Color sorter, an industrial application terminal that realizes material sorting and purification based on the difference in material color, shape or texture, and then through photoelectric detection, image processing and other means, can meet the color sorting requirements of various products such as special materials, such as Rice, tea, beans, medicinal materials, seeds, dried shrimps, nuts, various dry goods, plastics, jewellery, ores and others.
Industry is an important category of IoT applications. In recent years, technologies related to the Internet of Things, such as big data analysis, Internet of Things development platforms, and edge computing, have made qualitative leaps, and terminal products have also undergone a large number of practical application verifications. Intelligent interconnection has become the trend and development trend of industrial products. consensus.
Internet of Things + industrial automation, a new ecology of industrial collaboration
As the world's leading overall solution provider for the Internet of Things, Quectel's various high-end 5G modules, smart modules, and supporting antennas are widely used in industrial production automation and other fields, becoming an eye-catching representative of the industry. Quectel's intelligent color sorting solutions exhibited at several exhibitions at home and abroad recently attracted the attention of many visitors.
The color sorter is an industrial application terminal that realizes material sorting and purification based on differences in material color, shape or texture, and then through photoelectric detection, image processing and other means.
In the 1980s, due to the limitations of technical research, the rice color sorters used in China were all imported from abroad; in the 1990s, my country began to study the manufacturing technology of color sorters; with the development of digital technology, the color sorter The types are also constantly updated, starting from photoelectric (analog) technology, to the application of CCD (digital) technology, and then upgraded to intelligent color sorter cloud technology. At present, the new intelligent color sorter terminal developed based on cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, edge computing, and machine vision has fully realized the functions of automation and remote control, which can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy of color sorting, while greatly reducing the cost of Cost of production.
Move away from smart modules. Empowering Industrial Color Sorting Solutions
Quectel's color sorting solution is developed for the industrial material management industry. It adopts Quectel's SG560D smart module based on Qualcomm's QCS6490 platform and integrates hardware such as cameras, light sources and air guns. The solution improves the color sorting results of industrial materials through a visual recognition system combined with machine vision and edge computing capabilities, and automatically sorts objects based on color and shape. Its applicable color sorting range includes rice, wheat, corn, soybean, seeds, nuts, salt and other food raw materials, plastic parts, plastic particles, plastic bottle caps and other plastic products, and mineral products such as quartz stone, quartz sand, pearl and marble .
The specific workflow of the color sorter equipped with Quectel’s intelligent color sorting solution is as follows:
- The material enters the production line through the hopper, and the visual recognition system of the terminal monitors the material, and transmits the monitoring data to the AI system in real time;
- The color, material, size and other data of qualified materials are pre-set in the AI system, and materials that meet the standards can enter the next quality inspection process;
- Bad materials that do not meet the standards will directly trigger the air gun to blow away, keeping them away from the production line, and then complete color sorting and other work.
The above-mentioned color sorting quality inspection is fully automated without manual intervention. Moreover, the terminal also has functions such as automatic adjustment of equipment working parameters and remote online operation, creating a solid technical environment for improving the performance of automated production lines, realizing efficient data collection and transmission, secure communication, and cost control.
SG560D intelligent module, driving high-quality color selection scheme
The efficiency of the color sorting scheme depends on the high performance of the built-in chips and modules. Quectel Smart Module SG560D is a powerful smart module equipped with Qualcomm® Kryo™ 670 CPU based on Arm v8 Cortex technology and Qualcomm Adreno™ 643 @812MHz GPU, and adopts 2 x HVX high-performance digital signal processing ( DSP) brings superior computing power for fast, high-quality data processing and faster data-driven decision making. According to estimates, the comprehensive computing power of the SG560D module can reach 14TOPS.
Relying on the advanced visual recognition system and supporting four cameras working at the same time, this solution can handle a large number of material color sorting tasks with extremely high precision and an error rate of less than 1/200000. At present, Quectel's SG560D module has been widely used in the color sorting industry.
In addition to computing power, SG560D also supports 5G NR wireless connection, 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz Wi-Fi 6E frequency bands, dual-band synchronization (DBS), Wi-Fi 2x2 MU-MIMO and Bluetooth 5.2, etc., to effectively enhance network coverage , to increase the data transmission rate in different application scenarios.
In addition, for traditional industrial processes, Quectel utilizes the high AI computing power and visual inspection capabilities of smart modules to provide scene services such as product surface defect detection, object recognition, object classification, and OCR recognition, bringing traditional industries to life. In the future, Quectel will continue to strengthen the R&D investment and product layout of related products to welcome the beautiful era of industrial transformation.