Advantech is a Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer operating as a key OEM partner within the professional AV industry, often building the underlying video appliances, encoders, and decoders utilized by major ProAV brands. Melkie, a product manager at Advantech, detailed the company’s comprehensive range of computing platforms designed specifically for video processing, digital signage, and streaming applications.
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A central focus of the booth was the edge AI digital signage player, built on the AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 series platform. This rugged, wide-temperature device leverages the integrated NPU for onboard artificial intelligence processing. A primary use case demonstrated at the booth was targeted advertisement and audience analytics. By utilizing a standard webcam, the edge AI system processes video locally to gather demographic and age metadata of viewers, transmitting only the metadata rather than sensitive facial video data.
The demonstration also featured a highly efficient digital signage player based on the AMD R2000 series, supporting four independent HDMI outputs for multi-display configurations up to 8K total bandwidth. Advantech also highlighted the 6W2DP digital signage player, which operates on the Intel Twin Lake platform. These diverse hardware offerings allow Advantech to support various deployment environments, prioritizing power efficiency, multi-display capabilities, and localized AI processing.
Advantech received Best of Show nominations at InfoComm for two distinct video server appliances. The first is a 1RU short-depth server designed to house up to four PCIe cards for video encoding, transcoding, or capture, featuring optional dual redundant 800-watt power supplies. The second nominated product is the Vega 6321, a half-rack appliance that integrates video capture, encoding, and playback into a single unit with dedicated HDMI inputs and outputs for concurrent encode and decode operations.
Further showcasing their hardware versatility, Advantech presented the Vega 6000 point-to-point video streamer. This device operates on a Xilinx MPSoC with a dedicated video processing unit, achieving a glass-to-glass video latency of under 100 milliseconds. Complementing the Xilinx-based streamer is an edge streamer device running on an Intel 13th Gen CPU to handle optimized video playback. Advantech supplies these foundational hardware platforms primarily to software vendors and leading ProAV providers.
