Elvis sees all in Russia

Elvis has left the building and attached himself to its side in Russia, performing smart analytic camera surveillance there for everything from identifying bad guys, to counting people to license-plate recognition. The Electronnye Vychislitelno Informatsionnye Systemy (Elvis-Neotek CJSC) (Zelenograd), known as Elvees within Russia, claims to have the first chip designed in Russia that is smarter than its US, Europe and Asia counterparts. Its first video intelligent processor, VIP-1, is the heart of its IP surveillance business which comes in many form factors in Russia, but for the international market they are scaling the system-on-chip (SoC) down from 40 to 28nm at TSMC and planning to sell it as a bare-chip overseas.

"The key feature of VIP-1 is that it is an embedded, dedicated video processor with unique capacity for video analytics and semantic processing of video images," Yaroslav Petrichkovich, president of Elvis-Neotek, told EE Times through his interpreter/spokesman. "We use 40nm, because this is the first chip with our architecture and we need to try out our solutions in silicon, in real systems and on commercial markets, we are already working on a more powerful 28nm chip."

Elvis-Neotek was the brainchild of the Rusnano Management Compsany LLC which provided its seed funding on the promise that semantics or the meaning of speech and images could be determined on a single chip capable of making the ubiquitous surveillance camera so smart that it does not need to send the raw data stream back to personnel, but instead can identify the objects-of-interest, thus taking the guess work, and diligence factor, out of low-paid workers staring at surveillance screens 24/7.

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