I'm glad there's an AI hardware community. I'm a Python Flask app developer, and I'm currently creating an app for IoT remote automated control, filling materials into a large mixer. I'm currently having trouble getting the truck loaded with sand into the truck. I have to scan the material's position in the truck bed, how many cubic meters per truck, and the driver's data, along with the car's license plate. Can an AI chip help me solve my problem?
Can Metis help with truck loading automation?
+3- Axelera Team
HI there
Yeah, I’d say an AI chip like Metis can definitely help with parts of this, although the hardware alone won't deliver the whole solution.
The object detection side of things (spotting trucks, detecting where sand is in the bed, locating license plates) is right in Metis's wheelhouse. The Voyager SDK ships with YOLO models that are perfect for this kind of work, and you can train custom ones on your own data too.
The trickier bits are the OCR (actually reading the plate characters and driver info) and the volume estimation (getting accurate cubic metre readings - that’s a new one, which I’m sure can be done but I can’t recall seeing anyone trying it as yet!). Those are more application-level challenges that'll need some extra work beyond what the chip provides out of the box. Volume estimation in particular is a complex one, especially from a single camera. Maybe there are alternative ways to calculate that, like weight?
But I'd suggest starting with the object detection side first, getting that running, then building out the OCR and volume pieces around it. There are multiple angles to this, but I will say that if you get that running, you’ll have built something amazing! And saleable! 😄
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