Hosted Software Platform
LTU engine/ON demand is a hosted software platform that provides access to LTU Tech’s comprehensive image recognition functionalities. The LTU engine/ON demand platform is highly flexible and is designed to adjust and scale with changing demands.
A single account for LTU engine/ON demand can be used to add image recognition functionality to multiple applications.
Administration Console
The LTU engine/ON demand Administrative Console is accessed via.
URL: https://www.ltu-engine.com/
See the Administrative Interface section below.
LTU engine/ON demand has the same Administrative Interface as the licensed version of LTU Tech software: LTU engine/server.
Some aspects unique to LTU engine/ON demand found in comments marked with this symbol:
Application Programmming Interfaces
JSON API: the JSON API is the recommended API for new applications. The licensed version of LTU engine includes the JSON API, which facilitates the porting of applications from LTU engine/ON demand to LTU engine/server. Query examples in the JSON API documentation generally reference LTU engine/server.
LTU engine/ON demand users will know to adjust the query examples to the proper /ON demand references.
Integration Check List
Below is a quick checklist to help prepare for the integration of LTU engine/ON demand.
- Signature type - What feature(s) needed? (similarity, matching, color)
- Storage
- Estimate the number of images that will be included for the application
- Estimate the image volume changes per month on this application
- Search
- Estimate number of searches per month
- Development
- List the public IP addresses of all machines that will make direct calls to the API interface.
- Launch sample code provided by LTU Tech to check that everything works
- Start development and unit test
- Validate (pay attention at the refresh delay per application)
- Empty the database and start loading content for the application
- Production
- Monitor the number of queries per month (also available on the LTU engine/ON demand administrative console)
- Continuously evaluate the capacity used monthly in terms of queries and image database volume