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Pivothead builds AR safety glasses using Intel's Joule (CNET News)

2016-08-16
now it's the latest I'm pleased to announce to you today jewel the newest and highest performance maker platform Intel has made this platform combines powerful computer vision a vast hardware and software ecosystem choice of operating systems and a complete suite of software tools jewel will seamlessly transition from prototype to scale whether you're innovating in robotics machine visioning intelligent gateways almost any application can be done best with jewel and I'd like to invite Diana on stage to show you just what jewel can do with our demo here hey Diana hey Brian so this isn't quite as big as Jeff's jet engine but I'm getting closer so what are you having for us all right well you know after all that high tech you've been showing I would like to talk about safety glasses but not just any safety glasses these are from pivothead and they contain an integrated high quality camera we've augmented their solution with Intel jewel and airbus is experimenting with this platform for their future factory project with the advanced computer vision capabilities we're able to provide real-time feedback to their factory workers as they go about their tasks and Intel jewels small size and low-power envelope make these lightweight devices they can easily wear all day and we're doing all the computation right on Intel Jules there's no need for additional connectivity so an example and why I brought this little plane segment here Brian I know your expertise with drones is well known but I think maybe it's been a while since you've tried to construct a full fledged aircraft yeah luckily nobody's riding in a jumbo jet I built so no worries there all right I'll save comment on that but tens of thousands of bolts many different sizes shapes colors materials you want to make sure the right bolt is in the right location so you can do a quality finish dual track at the end of final assembly another alternative might be to take something that the workers are wearing already the safety glasses because they're for safety and actually how do I do board of bolt verification in real time as they're going through there through their tasks we take a look sure now this is meant to be an audio input to you correct correct yeah so when I so you can see when I put the glasses on here and then you will be putting video up on the screen but this is just so you can see what I'm seeing or you can see what the glasses are seeing the workers themselves they're not seeing any video they're just going through their normal job wearing their safety glasses doing the various bolt insertions you can see we're scanning the patterns here so the glasses are continuously scanning looking for any potential bolt mismatches but the workers are just doing their job as usual they don't have to do anything different the eyeglasses will keep an eye on things and if the glasses see that there's any potential bolt mismatches they will over the positions 1 & 2 like that they will alert me with an audio notification just letting me know so I'm not changing anything I'm just getting alerts to warn me that I'm there might be a mismatch and it'll also give me the option to have a remote call with a voice over IP call with a mode expert who can actually see what I'm seeing and provide prepped provide additional in essence as necessary so very straightforward doesn't really change the workers jobs but just helps them you know ensure 100% accuracy on the bolts so you think about the efficiency right real-time tracking of work projects like this and a hundred percent tracking every bolt is inspected basically I like that in a plane yeah basically that will give me a lot more confidence in the next jet I fly in as a result thank you very much for showing us
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