Advantech, the leading provider of industrial AI system, today announced its MIC-710AIX edge AI platform has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT allows customers to use Advantech MIC-710AIX to work with an ecosystem of devices and platforms, allowing for faster time to deployment.
Advantech’s industrial inference system MIC-AI is the best choice for industrial applications. Its small size and fanless structure, combined with NVIDIA Jetson module, it is more suitable for edge AI inference. Advantech’s MIC-AI has a variety of I/O and flexible, customized modules (i-Door/i-Module), enabling customers to freely select the interface for input and output data in different usage scenarios. With industry-proven expertise and experience in designing and producing industrial AI computing platforms for smart manufacturing and smart city applications, to better serve customer needs, Advantech MIC-AI further collaboration with Microsoft, help customer can easily integrate AI systems with existed system and to the cloud.
The MIC-710AIX is now validated with Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT. Advantech MIC-710AIX is AI inference system embedded with NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX. This compact fanless system has industrial design with highly-efficient computing capabilities and low power consumption. Its diverse I/O are ideal for smart city, intelligent manufacturing, and other embedded AI applications at the edge.
AIoT projects are complex and need to take a long time to implement. It is time-consuming for customers to choose and connect the right set of devices, assets or sensors to the cloud can be time-consuming. Now MIC-710AIX and the previous certified MIC-720AI joined Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT, and are tested for readiness, compatibility and usability with the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite customer can jumpstart their IoT projects directly.