On October 12th, Thundersoft, the world’s leading provider of intelligent operating system products and technologies, held an AIoT education seminar in Beijing with Tsinghua University and Huazhang Company of Machinery Industry Press, and released its TurboX AI Kit for the AIoT field. Teaching experiment platform. Zhao Hongfei, Chairman and CEO of Thundersoft, said in his speech, “While serving the industry, we deeply feel the importance of artificial intelligence talent training and industry integration. The matching of professional talent training and industry needs is to accelerate the development of China’s artificial intelligence industry. One of the key factors in the development of technology. Thundersoft hopes to use its leading technology in the field of operating systems and artificial intelligence, years of experience in cultivating talents with system engineering capabilities and full-stack technical capabilities, as well as a deep understanding of the industry, to help China’s AIoT Breaking through the bottleneck of production, education and research, collaborative innovation and rapid development.”

Zhao Hongfei, Chairman and CEO of Thundersoft, delivered a speech

Professor Chen Xiangqun from Peking University delivered a speech

With the acceleration of 5G commercialization, a large number of new edge intelligent computing application scenarios have been activated, and a large number of AI chips have begun to enter a substantial stage. However, what restricts the development of the industry is that a large number of traditional enterprises that need edge intelligent computing scenarios lack talents who understand both AI and IoT technology. There is a disconnect between the talent training and curriculum settings of colleges and universities and the demand for basic skills of talents by enterprise employers.

Thundersoft Chairman and CEO (left) and Professor Deng Yangdong of Tsinghua University (right) jointly unveiled the TurboX AI Kit teaching experiment platform

In the process of expanding intelligent IoT application scenarios and mining customer needs, Thundersoft found that with the rapid development of 5G, artificial intelligence and other related technologies, network bandwidth and computing resources are no longer the key factors restricting industrial development, and there is a lack of systematic engineering. The training method of talents and talents has become a bottleneck in the development of the entire AIoT field. The release of the TurboX AI Kit teaching experiment platform will build a platform for AIoT industry-university-research cooperation. As the first training program for AIoT in China, it has the following four characteristics:

Easy: Easy to use and easy to manage, students and teachers can complete teaching, experiments and equipment management anytime and anywhere where there is a network.

Ling: Flexible allocation, key resources such as graphics cards are allocated resources on demand and flexibly allocated.

Full: Full support, key resource pooling on the cloud, support for experiments/training/research sharing.

First: Advanced technology, relying on Thundersoft’s full-stack technology capabilities and international technology ecosystem, integrating cutting-edge technologies in the AIoT field.

Thundersoft CTO Zou Pengcheng delivered a speech

Zou Pengcheng, CTO of Thundersoft, said in his speech that the design concept of the platform is to meet the needs of AIoT-related industries such as smartphones, smart cars, and smart cities, covering engineering majors such as electronics/communications/computers, and docking with the “Washington Accord” project. Education and training standards to meet the multi-dimensional educational needs of colleges and universities such as experiment/practice/competition/scientific research, sharing courses, experimental equipment and scientific research equipment resources through private cloud/public cloud to realize “distributed” AIoT teaching and research.

Representatives of the four parties signed a strategic cooperation agreement

At the seminar, Thundersoft signed strategic cooperation agreements with Tsinghua University, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications and Century Dingli Education Group. Thundersoft will reach a comprehensive cooperation with Professor Deng Yangdong of Tsinghua University in scientific research and postgraduate training for predictive maintenance applications. At the same time, it has reached cooperation with Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications in the direction of joint training of AIoT talents.

Guan Lian, Vice President of Century Dingli Education Group, delivered a keynote speech

Guan Lian, vice president of Century Dingli Education Group, said in a speech that with the digital transformation entering the deep water area, industrial robots are widely used in traditional industries represented by automobiles. In the future, enterprises will no longer need pure skilled workers, but AI talents who can control and coordinate industrial robots. The training system of vocational colleges needs to be upgraded urgently. It is hoped that with the cooperation opportunities with Thundersoft, the two listed companies can jointly promote the transformation of the training system of vocational colleges and provide a large number of AIoT application talents for intelligent manufacturing.

TurboX AI Kit is an AI development kit for AIoT edge side released by Thundersoft last year. Based on this kit, a large number of smart applications have been developed, such as Panel defect detection systems for well-known panel companies and smart stores in large international supermarkets. management system, etc.

TurboX AI Kit

Panel defect detection system developed based on TurboX AI kit

The TurboX AI Kit teaching experiment platform is a system that combines AI kit and private cloud. It not only pools and allocates hardware resources on demand, but also carries a video teaching experiment system. The integrated cabinet contains servers, GPUs and several AI Kits, which facilitates the management of fixed assets for scientific research and experiments. At the same time, online resources can not only be accessed and applied at any time, but also allow teachers to share virtualized hardware resources.

Wen Dushi, director of the Embedded System Laboratory of the School of Computer Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, said that in the past, various hardware resources in our teaching and scientific research competitions were fragmented. Experimental assets damaged. In addition, the experimental course requires a lot of software and hardware environment construction work, which will waste a lot of time. The accumulation of experimental materials and documents is not comprehensive. The all-in-one computer of the TurboX AI Kit teaching experiment platform perfectly solves this problem. As a non-211 university, it wants to develop a new direction but has limited resources in all aspects. Thundersoft’s all-in-one computer platform not only solves many problems in the laboratory, but also brings a large number of technical resources and subject cooperation to the enterprise, which provides the college Cultivating industry-oriented specialized talents brings more opportunities.

It is reported that the 2.0 version of the TurboX AI Kit teaching experiment platform will integrate the face recognition system. At that time, the entire laboratory classroom and scientific research can be completed online, saving the school’s annual depreciation of laboratory equipment. Based on this platform, Thundersoft will also build a teaching resource sharing system, so that good teaching methods and excellent teachers can be seamlessly shared through this system.