AI Farming Company

AI Farming Company

Liu Wai-man, CEO and founder of the company, is also the owner of Hee Kee Crab General Restaurant. In addition to this, AI Farming Company also operates crab aquafarms in the Yuen Long District in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, where they experiment digital technologies in aquaculture.The company's signature offering is AIACHFS — an AI automated crab hotel farming system — along with its matching solution. They wanted to introduce AI image recognition and automated device control technologies for more refined and intelligent crab farming and improved yields of molting and soft-shelled crabs.

Liu Wai-man, CEO and founder of the company, is also the owner of Hee Kee Crab General Restaurant . In addition to this, AI Farming Company also operates crab aquafarms in the Yuen Long District in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, where they experiment digital technologies in aquaculture. The company's signature offering is AIACHFS — an AI automated crab hotel farming system — along with its matching solution. They wanted to introduce AI image recognition and automated device control technologies for more refined and intelligent crab farming and improved yields of molting and soft-shelled crabs.

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Business Challenges

Transitioning from a restaurant to a digital startup providing intelligent aquaculture solutions, AI Farming needs to integrate various complex systems for their AIACHFS, including those for automated robot design and assembling, data collection, management, and modeling, IoT sensing, AI image recognition and object model training and inference. However, AI involves a full technology stack from chipsets, storage, network, distributed computing, computing frameworks, feature engineering, and machine learning algorithms.The complexity of this stack results in a steep learning curve, making the adoption of AI both costly and time-consuming.Despite their diligent efforts to optimize their AI models, AI Farming has struggled to develop an efficient, easy-to-manage AI system, and they expected an actionable scheme from Huawei Cloud.

Why HUAWEI CLOUD?

Huawei Cloud is a globally renowned technology enterprise that pioneers in cloud computing technologies and solutions. Following the principle of "Everything as a Service", Huawei Cloud offers an extensive array of services, including big data and AI, to assist companies in their digital transformation journey. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud provides end-to-end, secure, and all-encompassing digitalization services for enterprises, while prioritizing user security and privacy.

Huawei Solutions

ModelArts: Heart of the Solution

  • Huawei Cloud provides ModelArts, a one-stop and easy-to-use AI development environment, which is a systematic service that covers the entire process of AI model development. ModelArts provides functions such as data processing, AI model development, training, management, and deployment. Enterprises can use services in ModelArts on demand. It works with Huawei Ascend chips to optimize AI computing performance in full-stack mode, providing a low-cost and high-performance inference platform.

Intelligent data labeling

Data, algorithms, and computing power are the indispensable cornerstones that underpin the development of AI. In most AI and machine learning projects, data preparation and labeling tasks account for over 80% of the time, among which data cleansing and labeling account for about 50% of the entire project. This is labor-consuming. The preparation of a large amount of high-quality data has become a challenging issue in AI development. The following capabilities boost data labeling and management efficiency for AI Farming:

1) Data preview, multi-screen display, and some other functions for AI developers to quickly identify high-value data

2) More than 10 tools to label the data from different scenarios

3) Intelligent labeling and team labeling to speed up and improve data labeling

ExeML

ModelArts ExeML is a customized code-free model development tool that helps developers start codeless AI application development with high flexibility. ExeML is the process of automating model design, parameter tuning, and model training, compression, and deployment with the labeled data. With ExeML, you only need to upload data and perform simple operations as prompted on the ExeML GUI to train and deploy models. AI Farming uses the image classification (to identify the objects) and object identification (to identify the positions and types of the objects) technologies to monitor their crabs.

Online Inference

ModelArts deploys AI applications according to the specified resource specifications and number of instances. It also automatically configures REST APIs to provide the real-time inference service externally. After an AI application is deployed, the resource instances permanently run. The resources required for running the real-time service are managed by ModelArts. ModelArts monitors the running statuses of each instance, ensuring high AI application reliability.
Customer Benefits

Using ModelArts, AI Farming now enjoys faster, enhanced AI development and inference. Besides, ModelArts aims to simplify AI development. For AI developers with different skill levels, ModelArts provides easy-to-use processes. It's helpful for traditional enterprises to go digital and intelligent, ModelArts paves the way with a comprehensive range of AI capabilities.