Accelerate VLM Development with AI Fusion Kit
The first barrier in any multimodal LLM project is often not about the model itself, but about the hardware. Looking for a powerful computing platform, a high-quality camera, and a sensitive microphone can take a lot of time and effort. What's worse, these components may not work well together, leading to a tangled web of driver issues, compatibility conflicts, and frustrating debugging sessions before your real work even begins.
The AI Fusion Kit is designed to eliminate these challenges entirely. It is a complete, out-of-the-box solution where every component works seamlessly together.
The All-In-One Hardware Solution
Here’s what’s inside:
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The Brain: AVerMedia D315AOB-2 or D133SOXB Box PC
The heart of the kit is our powerful box PC, built around an NVIDIA® Jetson module. The D315AOB-2 features the AGX Orin for maximum performance, while the D133SOXB uses the Orin NX for a more compact solution. Both configurations include a pre-installed, high-speed NVMe SSD that ensures rapid data access for your containers and models.
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The Eyes: AVerMedia PW513 Webcam
This high-quality webcam delivers crisp video streams with a wide field of view, enabling comprehensive scene analysis for your AI applications.
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The Ears & Mouth: AVerMedia AS311 Speakerphone
The omnidirectional microphone with built-in AI noise reduction and echo cancellation ensures the AI can clearly hear user requests.
The true power of the AI Fusion Kit isn't just the quality of the components, but their seamless integration. All the components are crafted by AVerMedia, ensuring guaranteed compatibility across all components. This provides you with a stable foundation for development, allowing you to focus on innovation, not integration.
The SDK: See the Power in Action
Building a real-time multimodal AI application on Jetson can be tricky. You need to manage the devices, handle the multimedia streams, and ensure the AI can extract the desired data from the stream. While you could build everything from scratch using libraries like GStreamer, OpenCV, or PyAudio, this approach presents numerous challenges and pitfalls that can consume weeks of development time.
That's where our SDK comes in. It is a complete, out-of-the-box solution that allows you to focus on the core application development, without worrying about how to handle the devices and streams. The AI Fusion Kit comes with a pre-built VLM demo application. This demo not only demonstrates the power of vision-language models but also showcases the core functionalities of our SDK, proving that we've already solved the complex integration challenges for you.
Here's what the demo shows:
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Easy-to-use Device Management
The first thing you'll notice is that the application automatically detects all the AVerMedia devices, and the configuration is extremely easy. The video format, resolution, and frame rate are all selectable from the dropdown menu. The "Advanced Control" popup even provides more detailed settings like brightness, contrast, and the noise reduction level (for PW513).
Intuitive device management with dropdown menus.
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Seamless, Low-Latency Streaming
After you click the "Start Camera" button, you'll see the live camera feed on the left—smooth, stable, and low-latency. The SDK supports multiple output formats: create RTSP streams for network broadcasting, record video directly to files, or stream via WebRTC for seamless web application integration (though WebRTC isn't demonstrated in this particular demo).
You will see the live camera feed on the left.
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On-Demand Data for AI Models
The demo showcases how easily AI models can get the data they need. When the VLM is ready for a new image, our SDK provides a simple function to grab the latest frame in the exact format required. Likewise, for speech recognition, the SDK delivers a continuous audio stream that the ASR client can process on the fly.
Of course, handling multimedia is only half the story. To bring your application to life, you need a powerful and flexible way to run the AI models themselves.
This is where the AI Fusion Kit truly empowers you. On the Jetson platform, you have the freedom to use the cutting-edge tools you already know and love. You can deploy your LLMs and VLMs with your favorite high-performance inference engines, like vLLM, Ollama, or SGLang. The platform is yours to command, allowing you to choose the best framework for your specific model and application needs.
The demo application showcases a production-ready, multi-container architecture consisting of:
- A custom-built, optimized container that manages multimedia processing through our SDK while providing an intuitive GUI interface
- A local LLM/VLM server powered by vLLM, a high-performance inference engine optimized for large language models
- A local NVIDIA® Riva server delivering enterprise-grade Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities
You can directly see how the application runs in real time in our latest unboxing video for the AI Fusion Kit.
The Future is Pythonic
We understand that the AI landscape nowadays is dominated by Python. Hundreds and thousands of libraries, frameworks, and toolkits, from training to inference, provide easy-to-use Python interfaces.
That's why we are excited to announce that a user-friendly, feature-rich Python API for our SDK will be released in the near future!
The upcoming Python API will further bridge the gap between multimedia hardware and AI applications. Say goodbye to complicated integration workflows and verbose GStreamer code, for you'll be able to dedicate your full attention to AI innovation while we handle the underlying complexity.
Conclusion: VLM Development Has Never Been Easier
The journey from an idea to a working prototype is filled with challenges, but the AI Fusion Kit is designed to remove the frustrating obstacles for you. With this all-in-one solution, you get:
- A complete, pre-validated hardware solution with a single point of contact for technical support
- A powerful SDK that manages the complexities of real-time video and audio
- An out-of-the-box VLM demo application to quickly test the capability of VLMs on Jetson
Ready to accelerate your AI development? The AI Fusion Kit handles the infrastructure complexity so you can focus on what matters most: building innovative AI solutions.