Qualcomm Introduces IP Camera Reference Platform With Many Features

Qualcomm has launched a camera platform with advance processing, imaging and analytics capabilities to advance security cameras.

The American chipmaker, Qualcomm, has launched a new device. It made an announcement today that its Snapdragon 618 IP camera reference design and development platform has been introduced by its affiliate Qualcomm Technologies (QT). The new device integrates QT’s analytics technology, connectivity, prominent processing, and imaging to provide support to more smart and strong professional safety cameras.

Qualcomm news exclaimed that the new platform encompasses IP camera SDK and reference design, supporting broad connectivity, heterogeneous computing facility for video analytics and 4K HEVC video. QT’s official, Raj Talluri, stated, "Qualcomm Technologies continues to drive meaningful value across the IoT ecosystem, and we're seeing tremendous traction in the use of our platforms across many vertical segments.“

Qualcomm Breaking news affirmed that the camera platform integrates a strong 6-core, next-gen GPU, 64-bit computing, embedded digital signal processor together with innovative video analytics to go beyond the smart camera to "conscious camera", which could not only execute on-camera video analytics, like facial detection, Qualcomm Zeroth object classification, and object detection, but also stream 4K HEVC.

With the help of such intelligence in the new device, customers could move from costly, server-based video-analytics in the cloud to additionally consistent camera-based analytics. By only streaming information when eligible events take place, the new QT’s platform is pioneered to lower down cloud storing costs and network bandwidth requirements for clients using cloud-based safety services.

Qualcomm news today informed that Anthony Murray (QT International employee), stated, "Moving the video analytics processing from the server to the camera at the point of capture will open up a new class of big data applications. Qualcomm Snapdragon processors already power over 500 smartphone designs with 4K UltraHD video capability, so it's natural for us to bring this same technology leadership into IP camera space."

The platform is broad reference design for a 4K HEVC IP Camera with strong connectivity and implausible computation power. Its features are given below:

• Six core, 64 bit computing with dual 1.8 gigahertz ARM CortexTM-A72 plus quad 1.2 gigahertz Cortex-A53 cores.
• Combined X8 LTE with Global Mode and cutting-edge carrier aggregation up to 2x20 megahertz in both uplink and downlink.
• LTE Cat 7 supported for top speeds of 300 MBPS download / 100 MBPS upload.
• NG Qualcomm Hexagon digital signal processor and Qualcomm Adreno GPU together with the 6-core 64-bit computing to offer entire, heterogeneous computation system for imaging and CC advanced analytics.
• Double image signal processors to provide support for up to 21 mega pixel pictures and 4K video with HEVC coding and dedicated hardware h.264, providing up to 50% cut down in bandwidth.
• Power managing IC with combined audio codec that supports effective battery operation.