# Metro AI Suite
Edge AI Suites are collections of open, industry-specific AI software development kits (SDKs),
microservices, and sample applications for independent software vendors (ISVs),
system integrators, and solution builders. The Metro AI Suite focuses on **accelerating
development** of Edge AI solutions for **safety and security, smart city, and transportation**.

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Achieve High Performance
See how to get the most out of your hardware, using Open Edge Platform components.
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Migrate from Nvidia Ecosystem
See what options you have to use Open Edge Platform components with your AI solutions based on
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Improve Security
Learn how to make your AI solutions more secure, on the example of the Smart Intersection Agent
& Smart Intersection Agent sample app.
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Customize Visual AI Kit
A selection of tutorials that will walk you through creating Metro Vision AI
based solutions, from setting up your first application to running inference data
processing pipelines.
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A comprehensive development environment for computer vision applications using Intel’s optimized tools and frameworks.
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A comprehensive development environment for generative AI applications using Intel’s optimized tools and microservices.
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A comprehensive demonstration environment for computer vision applications using Intel’s optimized tools and frameworks.
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## Metro AI Suite Samples
**Visual AI Demo Kit**
- [Visual AI Demo Kit](https://github.com/open-edge-platform/edge-ai-suites/blob/release-2026.2.0/metro-ai-suite/metro-vision-ai-app-recipe/README.md): Demo kit and sample collection for Metro Vision AI use cases.
- [Smart Intersection](./edge-ai-suites/smart-intersection/index.md): A demo kit sample for using AI and multiple camera feeds to improve traffic flow control.
- [Smart Parking](./edge-ai-suites/smart-parking/index.md): A demo kit sample for parking management in real-time.
- [Loitering Detection](./edge-ai-suites/loitering-detection/index.md): A demo kit sample for detecting and monitoring human presence.
**Live Video Analysis**
- [Live Video Search](./edge-ai-suites/live-video-search/index.md): A sample that enables semantic search on live Frigate streams.
- [Live Video Alert Agent](./edge-ai-suites/live-video-alert-agent/index.md): An agent for AI-powered real-time alerting for live video streams.
- [Live Video Captioning](./edge-ai-suites/live-video-captioning/index.md): AI-powered analytics and captioning for live RTSP video streams.
- [Live Video Captioning RAG](./edge-ai-suites/live-captioning-rag/index.md): RAG-based captioning, used by the Live Video Captioning app.
**Other Metro Samples**
- [Agentic Predictive Maintenance Pipeline](./edge-ai-suites/ai-suite-metro/agentic-predictive-maintenance-pipeline/index.md): A sample that demonstrates predictive maintenance using multi-agent reasoning.
- [Agentic Smart Community](./edge-ai-suites/ai-suite-metro/agentic-smart-community/index.md): A sample that demonstrates a smart community using multi-agent reasoning.
- [Enterprise Data Intelligence](./edge-ai-suites/ai-suite-metro/enterprise-data-intelligence/index.md): An agent-native automation platform for end-to-end enterprise data intelligence.
- [Image-based Video Search](./edge-ai-suites/image-based-video-search/index.md): A sample that detects and retrieves objects in large video datasets in real time.
- [Visual Search and Q&A](./edge-ai-suites/visual-search-question-and-answering/index.md): An AI assistant with multi-modal contextual search engine for providing more relevant answers.
- [Sensor Fusion for Traffic Management](./edge-ai-suites/sensor-fusion-for-traffic-management/index.md): A sensor fusion framework for intelligent monitoring of traffic in fog, rain, or darkness.
- [Smart NVR](./edge-ai-suites/smart-nvr/index.md): Convert conventional network video recorders into intelligent, context-aware systems.
- [Video Processing for NVR](./edge-ai-suites/video-processing-for-nvr/index.md): Evaluate and optimize video processing workflows for network video recorders.
- [Smart Traffic Intersection Agent](./edge-ai-suites/smart-traffic-intersection-agent/index.md): An agent for analyzing and managing traffic scenarios at intersections.
- [Smart Route Planning Agent](./edge-ai-suites/smart-route-planning-agent/index.md): An agent for route optimization that uses multi-agent communication.
- [Video Search and Summarization](./edge-ai-libraries/video-search-and-summarization/index.md): Search through videos and summarize them.
- [VMS Adapter Plugin](./edge-ai-suites/vms-adapter-plugin/index.md): A plugin for integrating AI Analytics Applications with third-party video management systems.
## Software Development
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Metro SDK
Metro SDK for application- and framework-level development in Metro AI Suite.
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Video Processing Platform SDK
SDK for optimized, low-level, performance-critical video pipeline development on Intel® hardware.
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OpenVINO™ Toolkit
Optimizes and deploys AI models across Intel® hardware in cloud, edge, and on premises environments.
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OpenVINO™ Model Server
Hosts AI models via networks, e.g. enabling Smart Parking to share a single vehicle-detection model.
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Deep Learning Streamer (DL Streamer)
Open-source GStreamer framework-based media analytics framework used by video-centric applications.
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DL Streamer Pipeline Server
Python code-based, containerized microservice for video analytics pipelines built using DL Streamer.
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## Tools
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Intel® Edge System Qualification
Benchmarks and qualifies Intel® hardware for optimal system selection, e.g., Smart Parking system.
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Geti™ Software
Builds production-ready vision models for deployment in applications, e.g. Smart Parking.
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Visual Pipeline And Platform Evaluation Tool
Benchmarks end-to-end visual analytics pipelines, e.g. Smart Parking pipelines, on Intel® hardware.
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Scenescape
Fuses multi camera and sensor data into a spatial scene model, e.g. for Smart Parking scene.
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## Blueprints
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A blueprint for creating end-to-end pipelines powered by distributed AI agents for monitoring
critical infrastructure. It includes implementations of a Vision AI and Multimodal use cases,
both covering the common three-unit architecture, multi-agent reasoning layer, and deployment
principles.
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A blueprint for creating a digital twin of a building for operational efficiency, predictive
maintenance, and enhanced safety.\
A demo will be available for download in the following weeks.
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