Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) has announced the expansion of its partner ecosystem and launched five new ready-to-deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions.
The vendor said the growing global ecosystem of industry-leading independent software vendors (ISVs) enables Lenovo to bring to market AI solutions for a wide range of applications and industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and financial services.
Lenovo also stated that it has deepened engagements with industry leaders Intel and NVIDIA to help support its extensive portfolio of AI-ready servers and storage, enabling ISVs to optimise their AI applications across the entire hardware and software stack, ensuring customers receive the stellar performance for their AI investments.
Addfor is one of several ISV partners Lenovo is working with as part of an AI Accelerator programme to enable, build and optimise AI solutions designed to solve real-world problems.
“We are already exploring ways that the solution can be adapted to help prevent overcrowding in business and public settings, to help better protect citizens,” said Enrico Busto, Founding Partner and CTO, Addfor. “We’re excited to continue developing cutting-edge AI and Edge Computing solutions supported by Lenovo and NVIDIA. We’re confident that our partnership will play an important role in pushing the frontiers of data science innovation.”
For the City of Turin, Addfor developed and deployed an AI solution crowdHEDGE, based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SE350 Edge servers to interface with networked video systems, using AI drone footage to extract data insights in outdoor spaces like city parks. crowdHEDGE focuses on tracking foot traffic and crowd sizes to closely monitor compliance with COVID-19 public policies. Lenovo’s ThinkSystem edge server solution, powered by NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, powers the image recognition captured by the drone footage.
“Thanks to this pilot project in the field of safety and security of public spaces, the City of Turin addresses the combined use of drones, AI and Edge Computing to focus on urban and aerospace mobility as an opportunity for the use of AI within the Public Administration,” said Deputy Mayor Innovation and Smart City, City of Turin.
Lenovo’s continued mission to make AI solutions easy to consume by global customers is enabled through its ability to partner with leading developers and data scientists. Leveraging Lenovo’s AI innovation centers, AI architecture and hardware expertise, Lenovo is helping move AI from concept to reality.
