Happy new year! 2022 was an incredible year for Edge Impulse. From launching new features and partnerships, to receiving industry recognition, to hosting our second annual Imagine event to great fanfare, we’ve had so much to celebrate, and so we’ve rounded up some of our most notable achievements from the past 12 months to share and enjoy.
We’re grateful to all of our users, customers, and supporters who have helped make these accomplishments possible. Thank you for being a part of our journey.
Here’s to an even bigger and better 2023!
Stats, Growth, Accomplishments
- 60K registered developers
- 140K ML projects
- 4K public projects
- 115M data samples
- Edge AI + Vision Product of the Year Award for Best Developer Tool
- Edge Impulse named Cool Vendor by Gartner
- Edge Impulse is named the leader in the "40 Technology Companies to Watch in 2023” by ABI Research
- VISION Award 2022 finalist
- University Program: More than 350 R&D units from over 79 countries enrolled. Over 3,000 Tiny Machine Learning Kits distributed
Ecosystem
- Enabled digital health data and ML workflows for wearables market leaders Oura, Know Labs, and NoWatch
- Onboarded new enterprises addressing key challenges in industrial edge AI: Lexmark, Ecolab, Brambles, NASA, and more
Partners
- New hardware targets released:
- Alif E7
- Alif and Bosch Sensortec
- Arduino Nicla Sense ME
- Arduino Nicla Vision
- Espressif ESP32
- Infineon PSOC 62
- Nordic Thingy:53
- OpenMV firmware build
- Silicon Labs xG24
- Synaptics Katana
- Seeed Grove Vision AI
- Raspberry Pi RP2040
- Renesas RA6M
- Renesas RZ V2/L
- Texas Instruments TDA4VM
- BrainChip Akida
Events
- Imagine 2022: Three days, 200 attendees, 11 presentations, 8 lightning talks, 7 tech talks, 6 workshops, demos, and more
- All the announcements made at Imagine
- Watch it all again!
Day 1 — Keynotes
Day 2 — Workshops and Tech Talks
Day 3 — Developer Discussions - Edge ML Series: Over 300 attendees across six cities in Europe
2022 Announcements
- Simon Segars joins the Edge Impulse board
- FOMO (Faster Objects, More Objects)
- Edge Impulse’s first paper
- Edge Impulse Announces Bosch Sensortec Support for Edge ML Sensing Applications
- Reference Designs
- Conservation X Labs’ Sentinel AI Camera
- Lexmark Optra Edge
- Arduino launches its Edge Impulse-powered ML hub: mltools.arduino.cc
New Features
- Bring Your Own Model Into Edge Impulse with ONNX
- Announcing Performance Calibration
- EON Tuner Search Space and Custom Block Support
- Announcing Project Collaboration for Free Users
- Getting Started Wizard: Train Your First Keyword Spotting Model in Under 5 Minutes
- Sensor Fusion with Machine Learning on Edge Impulse
- AI-Assisted Labeling for Object Detection
- Advanced Anomaly Detection with Feature Importance
Popular Projects
- AI-Powered Smart Toaster
- Automated Yard Processes Using tinyML
- Smart Smoke Alarm Thermal Imaging
- Wearable Cough Sensor and Monitoring
- Appliances Identifier Smart Energy Meter
- Thermal Image Anomaly Detection with tinyML
- Detecting Worker Accidents with Audio Classification
- Automated Inventory Management with FOMO
- Mosquitoes Classification Using Wingbeat Sound
- Location Identification by Sound
- Smart Bike Suspension System
- Elevator Passenger Counting Using Computer Vision
- Learn to Putt Like the Pros with Golf Ace
- Forest Fire Detection
- Smart Cashier with FOMO
- Pet Activity Tracking
- Car Parking Occupancy Detection
- Fall Detection System for Senior Citizens
- Elevator Anomaly Detection
- Shield Bot Autonomous Security Robot
- Indoor CO2 Level Estimation Using ML
- GetFit Workout Tracker
- Surface Crack Detection and Localization
- ESD Protection Using Computer Vision
- Bicycle Blind Spot Detection
- Oil Tank Measurement and Delivery Improvement
- Adaptable Vision Counters for Smart Industries
- Manufactured PCBs Defects Detection
- Warehouse Shipment Monitoring
- Analyzing Crops in Remote Greenhouses
- Acoustic Pipe Leak Detection
- Running Faucet Detection with Cellular Alerts
- Adding Machine Learning to micro-ROS Robotics Projects
- Edge-to-Cloud Machine Learning Pipeline with Azure
- Fungal Pneumonia Detector
Featured POCs
- Gas Detection in the O&G Industry
- Illegal Logging Detection
- Outdoor Activity Tracker
- Analog Meter Reading
- Occupancy Sensing
- Workplace Organizer
Developer Challenges
- TinyML Challenge: Smart Weather Station
- K-Way x Arduino
- Smarter Sustainable World Challenge (Nordic Semiconductor)
- IoT Into the Wild Challenge (Seeed Studio)
- Spresense Developer Challenge 2022 (Sony)
- Project of the Month
- Take it to the Edge (Monthly Hackster Challenge)
Talks, Interviews, and Demos
- ML on the Edge Episode 1: Simon Segars
- ML on the Edge Episode 2: Ben Gibbs
- MLOps AMA
- Useful Sensors x Edge Impulse AMA
- Building Products with ML Inside (Hardware Pioneers Max)
- How to Supercharge Your Edge ML Application (Hardware Pioneers Max)
- tinyML Talks: Constrained Object Detection on Microcontrollers with FOMO
- TI Connect: Embedded Machine Learning for IoT with Edge Impulse
- Zach Shelby Discusses Enabling Edge ML Everywhere (Embedded Vision Summit)
- Jan Jongboom Discusses Real-Time Object Detection on MCUs (Embedded Vision Summit)
- Screw and Washer Detection with FOMO (Embedded Vision Summit)
- Wildlife Monitoring Demo with Sony Spresense (Embedded Vision Summit)
- Giving Your LoRaWAN Device Eyes and Ears (The Things Conference)
- Silicon Labs EFR32MG24 Machine Vision with Edge Impulse (Embedded World)
- Wevolver Fireside Chat with Daniel Situnayake
- ML and Privacy at the Edge with Daniel Situnayake
- tinyML Trailblazers with Zach Shelby
- Making the Impossible, Possible with Aurelien Lequertier (Applied Machine Learning Days)
Webinars to Rewatch
- Perfecting Factory 5.0 with SparkFun and NVIDIA
- Arm AI Tech Talk: FOMO
- Bringing Development of BrainChip Akida Neuromorphic Models to All
- Edge ML for Health and Safety Monitoring
- Privacy-Friendly Advertising Panels, Powered by AI
- How ML Can Help with Predictive Maintenance for Industrial Applications
- Exploring the Power of Synaptics’ Katana with Edge Impulse
- Embedded AI Development Made Easy with Texas Instruments
- Combining 4G LTE and TinyML with Edge Impulse and Sony Spresense
- Accelerating Innovation on the IoT Edge with Integrated SIM
In the News
- The Next Web
- Business Insider
- TechTarget
- VentureBeat
- Elektor
- EE Times: #1 / #2 / #3
- Hackster.io
- Hackaday
- All About Circuits
- eeNews Europe: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4