About Deep Sortx
One problem: making the sorting decision stick.
Deep Sortx is based in Hefei and focuses on colour sorters and industrial vision inspection. Imaging, edge inference, valve timing, HMI and model training are developed as one stack, with a team carrying more than ten years of sorting industry work.
Company
Started in Hefei, built around core devices
Deep Sortx develops technology for vision sorting. The founding team has more than ten years of experience in the sorting industry, with deployed projects in colour sorters and industrial vision inspection. The company supplies the layers that make those machines work: the CMOS camera, the AI edge box, the valve board and ejection strategy, the industrial panel PC and the model training platform.
Edge computing and training method work keep image inference below 1 ms on production hardware without giving up accuracy. Imaging extends from visible light to NIR, hyperspectral and X-ray, with custom development for material that standard cameras cannot separate.
Mechanical design capability and supply chain resources sit alongside the electronics: drawings go to sheet metal production, valves and optics are procured, and installed machines receive model and firmware upgrades remotely.
Technical position
Three decisions that shape the product
The product line follows from how the team believes sorting hardware should be built.
Own the imaging chain
The CMOS sensor, FPGA algorithms and edge inference are designed as one chain, so a defect decision is not passed between three vendors at 20 kHz.
Timing decides the ratio
Valve board layout, hardware driving and ejection strategy are developed together: 0.3 ms open and 0.2 ms close is what protects Purity Ratio and carry-over.
Keep the model in the customer's hands
The training platform lets a sorting team annotate, train and download a model, then deploy it to the edge box when the material changes.
Research and delivery
From electronics to sheet metal
A sorting machine is more than a camera and a model. The team covers the parts that usually slow a project down after the algorithm works.
Mechanical design
Frames, enclosures and mounting reviewed with the camera, light and valve layout.
Sheet metal production
Reviewed drawings taken through to batch sheet metal production, not just a CAD file.
Supply chain procurement
Valves, optics and structural parts sourced alongside the electronics delivery.
Remote upgrade and IoT
Firmware, recipes and models updated across installed machines over the IoT layer.
Development
How the platform took shape
Each stage added a layer that the other stages depend on, which is why the modules are specified together today.
Stage 01
Camera and FPGA algorithm validation
The CMOS camera platform and FPGA vision algorithms proven on sorting tasks in the laboratory.
Stage 02
Colour sorter valve integration
Custom valve boards and ejection strategy developed with sorter builders, from board layout to field timing.
Stage 03
Edge compute and training platform
12T and 48T edge boxes on 8-core ARM, plus an in-house annotation and training platform for model iteration.
Stage 04
HMI, panel PC and IoT
Linux HMI on an industrial panel PC rated -20 °C to 70 °C, with remote control, monitoring and upgrades.
Stage 05
Multi-industry deployment
Applications extended from grain and tea to herbal material, ore and metal, each with its own spectral path.
OEM integration
Colour sorter and sorting machine builders
Cameras, edge boxes and valve boards supplied into your machine design with matched interfaces and timing.
System integration
Line integrators and turnkey project teams
Complete imaging, inference and ejection set for lines that combine several process stages.
Custom development
Ore, metal and special material projects
Spectral path, model training, mechanics and procurement developed jointly for material that standard configurations cannot handle.
Build the next machine with the whole loop.
Whether you need modules into an existing platform or a new imaging path, the conversation starts with your material and your machine.