viAct

viAct is the Asia leading AI smart construction monitoring cloud platform. With our proprietary vision technologies and extensive deployment experience, we can detect and anticipate the potential risks in construction site, trigger real-time warning signals and instant alerts to save worker lives. Since 2016, we focus on AI R&D and accumulated over 10 million domain data sets, pre-built more than 20 AI modules and operated our solution +30,000 hours construction projects. viAct is simple to use, flexible for plug & play with high detection accuracy and covering different kinds of working areas i.e. civil works, power plants, infrastructure, smart city and residential developments. Funded by SOSV, Artesian and Alibaba, viAct was granted the Top100 Global ConTech startups by BuildWorld & PwC in 2019 & Top50 ConTech Startups 2020 by CEMEX Ventures.

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Solution

	In model development and training, HUAWEI CLOUD provides Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) that can be automatically acquired at any time and the computing power is elastically scalable for flexible training tasks. In model deployment, HUAWEI CLOUD provides powerful and economical Ascend Atlas edge computing equipment for business deployment.

Benefits

ECS services can improve the utilization of GPU resources, ensure the smooth completion of urgent training tasks , provide stable and easy-to-use computing resources. The Acend solution guarantees deployment flexibility with high-performance edge devices.

總部位于中國(guó)香港的 viAct 今天宣布完成了 200 萬(wàn)美元的種子輪融資，由 SOSV 和 Vectr Ventures 共同領(lǐng)投。本次參投方還包括阿里巴巴香港創(chuàng)業(yè)基金會(huì)、Artesian Ventures 和 ParticleX。viAct 成立于 2016 年，主要通過(guò)基于人工智能的云平臺(tái)，結(jié)合計(jì)算機(jī)視覺(jué)、邊緣設(shè)備和移動(dòng)應(yīng)用，幫助建筑工地進(jìn)行全天候監(jiān)控。

目前該公司已經(jīng)服務(wù)于亞洲和歐洲的 30 多家建筑行業(yè)客戶，本次籌集的資金將用于研發(fā)、產(chǎn)品開(kāi)發(fā)和拓展東南亞國(guó)家。該平臺(tái)利用計(jì)算機(jī)視覺(jué)來(lái)檢測(cè)潛在的安全隱患、施工進(jìn)度以及機(jī)械和材料的位置。實(shí)時(shí)警報(bào)會(huì)被發(fā)送到一個(gè)界面簡(jiǎn)潔的移動(dòng)應(yīng)用上，專為那些經(jīng)?！霸卩须s和動(dòng)態(tài)的環(huán)境中工作，很難看清詳細(xì)的儀表盤(pán)”的工程師設(shè)計(jì)。

聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人兼首席運(yùn)營(yíng)官 Hugo Cheuk 表示，該公司將會(huì)率先進(jìn)入印尼和越南等東南亞市場(chǎng)，因?yàn)檎畬?duì)智慧城市和新基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的規(guī)劃意味著未來(lái)5到10年那里的新建設(shè)項(xiàng)目將增加。它還將進(jìn)入新加坡，因?yàn)殚_(kāi)發(fā)商愿意采用基于AI的技術(shù)。

SOSV 合伙人、Chinaccelerator 董事總經(jīng)理 Oscar Ramos 在新聞聲明中表示：“COVID加速了數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型，而建筑業(yè)等傳統(tǒng)行業(yè)正在經(jīng)歷一個(gè)更快的轉(zhuǎn)型過(guò)程，這對(duì)生存至關(guān)重要。viAct團(tuán)隊(duì)不僅創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)能推動(dòng)行業(yè)價(jià)值的產(chǎn)品，而且還能贏得客戶的信任，加速應(yīng)用”。