ON Semiconductor RSL10 Smart Capture Camera Platform Employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Event-Triggered Imaging

     ON Semiconductor, launched the RSL10 smart camera platform, which combines cloud AI with ultra-low-power image capture and recognition to enable a new generation of IoT endpoints.

     The RSL10 smart capture camera platform adds AI-based image recognition capabilities to ultra-low-power IoT endpoints such as surveillance cameras, confined areas, factory automation, smart farming, and smart homes. A companion smartphone app provides the user interface for the platform and acts as a gateway to cloud-based, AI-enabled object recognition services.

     The platform brings together several innovations from ON Semiconductor, including the RSL10 SIP, which provides ultra-low energy Bluetooth low energy technology, and the ARX3A0 Mono 65° DFOV IAS module. This module is a compact prototype for developing a compact camera with 360 frames per second (fps) black and white imaging based on the ARX3A0 CMOS image sensor. These technologies, complemented by advanced motion and environmental sensors and power and battery management, provide a complete solution for automatically capturing images and identifying objects within them.

     Using the RSL10 smart capture camera platform, developers can create an endpoint that automatically sends images to the cloud for analysis when triggered by various elements such as time or environmental changes such as light or temperature. Likewise, the camera platform can operate in a low-power mode while monitoring a specific part of its field of view and automatically capture images when the content of the scene changes, then send the images to the cloud for processing, use AI to determine the image content, and then Take appropriate action.

     Image data is transmitted to the cloud through a gateway using RSL10 SIP Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. The low-power nature of the components used in the platform means that it can operate for extended periods of time from a single main or auxiliary battery. Designers can configure triggers using a companion app, also via Bluetooth Low Energy.

     "Hyperautomation is the next evolutionary development of IoT," said Wiren Perera, Director of IoT, ON Semiconductor. "The RSL10 smart capture camera platform embodies this concept, bringing vision-based AI to the edge for features such as automatic object recognition and scene changes. Continuing to provide a variety of wireless sensor solutions from device to cloud. The seamless addition of enabling vision takes it to another level.”

     Typical applications can include adding smart cameras to wearable safety devices such as hard hats. In a commercial setting, smart cameras can be used to monitor the contents of shopping carts to support automated checkout. In vehicles, smart cameras will be used to monitor occupants, such as children in the back seat, to warn of any safety issues. At home, smart cameras scan cupboards to build shopping lists.