Portwell Glossary
From embedded computing and industrial automation to networking and system integration, Portwell uses a wide range of technical terms and industry standards. Explore the glossary to understand the technologies, interfaces, standards and concepts used across our products and solutions.
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Edge AI
Edge Artificial Intelligence
AI inference that runs on the device where the data is produced instead of in a data centre — for latency, bandwidth and data protection.
Related: Inference · Edge Computing · GPU
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Edge Computing
Processing data close to where it is created rather than centrally, to reduce latency and the amount of data to transfer.
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
A processor for parallel computation. In embedded systems it handles displays as well as AI inference.
Inference
Inference
Running a trained AI model on new data. Unlike training, inference has to be fast and fits on embedded hardware.
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