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Breaking Entry Barriers to AI with ASUS NUC Mini PCs

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Question:

How can businesses cut through the noise and build a practical, scalable AI solution—without overhauling operations?

Answer:

ASUS NUC Mini PC.

Small and medium-sized businesses are embracing ASUS NUCs—compact and reliable solutions that offer the power to handle AI workloads for a wide range of scenarioses and in almost any environment.

Below are links to just a few success stories. See how organizations worldwide are driving real results with AI solutions powered by ASUS NUCs!


NUC In Retail

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Conversational AI for Drive-Throughs Systems

Sodaclick: This conversational AI leader transforms self-service experiences with natural, real-time interactions. Sodaclick uses ASUS NUCs—combined with Intel® OpenVINO—to localize and deploy LLMs directly at the edge with ease, developing conversational AI assistants that can take customer orders.
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Real Time Shopper’s Insights with AI

meldCX®: meldCX created the Viana platform to help retailers optimize customer journeys using vision analytics. Leveraging the powerful performance and global support offered with ASUS NUC solutions, meldCX has enabled real-time insights and improved staff efficiency.
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Quividi: With ASUS NUC 13 Pro, Quividi delivers real-time audience analytics at the edge, overcoming common challenges such as frequent legacy-device downtimes or maintenance issues. One retailer using the Quividi solution with ASUS NUC achieved a 20% sales lift by tailoring content based on live foot traffic data.
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Safety and Surveillance

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Smart AI Monitoring for Equipment Usage and Store Layout

Indoor Informatics: Cold gyms often lack staff. To compensate for this, Indoor Informatics developed an AI-powered surveillance system, enabled by ASUS NUCs, that pairs existing security cameras with their GymPlus solution to monitor equipment usage and space traffic in real time. The system provided key information that helped owners adjust staffing levels based on the busiest times, helping optimize overall staffing costs.
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AI-Powered Security Surveillance

Aira: Aira’s AI tracking solutions utilize ASUS NUCs to analyze camera feeds in shopping centers, construction sites and other commercial buildings, detecting unusual behavior and notifying staff instantly—enhancing safety and response times. With global ASUS NUC support and hardware availability, Aira ensures fast, reliable deployment to partners worldwide.
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Sustainability

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AI-Driven Identification Tools for Recycling

Alta: Sustainability startup Alta in Vietnam uses ASUS NUC in its Recycle Depot system to power AI that recognizes recyclable materials.
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Arts & Entertainment

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Using NUC to Power Global Teams Creating Blockbuster Movies with DNEG

DNEG: A top VFX studio behind major hits like Avatar and The Last of Us, DNEG deploys thousands of ASUS NUCs that are used to access their virtual machines, providing artists and creators across its global teams with access to run intensive 3D rendering and machine learning tasks.
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Supercomputing

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Desktop Supercomputing for Access to Machine Learning

Hoonify: Disproving the idea that supercomputing requires massive data centers, Hoonify uses ASUS NUCs to deliver turnkey high-performance parallel computing solutions with their TurbOS platform, in order to power machine learning tasks.
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