Seagate Launches First Drive for AI-Enabled Surveillance
October 28 2017 - 9:30PM
Business Wire
SkyHawk AI equips system installers,
manufacturers and end users with smart, safe and efficient storage
for always-on video surveillance
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) announced today its
SkyHawk™ AI hard disk drive (HDD), the first drive created
specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) enabled video
surveillance solutions. Building on Seagate’s 10-year track record
of delivering surveillance optimized storage performance, SkyHawk
AI provides unprecedented bandwidth and processing power to manage
always-on, data-intensive workloads, while simultaneously analyzing
and recording footage from multiple HD cameras.
Analytics on video surveillance hardware is growing
exponentially, forecasted to increase from 27.6 million shipments
in 2016 to 126 million shipments in 2021 (Cropley, 2017), as
hardware manufacturers continue to include analytics sensors on
network video recorders (NVRs). This will only increase as AI –
particularly deep learning and machine learning applications, such
as facial recognition and analyzing irregularities in behavior –
become increasingly prevalent. In parallel, the need for fast video
analytics will continue to rise, increasing the workload burden on
NVR storage.
“The use of AI technology in surveillance is steadily increasing
- both in the edge and backend installations such as retail fronts
and large city traffic management. Seagate has led the surveillance
storage market since its early days, a decade ago, by delivering
industry leading HDD products that have enabled more than 5X
increase in exabytes during this time period,” said Sai Varanasi,
vice president product line management at Seagate Technology. “We
are excited to introduce smart, purpose-built SkyHawk AI solutions
that expand the design space for our customers and partners,
allowing them to implement next-generation deep learning and video
analytics applications.”
SkyHawk AI is ideal for intensive computational workloads that
typically accompany AI work streams, as its high throughput and
enhanced caching deliver low latency and excellent random read
performance to quickly locate and deliver video images and footage
analysis. This enables on-the-edge decision making, eliminating the
latency of exchanging cloud-based data and processing. Equipped
with Seagate ImagePerfect™ AI firmware, the drive reliably records
high quality, sharp video footage with no dropped frames, while
simultaneously facilitating AI-enabled NVR analytics – ensuring
that intelligence gathered through video surveillance footage is
not lost.
“As smart cities, smart transportation, and other surveillance
programs become more prevalent, the number of surveillance nodes
has reached the hundreds of thousands. Due to the widespread use of
high-definition monitoring, the amount of data required in security
surveillance has dramatically increased. The efficient collection,
analysis, and application of data is becoming ever more critical,”
said Guo Xudong, deputy general manager of domestic sales &
marketing, Hikvision. “We are excited that Seagate will launch the
industry’s first AI optimized surveillance drive which will enable
us to efficiently manage data storage and processing challenges,
including, but not limited to, our DeepinMind NVR series.”
“Video analytics has been evolving over the past 10 years and is
garnering a lot of attention these days due to the use of AI. Dahua
Technology made an early start in AI applications and has since
made several achievements in the industry, for example, the newly
launched IVSS series,” said Yang Shengwei, products and solutions
director, Domestic Sales Operation Center of Dahua Technology. “As
a strategic partner, Seagate’s advanced technology will help Dahua
to reach a new top in the AI field. We hope with the newly launched
SkyHawk AI drive we can boost the AI application across the
surveillance industry.”
“With the rapid advancement of IoT, cloud computing, and big
data, we’re entering an intelligent security era. AI is now
prevalent in the security market and will be driving the
development of the industry in coming years,” said Li Lin, vice
president of Uniview. “Data storage is a key factor for
surveillance and we believe with the SkyHawk AI drive we can
optimize the performance of Uniview’s systems and increase value
for our clients.”
Pricing and Availability
SkyHawk AI is now shipping to customers worldwide through
appointed authorized distributors. For more information on
Seagate’s SkyHawk line of drives, as well as the full Seagate
Guardian Series, please visit
www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives.
Every SkyHawk AI drive is covered by a 5-year limited warranty,
and is bundled with a 2-year coverage from Seagate Rescue Services.
The SkyHawk AI hard drive is available in both 10TB and 8TB
capacities and has a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP)
in the U.S. of $449.99 and $349.99, respectively.
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