IoT expert Seco has announced a commercial partnership with computing leader Raspberry Pi to develop the next generation of industrial IoT solutions. The two companies will work together to integrate Seco's Clea IoT software suite with Raspberry Pi's robust hardware platforms into comprehensive solutions for a range of industrial applications. It's a big leap forward in IoT and embedded computing, with both companies working together to deliver easy-to-use, powerful, and flexible solutions that meet the needs of modern industry.
A 10.1-inch human-machine interface product based on Raspberry Pi's Compute Module 5 will be launched. This product will become an indispensable addition to the workstations of industrial operators guided by intuitive interfaces for process monitoring and control. The advanced visualization and interaction that this HMI will provide with its sophisticated interface will increase access and functionality in environments that require robust, reliable, and easy-to-use interfaces.
Innovations in Edge AI and Image Recognition
The collaboration also includes the study of emerging technologies like Edge AI, image recognition, and microcontroller applications. Both companies strongly believe that this area is seen to have big growth potential in rapidly expanding markets such as energy management, smart building, healthcare, vending, and industrial automation. This will be further integrated with the software from Seco on Raspberry Pi's systems to enable AI-driven analysis at the edge-a key need for those applications for which there is a demand for the swift local processing of data to reduce latency and increase efficiency in operations.
This local data processing capability will be particularly useful in real-time image recognition tasks in quality control applications for manufacturing, monitoring applications in healthcare, and even customer interaction applications in vending and retail environments. This edge AI could also significantly raise energy efficiency by enabling devices to make their intelligent decisions based on data independently, reducing power consumption and operating costs.
Seco and Raspberry Pi's Vision for the Future
According to Massimo Mauri, the CEO of Seco, this partnership is a "great opportunity" for an industrial system manufacturer like Seco to exploit the world diffusion of the hardware technology from Raspberry Pi with the pairing of their respective software strengths. Mauri added that they are confident the agreement will yield growth and innovation in the industrial IoT sector. The broad community of users using Raspberry Pi, combined with its reputation in the developer community, merges with the expertise of Seco in IoT and industrial applications to create a very strong synergy promising transformative change within the industry.
This collaboration also speaks to a larger trend within the IoT market: an increasing demand for interoperable, user-friendly, and AI-enhanced industrial solutions. As the core of every industry around the world struggles to meet the challenges of digital transformation, it is deals like this between Seco and Raspberry Pi that lay the path for IoT solutions that can be not only high-performance but scalable and adaptable for applications of every kind.