Movidius, Hikvision partner to make smarter security cameras

Chipmaker Movidius, recently acquired by Intel, is partnering with the Chinese video IoT firm Hikvision to build a lineup of smarter security cameras, the companies announced Monday. Using the Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit, the cameras will be able to run deep neural networks to perform high-accuracy video analytics on the cameras themselves. Such devices have typically relied on cloud computing power to run deep neural networks, but chipmakers and manufacturers expect to see an increasing amount of data processing happening on edge devices. Deep neural networks should enable a security system to detect visual anamolies like the arrival of suspicious packages or distracted drivers. "Advances in artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the way we think about personal and public security," Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane said in a statement.