The agriculture industry faces numerous challenges driven by environmental, economic, and social factors. Climate change is a major concern, causing unpredictable weather patterns, droughts, floods, and shifting growing seasons, which impact crop yields.

AI has made its mark on just about every aspect of our lives, from professional to consumer, from medical care to autonomous vehicles. Retail applications are certainly no exception.

The Olympics have arrived in Paris. For most, that’s a cause for celebration. But if your task is to monitor the flow of people, say for transportation needs, you likely have your hands full. The authorities who run the Paris Metro believe they are up to the task of effectively controlling the flow of people in and out of each subway car during the Olympics using a people-flow monitoring system. Such a system provides real-time people flow guidance information.

Using machine vision, an embedded computer can interpret and understand visual information from various inputs, including cameras and other sensors. In an industrial setting, this information is combined with image-processing algorithms to help make informed and extremely valuable decisions.

Automated optical inspection (AOI) is a quality-control process used by manufacturers to detect and identify defects in products. It plays a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of quality control, reducing the likelihood of defects reaching the end consumer.

Smart factories are fairly new concepts, but have evolved more in the last decade than in the 50 years prior. First, a smart factory is an advanced manufacturing facility that employs cutting-edge technologies such as the IoT, AI, and automation to optimize the entire production process.

Machine vision, sometimes referred to as computer vision, is a subset AI that lets computers interpret and understand visual information from the world. It involves algorithms and systems that allow machines to "see" and comprehend images or videos, similar to how humans perceive and understand the visual world.