Solutions · 04
Microcontrollers
Kilobytes of memory, no operating system, and one battery for the life of the product. This is where nothing else runs at all.
The hardware
- Utility and industrial meters
- Vibration and condition sensors
- Logistics and cold chain tags
- Appliance and equipment controllers
What it has to work with
- Memory
- 64 KB to 2 MB
- Power
- One battery, measured in years
- Connectivity
- None, or a few short messages a day
- Missing
- An operating system, a GPU, a filesystem
01
Reading instruments
Turning a dial, a display or a raw signal into a number, on hardware that costs a few dollars.
02
Catching failures early
Hearing a bearing or a motor change before it breaks, from vibration and sound alone.
03
Watching goods in transit
Noticing the drop, the temperature excursion or the damage, on a tag that ships with the package.
Why not the cloud
There is usually no connection here, and no power budget to make one. There is no GPU to fall back on and no disk to page from. Methods that shrink a model by moving parts of it to storage have nothing to move it to. A model either fits in the memory on the chip or it does not run, and that constraint is what the whole method was built for.
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Building on hardware like this? Get in touch and we will work out what we can do together.