AI technology presented by Kia Motors and Bespin Global
presented a new future for the automobile industry at CES 2018.
Company Overview
Kia Motors, an affiliate of the Hyundai Motor Group, is a global automotive company boasting production of 3 million vehicles in 180 countries. With a long history spanning over 70 years, we are continuing to grow by presenting the future of the automobile industry with a forward-looking vision.
Kia Motors presented the future of automobiles at CES 2018 with Bespin Global.
‘Boundless for All’: Kia Presents Vision for Future Mobility at CES 2018
Kia Motors plans to launch a full portfolio of connected cars by 2030, and at CES 2018, it showcased an artificial intelligence (AI) car that recognizes the driver’s voice and face as part of the connected car. Bespin Global applied facial/voice recognition technology to Kia Motors based on Amazon Web Services, and participated as a partner in the entire process from construction to implementation.
The facial/voice recognition technology implemented by Bespin Global sets the car to a pre-set environment according to the individual’s preference through facial recognition, and disables most of the car’s functions if driver recognition fails. am.
For facial recognition technology, ‘Amazon Rekognition’, a service that recognizes and analyzes images and faces, was applied, and for voice recognition technology, ‘Amazon Polly’, a service that converts text into voice, was applied. applied. Bespin Global’s Big Data Cloud Lab, a team specializing in big data, participated in the construction and implementation.
Architecture
* This is a configuration to aid understanding, and is different from the actual architecture.
Architecture details
- Recognize faces through the camera
- Take a picture and send it to AWS S3
- Upload to S3
- When an image is uploaded to a specific bucket in S3, a corresponding event is sent to Lambda.
- Lambda calls Rekognition’s API to get information from analyzing a person’s face (emotions, glasses, eyesight, mustache)
- Determine which IoT message to send to PC based on face information analyzed through Rekognition – Logic can be implemented in Lambda
- By publishing a specific IoT message, the PC already registered as an IoT device receives the message.
- Text is sent to Polly from the received IoT message, so that the PC receives Voice Stream from Polly.
- Play sound
- Various actions that the user will experience on the PC are executed (Personalization schedule, Lights on, etc.)
2018 and Beyond
With this CES as an opportunity, Kia Motors was able to showcase its future-oriented technology and capabilities to the world.
With the success of this project, we confirmed the potential of big data and AI based on the cloud, and we plan to carry out big data and AI advancement strategies that incorporate various data and information into our vehicles through future projects.
About Bespin Global:
Bespin Global helps businesses accelerate cloud adoption with industry leading solutions and consulting expertise, delivering service-level-driven outcomes across all the major public cloud technologies.
Serving more than 3000 customers throughout our offices located around the world, Bespin relies on the large number of skilled, highly certified cloud experts and their in-depth experience in the industry to help organizations thrive on innovation and technology.
Bespin Global’s services include cloud Resell, migration, implementation, Big Data, DevOps, and FinOps for a range of Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
Listed since 2016 in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud infrastructure for six years in a row, Bespin is now recognized as a “Visionary” in 2022 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation services. Bespin Global has also developed its own monitoring tool called “OpsNow” to support businesses in controlling their cloud costs and managing multi-cloud environments.
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