A computerized system was developed to spray weeds that grow intermixed with crops. A system was developed that places a camera on a moving appliance that covers twelve rows of crops at a time and has 12 spray nozzles attached, one for each row. Moving at approximately two miles per hour, the camera captures data and the ZISC chips determine if the spray head is over ground, crop or weed. If it's over weeds, the spray head is activated. In this type of environment, a full size computer just can't be used.
Face recognition is one example.
If your pattern is recognized, access can be granted to software or to a specific location. If this technology was incorporated into a video camera at your front door, your house could actually unlock automatically and the front door open as you approached. Real-time monitoring is another area well suited to ZISC chips. In France, a system is being used to count the number of people that go through a particular area each day. Since the system can continue to learn, it knows the difference between a head and a backpack, for example.