-enabled, secure, optimized open platform for the edge to accelerate solution development
Modular and Optimized Edge Software Stack
Capabilities Highlights
- Composable ingredients for building production-quality multimodal edge AI apps, along with user-friendly workflows for optimizing and deploying models.
- Onboarding, provisioning, and management of edge devices and edge node software, along with orchestration of AI applications and clusters at scale.
- Quickly showcase the performance and features of Intel® hardware for AI at the edge, along with our strategic technology partners.
Solve the Biggest Challenges at the Edge
Build and Deploy Solutions More Efficiently
Streamline edge solution development and deployment with automation and standard hardware. With the Open Edge Platform, you can achieve working solutions that connect and optimize with minimal effort.
AI Inferencing Optimized for the Edge
Deliver compelling application performance for edge-to-cloud implementations. The Open Edge Platform offers built-in AI runtime optimizations for OpenVINO™ toolkit AI that enable efficient AI inferencing on a wide spectrum of edge hardware.
Infrastructure and Solution Management at Scale
Build infrastructure solutions with Open Edge Platform to securely onboard and manage fleets of edge nodes more efficiently and with lower total cost of ownership. It also allows you to ease operations with dynamic application deployment, near-zero touch provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management of edge infrastructure and applications.
Edge AI Suites
Accelerate your solution development and optimization with industry-specific Edge AI Suites.
Retail AI Suite
This suite is an open source application framework designed to accelerate AI workload evaluation and hardware selection for point-of-sale use cases at the edge. This framework helps retailers assess device configurations across Intel product generations to enhance decision-making and reduce the total cost of ownership.
It includes sample applications for use cases such as:
Self Checkout
- Product recognition (detection, classification, and tracking)
- Full pipeline (product, weight, text, and barcode)
- Age verification
Loss Prevention
- Fake scans
- Items in the basket
- Multiproduct identification
- Product switching
- Shopper behavior (hiding items)
- Event video summarization
Manufacturing AI Suite
This suite is a powerful toolkit for building and scaling AI in industrial environments. The suite simplifies real-time AI development and deployment by using Edge AI technology from Intel.
It supports predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, quality inspection, worker safety, and more. Developers benefit from tools like IoT protocol support, AI analytics libraries, multicamera system software, and closed-loop AI pipelines. Benchmarking resources help evaluate performance across time series, vision, and GenAI use cases.
Sample applications enabled by Manufacturing AI Suite include:
- Predictive maintenance
- Process optimization
- Anomaly detection
- Quality inspection
- Worker safety
- Vision-guided robots
- Operational diagnostics
Metro AI Suite
This suite is an application framework with libraries, tools, and reference implementations, enabling partners to create AI solutions in the video safety and security, transportation, and government edge markets.
Some of the Metro AI Suite components include:
AI Apps for any Intel-Based Edge System
- Advanced video search
- Video summarization
- Natural language search
- Intersection management
- Live video stream analysis
- “Live” avatar interaction
- Smart parking
- Smart tolling
Benchmarks for Real-World Scenarios
- Benchmarking specifications on Intel® AI Edge Systems
- Platform sizing tool
Tools and Software for AI Acceleration
- AI inference optimization
- Visual and deep learning optimization
- Media processing acceleration
- Edge server video analytics
- Arm* technology to Intel technology conversion
- Sensor fusion-enabled traffic management
Media & Entertainment AI Suite
This suite is a cloud-native vertical software suite built on the Open Edge Platform and consists of microservices and pipelines that support high-value use cases. This suite uses Intel and open source AI libraries and frameworks (for example, enterprise AI frameworks and OpenVINO toolkit).
It includes sample applications for use cases such as:
- Video Super Resolution (VSR)
- Video bitrate optimization (SmoothVideo Project [SVP])
Edge AI Libraries
Composable ingredients for building production-quality multimodal edge AI apps, along with user-friendly workflows for optimizing and deploying models.
- Build edge AI applications and use cases that include vision AI, generative AI (GenAI), and time series AI capabilities.
- Get reusable building blocks, with benchmarks, optimized to run performantly on Intel hardware.
- Shorten app development time and simplify model fine-tuning, retraining, and deployment workflows.
Edge Manageability Framework
Onboarding, provisioning, and management of edge devices and edge node software, along with orchestration of AI applications and clusters at scale, using optimized Kubernetes* for the edge.
Zero touch provides increased operational efficiency for enterprises due to reduced cost of truck rolling.
Centralized rapid provisioning and operating system maintenance across distributed devices at scale.
Multitenant centralized management with an encrypt-everywhere security model with single sign-on.
Built-in deep, unique telemetry and observability to drive maintenance planning and automation.
Edge Microvisor Toolkit
Edge Microvisor Toolkit is an open source, edge-optimized, low-footprint, immutable container host that runs modern AI workloads and quickly showcases the performance and features of Intel hardware for AI at the edge, along with our strategic technology partners.
- Immutable Host: A/B updates ensures operational repeatability, reliability, and auditability at scale.
- Partner Ready: Built with all the latest kernel optimizations for easier integration by operating system vendor partners.
- Secure: Trusted compute, single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), secure boot, full disk encryption (FDE), and DM-Verity protect the hypervisor, apps, and data.
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