Qualcomm has announced that it has reached a Agreement to Buy Edge Impulsea company that will allow you to improve your offer for developers and to increase your capabilities to boost IoT products and services. The purchase, therefore, is part of Qualcomm’s intention to advance in IoT transformation, for which it has a complete road map on Chipsets, unified software architecture, a package of services, resources for developers, an ecosystem of partners, complete solutions and IoT projects. All in order to address the needs and challenges of the industry.
Edge Impulse has developed an end -to -end AI platform that currently uses around 170,000 developers to create, deploy and monitor AI models with ease in different types of devices in the EDGE. In addition, offer support to various microcontrollers and processors of multiple suppliers through AI accelerators.
This platform includes a package of tools and functions for the collection and preparation of data, as well as for the training of models, its deployment and subsequent monitoring. All with a simple handling interface and without using code (or using very little) to take advantage of.
Developers can use the Edge Impulse platform to develop solutions for various types of applications. For example, for tracking and monitoring of assets, for manufacturing, detection of anomalies and failures or for predictive maintenance systems. To do this, they have various functions of AI, among which are computer vision, voice recognition or sound -related events.
With this purchase, Qualcomm will give access to developers who work with the EDGE platform promotes the possibility of developing for Qualcomm Dragonwing processors, which offer computer vision capabilities, graphics and process and inference to integrated. Its integration with Qualcomm AI will also allow to improve the optimization of AI models for Qualcomm platforms.
Currently, Edge Impulse is already compatible with the Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and it is planned to add compatibility progressively with other dragonwing chips for industrial and integrated IoT applications. After the purchase, Edge Impulse will keep its website and operational, and will continue to support and support its partners and developer ecosystem.
According to Nakul Duggal, General Responsible for Computing Cloud and IoT for Automotive, Industry and Integrated from Qualcommstressed that thanks to this operation they can «significantly improve IoT’s offer with the advanced end to the end of Edge Impulse, which will complement our strategic approach to the IoT transformation. We believe that this purchase will reinforce our leadership in training for developers and in AI, improving our ability to offer complete technology for critical sectors. Such as retail, security, energy and supplies, supply chain and asset management management«.
