The global pandemic and the resulting supply chain difficulties and labor shortages have forced many companies to change the way they do business. For industrial and energy companies that are already feeling the strain, video-based quality system can play a significant role in enhancing performance and quality of output, while mitigating security risks. Through efficient visual inspection, defects can be reduced by up to ten times, defective parts can be prevented from being shipped out, and insights can be gleaned into the causes of defects so production processes can be improved.
Mission Critical Edge company Lynx Software Technologies recently announced that its LYNX MOSA.ic platform now supports deployment of Google (News - Alert) Anthos bare metal at the mission-critical edge. Anthos on bare metal is a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by you, without a hypervisor layer. Anthos on bare metal will ship with built-in networking, lifecycle management, diagnostics, health checks, logging, and monitoring.
The new deployment option from Lynx will enable delivery of containerized software services from the cloud such as Google Cloud Visual Inspection AI service, providing a validated solution for secure, video-based quality inspection in industrial and energy facilities. The solution’s use of Google Anthos bare metal support means that now an entire Kubernetes cluster can be run locally in as little as one hardware system at the edge, with Lynx enabled virtual air gapping providing isolation between the different parts of the system.
Previously, the merging of operational technology (OT) and IT worlds -- training AI and machine learning models in the cloud and deploying cloud-based workloads at the edge -- posed security challenges in mission-critical industrial environments. Lynx ensures the three functions -- image capture (camera), insight via inference engine (Google Anthos) and the action with a supervisory controller -- are completely sandboxed with the option of secure one-way (data diode) connections between them.
“As a provider of mission-critical edge, we’re thrilled to announce support for Google Anthos Bare Metal and Google Cloud Visual Inspection AI,” said Pavan Singh, Vice President of Product Management at Lynx, in a statement. “With the new solution we’re jointly bringing to market, any containerized service can now be deployed to the mission critical edge without compromising security or performance. This partnership also marks an important step in our growing industrial ecosystem.”
For more information about edge technology applications, plan on attending IoT Evolution Conference and Expo, which will be held June 21-24, 2022 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward Country Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. IoT Evolution is the leading event for education on the technologies and solutions IoT will have on the enterprise, smart cities, healthcare, and manufacturing. For more information or to register, visit the show website.