Explore the difference between computer vision models and applications and learn how they work together to harness real-time visual data for transformative business insights. Discover how alwaysAI simplifies the process, making computer vision accessible for enterprises.


AI Acronyms

What's the Difference Between a Model and an Application?

Generative AI, which creates content, and computer vision, which provides real-time visual insights for practical improvements, are two types of AI transforming the way businesses across industries operate. Learn how practical AI will best address your business pain points to drive more revenue.

ChatGPT vs Computer Vision

Computer Vision is Not Generative AI, It’s Practical AI

A computer vision platform is essential to leveraging the power of real-time visual data through object detection and tracking. alwaysAI is an end-to-end computer vision platform with all the tools and features enterprises need to take projects from start to finish. 

Learn about computer vision on alwaysAI's platform page

What is a Computer Vision Platform?

Computer vision is the only AI tech solution that provides the real-time, visual data restaurants need to improve operations and speed of service.

Computer vision can detect how many cars are in the drive-thru and the average wait time of customers in the drive thru.

Computer vision detects cars in drive thru lanes

The Best AI Technology for Restaurants to Drive More Revenue

With benefits like boosting revenue and productivity, investing in computer vision is a must for businesses that want to remain competitive in the coming years.

3 Reasons Computer Vision Is a Smart Investment

Computer vision is dramatically boosting ROI by improving operational efficiencies and automating tasks to save costs. 

alwaysAI Safety Monitoring Dashboard

Computer Vision is Driving Huge ROI for Businesses

Before adopting AI technology , it’s important to understand which solutions make the most sense for your business. Here are 7 important questions to ask.

Computer vision detecting people and PPE on oil rig

7 Questions Enterprises Should Ask Before Adopting AI Solutions

Infrared cameras equipped with computer vision make detecting objects in the dark possible. Explore more use cases and possibilities.

infrared cameras detecting people crossing the street

7 Best Use Cases for Computer Vision and Infrared Cameras

Trakwell and alwaysAI deployed our best-in-class object detection, counting, and tracking applications to more accurately track La-Z-Boy customers as they entered the store in real-time.

How alwaysAI and Trakwell Successfully Reduced False Person Detections in La-Z-Boy Stores by 81-

How alwaysAI and Trakwell Successfully Reduced False Person Detections in La-Z-Boy Stores by 81% 

Object detection is an incredibly valuable computer vision technique that provides enterprises with unprecedented insights into their operations. 

Computer vision detects people walking across the street

7 Object Detection Use Cases for Enterprises

Follow along as alwaysAI’s staff shares their favorite computer vision (CV) applications for Industry 4.0.

alwaysAI answers what computer vision application will have the greatest impact on industry 4.0.

What Computer Vision App Will Have the Greatest Impact on Industry 4.0

Follow along as alwaysAI Co-Founder and CEO, Marty Beard, discusses how computer vision is impacting industrial and manufacturing markets.

Follow along as alwaysAI Co-Founder and CEO, Marty Beard, discusses how Computer Vision improves productivity and safety of industrial manufacturing. 

The Business of Computer Vision: Industry 4.0

Discover four unique and effective ways construction companies are using computer vision to monitor safety and compliance in the workplace.

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4 Computer Vision Apps for Health and Safety on Your Construction Site

Computer vision AI is revolutionizing customer analytics. Learn how CV provides retailers with real-time data on foot traffic, brand preferences, and more.

5 Ways to Use Customer Analytics to Improve Customer Experience

Follow along as alwaysAI CEO, Marty Beard, describes how Computer Vision enables enterprises across all industries to gain real-time customer analytics.

The Business of Computer Vision: Customer Analytics

The Business of Computer Vision for Customer Analytics

Computer vision is revolutionizing foot traffic retail analytics. See how CV provides data on dwell time, time-in-store, hot spots, and more.

Computer vision is revolutionizing retail analytics. See how CV provides data on dwell time, time-in-store, hot spots, and more.

Retail Analytics: 5 Applications of Computer Vision

Computer vision has many applications to help construction companies increase profits. Here are five applications used the most in the industry.

Computer vision detecting trucks, cranes, and people on construction site 

Construction sites using object detection

The 5 Best Computer Vision Applications for Construction

Learn how computer vision improves customer experience and in-store and drive-thru operations for quick service restaurants.

Customer in drive-thru lane

How is Computer Vision Improving QSR Operations?

Computer vision is the part of AI that enables computers to analyze visual data and make decisions based on what they “see.”

Computer vision detection machines and people in a manufacturing plant

Computer vision in a manufacturing plant

Using Object Detection on IoT Devices

Computer vision fall detection apps using pose estimation are trained to detect peoples' movements and body poses, sending out alerts when someone falls.

Person helping someone after a fall

Automatic Fall Detection Using Computer Vision

Learn how computer vision can improve the contactless shopping experience - increasing customer satisfaction, driving revenue, and boosting efficiency.

Shopper using self-checkout in grocery store

How Contactless Shopping is Leveraging Computer Vision

Learn how computer vision object detection provides valuable business data across all industries, allowing stakeholders to respond to events in real-time.

City street intersection with cars, elevated train and pedestrians with bounding boxes detecting each object.

City street intersection

17 Interesting Applications of Object Detection for Businesses

Learn how alwaysAI's computer vision solution gives sports and entertainment venues unprecedented insights to manage risk and generate immense profit.

Fans cheering for their team at a sports stadium

Happy fans at sports stadium

Why Sports Venues Need to Invest in Computer Vision to Create a Better Fan Experience

Image recognition is an ever-evolving field with virtually limitless applications. Learn how you could implement it to save on costs and increase revenue.

Object detection detecting person, hand, and drill, in a manufacturing plant.

object detection

5 Business Applications for Image Recognition

To keep up with the endless demand for processed goods, manufacturers are turning towards computer vision to improve efficiencies and boost revenue.

alwaysAI Smart Manufacturing Improves Safety, Reduces Inefficiencies and Increases Revenue

Computer vision is more than “nice to have” technology for QSRs. Learn how to leverage CV to achieve huge ROI and beat the competition.

drive thru wait time detection

Think you don’t need Computer Vision in your QSR business? Think again.

Learn how to leverage computer vision to create a safer experience for all visitors to sports arenas.

Occupancy and zone detection outside stadium

Increase Safety in Sports Venues With alwaysAI Smart Venues

Computer vision offers powerful capabilities to collect and understand data in real-time to automate anomaly detection and improve manufacturing operations.

Empty cone detected on ice cream assembly line

Automated Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing

Innovative retailers look to computer vision to create intelligent video analytics solutions. Learn how to adopt this game-changing technology today.

retail zone detection

6 Reasons Why Your Retail Business Needs to Invest in Computer Vision

Retailers need to embrace computer vision to better serve their customers’ needs. Frictionless checkout from alwaysAI offers the ultimate shopping convenience.

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alwaysAI Smart Retail Offers Frictionless Capabilities to Create a Better Customer Experience and Drive More Revenue

Computer vision is an all-encompassing solution that can optimize processes, improve operations and safety, and significantly boost ROI. 

Computer Vision is The Tech Solution Construction Companies Need in 2023

Computer Vision Is the Tech Solution Construction Companies Need in 2023

Computer vision is helping fast-casual restaurants address labor shortages by improving operations and processes.

3 ways computer vision helps fast casual restaurants

3 Ways Technology is Helping Fast Casual Restaurants Overcome Labor Shortages

Remote Deployment allows enterprises to manage models, devices and apps, and deploy their computer vision applications from any location so they never miss out on critical real-time data that dramatically boosts ROI. 

alwaysAI Remote Deployment Device Status and Application Status

4 Reasons Computer Vision Engineers Need alwaysAI Remote Deployment 

Check out this awesome article by Li Kang Yu, about Machine Learning, Robotics and Computer Vision and how these three fields relate to each other.

Computer vision used to detect people and bicycles on a busy boardwalk.

Computer vision detecting people and bicycles

Robotics, Machine Learning & Computer Vision - Guest Post

Marty Beard, alwaysAI's CEO, and Steve Longley, alwaysAI board member, recently spoke with Neal Bloom on Fresh Brewed Tech’s Tacos + Tech Podcast.

alwaysAI's CEO, Marty Beard and lead investor, Longley Capital, featured on Fresh Brewed Tech's Tacos and Tech podcast

alwaysAI's joins Fresh Brewed Tech's podcast, Tacos and Tech

How alwaysAI is Fulfilling Its Mission to Make Computer Vision Easy and Accessible to Businesses Across Industries

Many different YOLO models claim to be the best. Newer doesn’t mean better. Learn how to choose the correct YOLO version based on your needs.

yolo architectures

What YOLO Model Architecture Is Best for You?

Here's a brief overview of the history of computer vision, how CV started, what CV is now, where it might be going, and how you can use it.  

Computer vision being used for traffic analytics

Cars, traffic signs, and people being detected

History of Computer Vision and Its Principles

Computer vision model training. We show you different components of model training and how alwaysAI makes the process more simple and approachable.

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Introduction to Computer Vision Model Training

Open source might seem like an easy solution to the challenges of computer vision development. But there are hidden costs. Instead, look to the alwaysAI computer vision platform.

Happy business man that used alwaysAI for computer vision

Happy business man 

Open Source Complexity vs. alwaysAI Simplicity

Together alwaysAI and Formant can provide unparalleled insights and capabilities from robotic fleets to help enterprises make better business decisions.

Formant Spot

Leverage the Power of Robots for Business With alwaysAI and Formant

Learn all about object tracking and how to use re-identification with computer vision platforms for improved business operations.

alwaysAI's What is Object Tracking and Re-Identification blog

Object tracking and re-identification detecting people in a grocery store

What is Object Tracking and Re-Identification

Data annotation is used to label and train computer vision models. Learn how to properly annotate models to create valuable business applications with alwaysAI.

Data Annotation

How to Annotate Data for Machine Learning

While there are many options out there for employing CV technology, few compare to the alwaysAI CV platform. Learn more about its offerings here.

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How alwaysAI Is Different From Other Computer Vision Platforms

Learn how to leverage computer vision for real-time analytics and explore use cases in retail, manufacturing, and transportation.


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Unlock Physical Space Analytics with Computer Vision

Preparing your business for computer vision is easy with alwaysAI!  We created an in-depth guide taking you through the essential steps, questions to ask, and best practices for implementing computer vision in your business. This article highlights the key points of the guide.

Customers using alwaysAI

Learn How to Automate Your Business With Computer Vision

This guide explores the landscape of AI-powered video analytics and how the data insights they offer greatly benefit businesses across all industries. 

Computer vision can detect how long a person has been in a zone of a retail store.

Shopper and products detected in retail store

The Guide to AI-Powered Video Analytics

Learn about privacy-preserving computer vision applications that drive meaningful insights for businesses and boost ROI.

alwaysAI's privacy-preserving computer vision applications

People blurred in a retail store

How to Preserve Data Privacy With Computer Vision

The future of computer vision is undeniable and brighter than ever. Read to learn why we're excited.

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It's Time to Focus on Computer Vision

Investigate the challenges and solutions in developing and deploying computer vision applications, as well as the benefits of edge deployment.

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Computer Vision on the Edge

"How-to guide on preparing your alwaysAI application for deploying with balena easily and quickly."

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Deploying computer vision applications with Balena and alwaysAI

Ask us questions about setting up an edge device, building a CV application, or general inquiries related to computer vision and alwaysAI!

HHH 24

Hacky Hour 24: Open Office Hour 1/28/21

Learn how computer vision empowers businesses to improve their business operations, protect their assets and employees, and drive their top-line revenue.

Learn how computer vision empowers businesses to improve their business operations, protect their assets and employees, and drive their top-line revenues! 

https://alwaysai.co/blog/automation-video

The Business of Computer Vision: CV Supports Automation and Boosts ROI

This Hacky Hour was packed with excitement! We reviewed the new features of NVIDIA Jetson Jetpack 4.6, and announced the release of awaysAI's edgeIQ 1.8.0.

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Hacky Hour 38: NVIDIA Jetson JetPack 4.6 support with alwaysAI edgeIQ

Test your Hacky Hour knowledge on alwaysAI and computer vision!

Hacky Hour Trivia

Hacky Hour 20: Hacky Hour Trivia

We took our CV platform to hackathons at the top universities in California. Here are some of the projects highlighting the most interesting Use Cases.

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6 Industries Computer Vision Will Change: Use Cases from Hackathons

Steve Griset, alwaysAI® Co-Founder and CTO, was nominated for the 2021 Top Tech Awards in San Diego! Learn about the awards and why Steve was nominated.

alwaysAI's CTO and Co-Founder, Steve Griset, get nominated for Top Tech Awards 2021.

alwaysAI Gets Nominated for Top Tech Awards 2021

alwaysAI® CTO, Steve Griset, Nominated for 2021 Top Tech Awards

CEO Marty Beard gave a compelling talk about the benefits of computer vision, and inspired the audience to consider the use of alwaysAI platform.

alwaysAI's booth at the 2019 AI & Big Data Expo

2019 AI & Big Data Expo

alwaysAI at the 2019 AI & Big Data Expo

A teacher and his students are using robotics and the alwaysAI platform to help implement social distancing measures and prevent the spread of COVID-19.

alwaysAI's computer vision platform is used by a teacher and his students at Pascal English School in Larnaka.

A Teacher and His Students Use Robotics & alwaysAI to Fight COVID-19

Learn how computer vision enables enterprises to achieve higher ROI through lower development costs and higher top-line revenues.

The Business of Computer Vision: CV Drives ROI

A demo on how to quickly generate a dataset, and train a model using alwaysAI. 

Identify a package

Hacky Hour 18, 19, & 21: Identify a Package at the DoorStep

David Tischler returned to Hacky Hour this week to highlight how developers can deploy computer vision applications on multiple NVIDIA Jetson devices.

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Deploying on Multiple Jetson Devices with balenaEtcher

A Computer Vision Webinar featuring alwaysAI CEO, Marty Beard, Marcos Barrera, of Seafloor Systems and Leo Cohen, of Editek. 

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Webinar Highlights - Computer Vision is Changing the World

Today we showed how users can build their own virtual green screen using the alwaysAI platform