Figure 1: The need to efficiently store high volumes of vision-based data is growing
In terms of AI, there has been an explosion of applications using machine learning, whereby patterns are identified by analyzing high volumes of vision-based data. These applications require reliable, high-capacity, high-performance storage.
We may still be a ways off from a fully-realized, self-driving car, but many luxury, top-of-the-line cars will offer self-parking features, made possible by cutting edge technology with sensors, visual data storage, and AI. As technology improves for transport field applications like surveillance, in-vehicle data logging, and auto-piloting, there is a significant and growing demand for efficiently storing high volumes of vision-based data. All of these applications require reliable, high-capacity, high-performance storage. In many cases, such systems may also need to operate in challenging environments with wide temperature ranges, strong vibration levels, considerable humidity, and/or unstable power supplies.
Consider, for example, the UPS truck driver going cross-country for hours on end in the middle of a freezing winter night. Or, a car sitting in traffic in the middle of downtown Los Angeles in sweltering summer heat.
In many cases, such systems may also need to operate in challenging environments, such as a manufacturing facility, the body of a vehicle or aircraft, or outdoors. While SSDs built on non-volatile NAND flash memory are the technology of choice, there can be issues when deploying SSDs in industrial or ‘non-consumer’ applications. On top of that NAND flash performance, reliability and endurance decreases as storage density increases.
In one such case, Advantech supported a project involving in-vehicle video recording and a data-logging system. The requirements: a high-capacity data collection system in a very small form factor that would take advantage of the performance of PCIe SSDs using the NVMe communications protocol. Designed for global deployment, the complete system had to operate at temperatures ranging from -20C up to 70C. While applying multiple NVMe SSDs in a system provides excellent throughput with strong performance, putting together 6 to 12 pieces of the high power consumption NVMe SSD also generates substantial heat. Due to the fact that the system had to be very compact and needed to fit into in-vehicle applications, heat dissipation was a major obstacle.
In this case, Advantech’s SQFlash 920 NVMe SSDs provided the perfect solution. The SSDs used Toshiba’s BiCS 3D NAND flash technology, supported capacity of up to 8 TB per drive, and came with built-in power failure protection and advanced security technologies.
Figure 2:Advantech’s SQFlash SSD
Keeping the stored data secure was another important consideration. SQFlash SSDs addressed this through a variety of advanced data security capabilities ranging from functions that lock read and write commands via an SSD firmware setting to rapid or emergency erase options.
This high-performance and ruggedized NVMe SSDs solution proved to be ideally suited to the customer’s requirements. Advantech’s design-in capabilities and manufacturing services also helped improve the time-to-market for the customer’s newest product release. Overall, the customer was very satisfied with Advantech’s solution for this incredibly important emerging use case.
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