A Brief History of Embedded AI

How sensor hubs on smartphones helped bring artificial intelligence to the edge

AIoT, TinyML, EdgeAI and MLSensors are the latest buzz words in the Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems communities. There’s plenty of hype around designing highly optimised, low footprint machine learning algorithms that run on ultra low power microcontrollers and DSPs targeted at sensing applications including but not limited to audio and video. This approach is particularly useful in ‘always-on’ applications where power consumption needs to be minimised and …

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