Application hub launched to accelerate AI adoption at the edge

SECO has announced the official launch of the SECO Application Hub, a new app marketplace designed to radically simplify the development and deployment of AI on edge devices. Launching with more than 150 AI/ML applications already available, the Hub empowers businesses to accelerate the adoption of advanced vision, audio, speech, and data-driven applications across a wide range of sectors, including industrial automation, healthcare, smart mobility, and retail.

In today's competitive landscape, companies face notable hurdles in deploying AI at the edge, from managing fragmented hardware architectures to navigating complex software integration. The Application Hub manages these challenges directly, delivering a streamlined path from concept to deployment and enabling companies to focus on innovation and value creation.

"Our customers are eager to innovate with AI, and through our solutions, we've put powerful, AI-ready hardware in their hands. The challenge has been bridging the gap between that hardware and deploying effective AI models," said Fausto Di Segni, head of IoT and AI at SECO. "With the SECO Application Hub, we're making that process radically simpler. We're enabling businesses to move beyond the hardware and easily deploy the intelligence that will transform their products and operations."

The Hub delivers a powerful, value-driven toolkit for industrial OEMs, system integrator companies, developers and data scientists. It simplifies AI deployment by enabling users to search for, optimise, validate, and deploy relevant AI models in minutes, no matter the architecture. Whether adopting Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, NXP, Rockchip or MediaTek, businesses can select the best hardware for their specific needs without being locked into a single ecosystem, all while benefiting from the company's enterprise Long-Term Support on solutions featuring these chipsets. To further accelerate development, the Hub provides a comprehensive AI toolkit, including a rich, curated library of advanced software containers, sample applications, and deployment guides. Additionally, to foster a true marketplace ecosystem, the platform enables partners and developers to publish and monetise their own algorithms through a transparent revenue-sharing model.

Set for upcoming integration with Clea, SECO's framework for smart products, the Application Hub is designed to have an immediate impact. It enables predictive maintenance in industrial automation to reduce equipment downtime, accelerates the analysis of diagnostic images in healthcare, optimises retail operations through customer analytics, and improves smart city services, such as energy management. Following strategic collaborations with industry leaders such as Nayax for smart payments, Exein for cybersecurity, and silicon vendors like Axelera AI and NXP for hardware acceleration, the launch of the Application Hub marks the next key component in the company's ecosystem. It solidifies the company's full-stack offering, enabling businesses to significantly reduce their time-to-market when deploying secure, data-driven services for their clients.