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Empowering Industrial Control with Edge Computing: Building an Efficient AI People Flow Detection System with ICOP Technology's NX8MM-35

2026-04-29

To drive this transformation, ICOP Technology has launched the industrial-grade NX8MM-35 Single Board Computer (Product details: https://www.icop.com.tw/product/NX8MM-35). This hardware demonstrates high flexibility in image input; customers can use devices such as MIPI-CSI, USB, or IP cameras to achieve efficient AI recognition on ICOP Technology's underlying hardware. This highly compatible architecture allows equipment to quickly upgrade visual analysis capabilities with the lowest setup threshold.

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Why Choose ICOP Technology as Your AI Computing Core?

When pursuing AI implementation, hardware flexibility and development cycles are the keys to success. ICOP Technology provides diverse hardware form factors to adapt to different scenarios: the NX8MM-35 adopts a highly flexible SOM (System on Module) and Carrier Board design. In addition to standard products, we also support custom ODM carrier board requirements for clients. Furthermore, we offer the fanless system EBOX-IMX8MM, the industrial-grade panel PC PN8M-090T and Openframe PC VOX N8M series.

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In the practical deployment of edge computing, ICOP Technology adheres to a pragmatic strategy. For visual tasks like people counting, we can achieve our goals smoothly and accurately through lightweight small models. This approach of solving actual needs with small models not only saves enterprises from unnecessary hardware premiums but also brings the stability advantages of low power consumption and fanless operation, helping clients push their products to the market in the most efficient way (Time-to-Market).

In terms of software architecture, ICOP Technology acquires models by utilizing the NXP eIQ® machine learning software platform. We primarily adopt the MediaPipe API, which is optimized for embedded systems and possesses absolute advantages in small size and fast computing speed. This enables ICOP Technology's solution to accurately and instantly output facial bounding boxes in a pure CPU environment, perfectly meeting the balanced requirements of industrial-grade applications for cost-effectiveness, resource allocation, and response speed.

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Real-Time Precision for Motion and I/O Control

ICOP Technology's human face detection system has practically demonstrated outstanding results at the Taipei International Industrial Automation Exhibition 2025. The on-site Live Demo accurately recorded big data on people flow over the four-day exhibition, reaching a single-day peak of 5,383 visitors. Looking ahead, ICOP Technology will continue to deepen its AI vision technology, planning to introduce facial feature learning and integrate cloud monitoring dashboards. Whether for smart retail or industrial transformation, ICOP Technology's robust hardware lineup will be your best computing core and partner in stepping into the new era of smart automation.

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Key features of NX8MM-35:

  • i.MX 8M Mini Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 up to 1.6/1.8GHz
  • Memory: Up to 4GB LPDDR4
  • Storage: Up to 64GB eMMC
  • Display: LVDS/HDMI interface
  • Connectivity: GLANx2, USB x4, COMx4, i2c, SPI, GPIO,Touch,
    MiniPCIe with Sim Card holder and HD Audio.
  • Operating temperature: -20°C to +70°C (opt. -40°C to +80°C)

For more information and sample request, please write to info@icop.com.tw, call your nearest ICOP Branch, or contact our Worldwide Official Distributor.