Smart Retail is a trend in retail industrial market, and many applications of it such as digital signage, video wall and kiosk create massive amount s of data. This data is overwhelming legacy networks, centralizes data centers, and today’s cloud computing infrastructure. Real-time decision making is key without incurring high network round trip cost and is rapidly driving demand for localized data analytics, storage, and processing that can’t be met by legacy cloud technologies. Portwell IWOS (Intelligent Workload Orchestrator System) based on Intel^® Modular Edge Computing Architecture(Intel^® MEC Arch) is installed at the edge to address this demand and provides the flexibility and power to deal with multiple workloads in a centralized system.

Portwell IWOS System is focused on enabling workload consolidation in the edge devices such as Retail, Banking, Education and Hospitality. Portwell IWOS series system, a multi-functional 5U/4U server grade with dual/quad MEC Arch modules system, powered by Intel^® Xeon E-2278GE 3.3GHz. Portwell IWOS System conceptually partitions the processing system into two domains. The first domain was validated to work with multiples MEC Arch modules, which supports PCIe Acceleration cards like HDDL (High Density Deep Learning) and other off the shelf PCIe cards, providing the scalability to support current and future workloads such as video and analytic applications. The second domain is the baseboard of the system, which provides connection for MEC Arch modules. This provides the mechanical mounting point, power along with physically and electrically standard connectors and interfaces (PCIe, USB, SATA, Ethernet, and so on). It is intended that MEC Arch modules will be interoperable with various IWOS baseboards/systems.

Portwell IWOS system solves the complex processor hardware and firmware design challenges and provides the system designer with an easy to integrate complete processing building block to create their solution.