Qualcomm and Aramco Digital Collaborate to Commercialize Advanced Edge AI for Industrial IoT

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ByChantal Polsonetti
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Aramco Digital have announced their intent to enter into a strategic collaboration to develop, deploy, and commercialize state-of-the-art industrial edge AI technologies and solutions to drive the digital transformation of key industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The collaboration also includes the development of AI-driven industrial use cases and service offerings.

Aramco Digital aims to develop and commercialize a range of advanced edge AI industrial devices and end-to-end solutions powered by products and services from Qualcomm Technologies. These solutions are designed to meet the specific requirements of various industry sectors in the Kingdom, with the goal of increasing efficiency and productivity, enhancing safety and sustainability, and enabling new innovations in industrial services—from worker assistants to predictive maintenance, visual anomaly detection, asset management, and more.

The collaboration will leverage Aramco Digital’s 450 MHz 5G industrial network to connect Qualcomm-based intelligent edge devices—including smartphones, rugged industrial devices, robots, drones, cameras, sensors, and other IoT devices. Aramco Digital and Qualcomm Technologies also plan to develop capabilities to deploy, manage, and update AI models on Aramco Digital’s edge AI devices.

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