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IoT seems to have crossed its Hype Cycle peak somewhere in 2016 and is well heading into the Troughs of Despair. The ubiquitous IoT device still remains the mobile phone with people preferring to use more of the integrated sensors in mobiles rather than discrete sensors.
Artificial Intelligence has been assuming significance beyond academic debates in the past couple of years. Google and Facebook claims that they now have face recognition systems based on AI that can beat humans at the task.
Among all market segments addressed by the integrated circuit (IC) industry, Industrial is probably the most diverse with applications ranging from plant automation, power conversion (including conventional and alternative), remote monitoring, robotics, security, battery management, man machine interfaces (MMI), general sense & actuation etc. Add to this the natural adjacency to automotive and medical, and …
Industrial IC design: Functional Safety and Smart Embedded Processing Read More »
Since the Industrial Revolution, industries have been looking at key parameters like productivity, quality assurance and cost reduction and ways of improving them. From production lines pioneered by Henry Ford in 1913 to just-in-time manufacturing techniques evolved at Japanese plants like Toyota to the state-of-the-art automated robotics-based production lines in Western Europe, industries have undergone …
How Traditional Industries are Embracing AI Technologies Read More »
Ignitarium, a leading product engineering design house and provider of AI software and AVerMedia, a multinational company specializing in hardware for image capture and video transmission announce the rollout of a new class of aircraft-based railway track anomaly detection solutions, for the global railroad maintenance industry. Ignitarium has been working on a whole spectrum of …
Ignitarium and AVerMedia Launch AI-driven Airborne Railway Track Inspection Solution Read More »
Ignitarium has expanded its board of directors with the addition of Insta Health Founder and ex-Wipro veteran, Mr. Ramesh Emani. Ramesh was the Founder and CEO of Insta Health Solutions, a healthcare software company providing hospital and clinic management solutions in India, Middle East, South East Asia and Africa. The company was acquired by Practo …
Industry Veteran Ramesh Emani joins the board of Ignitarium Read More »
The partnership allows Ignitarium to accelerate implementation of compact neural networks on Arm platforms, especially targeting Audio AI solutions on Arm Cortex-M class devices.Ignitarium, a global product engineering company with expertise in Video and Audio AI solutions, today announced it has joined the Arm AI Partner Program. Cost sensitive Audio applications like off-line voice recognition, …
Ignitarium is now part of the Arm AI Partner Program Read More »
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a new field; researchers have been working with AI since the 1950s. Today, AI is helping to make all modes of transportation safer and more efficient by identifying potential risks, tracking vehicles or monitoring traffic lights to improve safety. For decades, railways around the world have suffered from lack of …
We are proud to announce the launch of our new Audio AI platform, SeptraTM. The platform implements auditory deep learning algorithms to deliver ultra-optimized voice and sound analytics solutions on highly constrained edge devices. Cost-sensitive audio applications like off-line voice recognition, noise suppression or sound effect classification are now being implemented on memory and compute-limited hardware such as …
Civil infrastructure maintenance is a constant challenge across the globe. This multi-billion dollar market – covering upkeep of assets like rail tracks, roadways, canals, bridges, cellular towers, power transmission towers, and pipelines – has till recently relied on traditional methods that were manual labor-intensive
The benefits of Batch Normalization in training are well known for the reduction of internal covariate shift and hence optimizing the training to converge faster. This article tries to bring in a different perspective, where the quantization loss is recovered with the help of Batch Normalization layer, thus retaining the accuracy of the model. The article also gives a simplified implementation of Batch Normalization to reduce the load on edge devices which generally will have constraints on computation of neural network models.
Ignitarium announced today the company’s position in the latest Zinnov Zones ratings for Engineering Research & Development Services in 2020. According to the annual report prepared by the global management consulting firm recognized for their insights into the digital transformation market, Ignitarium has been rated as an Expansive and Emerging player in the AI and IoT engineering services. The company has also been recognized as a Niche and Emerging player in the Automotive, Semiconductor, and ADAS markets.
Internet Of Things (IoT) is arguably one of the most important technologies of this century. It is driving us to a rapidly digitized world. The hype around IoT has been around for some time, and a common phrase that one often hears was, “We will have 1 billion connected devices.” This was flying around during the 2013-2015 …
Secure OTA – Advanced Security for the IoT World Read More »
As people around the world prepare to get back to work in the new normal, workplaces are leveraging cutting-edge tech-driven solutions to ensure safety standards for all. AI-driven computer vision systems are being deployed by companies to enforce and monitor social distancing, detecting violations of face masks and safety jackets on their premises. As governments …
AI-driven Face Mask and Attire Detection for the new normal Read More »
We are proud to be awarded the ISO 9001:2015 certification, an internationally recognized standard that ensures that our products and services meet the needs of our clients through an effective quality management system. We have developed and implemented our quality management system in order to improve overall performance, maintain a high level of quality, and …
Remember your first train ride? Depending on where in the world you grew up and when the memory differs. Mine is from the 1970s in India: a trip back to my ancestral home in Kerala. From the minute the engine blows its resoundingly loud whistle, there’s magic in the air...
Tightening security by accelerating updates for security bugs and features has become one of the prime necessities of the connected world. The faster you roll out updates, the better these vulnerabilities can be plugged in. The intent is to create media frameworks which are extensible; partners can continue to extend media codecs and media format …
Android Codec 2.0: Developing Multimedia Applications for newer Android Platforms Read More »
Deep Learning has provided a major boost to computer vision’s already rapidly expanding reach. A lot of new applications of computer vision technologies have been implemented with Deep Learning and are now becoming a part of our daily lives.
The vision of Robots and Humans working together has been popularized by numerous Hollywood movies, comic books and the media for many decades now. Success stories about the application of automation in the manufacturing industry date back to the early 1980’s, when welding robots demonstrated efficiency and resilience to deliver on time and increased the overall …
The Role of Autonomous Mobile Robots in a Post-pandemic World Read More »
Mixed-Signal Verification Challenges As the complexity of Mixed-signal designs increase, so does the need to have an exhaustive, structured, and scalable approach towards the verification of such designs. Digital Verification already has such a methodology (Universal Verification Methodology), which has proven to be very successful in taping out complex digital designs with high quality and …
Despite the ubiquitous presence of voice assistants in our homes and workplaces, the technological intricacies of how automatic speech recognition works continue to amaze us. One of the most crucial aspects that determines the accuracy of a good voice assistant is based on testing it in generalized real-world environments, which unfortunately is very difficult to …
Simulating Real World Audio for Voice Command Engine Read More »
Business photo created by freepik.com As the global manufacturing industry faces the pressures of bringing to market multiple variants of the highest quality products in the shortest possible time, a shift towards AI-driven automation across all functions has become inevitable. In quality inspection, AI-driven computer vision systems are already enabling the streamlining of the production …
Deep Learning based Computer Vision System for Automated Tyre Defect Detection Read More »
We’re thrilled to be featured on Arm’s new case study regarding #Ignitarium’s Noise Suppression IP for Arm Cortex-M processors. Ignitarium has come up with a deep learning-based real-time noise suppression software that can run on low-cost microcontrollers. To counter stationary and non-stationary noises, a traditional DSP approach is not sufficient. This requires certain hybrid models including a …
Lean, green and renewable energy are some of the buzzwords of the last decade. Beyond the buzz, there’s the real grassroots level transformation that their adoption is bringing across our beautiful blue planet, critical to the survival of mankind as we know it.
Ignitarium is excited to announce the opening of its new office at Yokohama, Japan, strengthening its presence in the APAC market while it gears up for its fast-approaching 10th anniversary. This strategic expansion is a further step in Ignitarium’s journey as a key player in the Semiconductor, Embedded and AI space with a global footprint spanning APAC, North America and Europe. The company has its headquarters at Bengaluru, India.
Roads and water canals have historically been opening up channels of commerce in economies across the world and continue to do so even today. The socio-economic development of many countries has been linked to the development and maintenance of infrastructure.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), also called Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), refers to an accurate image processing system used for detecting and reading vehicle number plates. It uses an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) component on images of number plates that are captured at high speed, to detect individual characters on the number plate and …
Vision AI powered Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) for Japan Read More »
The need for Automatic Speech Command Recognition (ASCR / ASR) on IoT devices is gaining traction because of the increased interest in non-touch-based applications. This article introduces a new lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) for ASR on microcontrollers.
In all critical applications like aircrafts, medical equipment and automobiles, there is a requirement for the systems to be reliable and safe. These requirements are important since human lives are at stake, which have led to the development of safety standards in various industries. The basic idea behind functional safety is that the overall system …
Automotive Hardware Functional Safety (FuSa) Features: ISO 26262 Read More »
In today’s world, hardware platforms are growing in complexity and reducing the time to market for these platforms is key to capturing the market segment. Gone are the days when the hardware was considered as a critical piece; customers now expect the board to be delivered as a package containing world-class hardware infrastructure with reliable …
A cost-effective debug solution using OpenOCD for hardware platforms Read More »
Ignitarium is proud to announce that it is now a member of the Arm Functional Safety Partnership Program. Over the years, Ignitarium has built expertise on the Arm family of processors specifically on Automotive SoC. The team provides value-added services to partners and customers in the areas of Functional safety SDK, supporting them in achieving …
Ignitarium joins Arm’s Functional Safety Partnership Program Read More »
Artificial Intelligence has become all-pervasive, by finding applications in areas which seemed impossible earlier. Deep Learning, which is a subfield of Machine Learning, has become a state-of-the-art solution to all AI problems due to its high accuracy and efficiency. It helps in making real time decisions in applications like Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Robots, …
Hardware Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Models on FPGA ( Part 1 of 2) Read More »
While Part 1 of this 2-part blog series covered Deep Neural Networks and the different accelerators for implementing Deep Neural Network Models, Part 2 will talk about different Deep Learning Frameworks and hardware frameworks provided by FPGA Vendors. Deep Learning Frameworks: Deep learning framework can be considered as a tool or library that helps us to …
Hardware Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Models on FPGA (Part 2 of 2) Read More »
Across global industries, AI-driven computer vision systems are enabling the streamlining of the production process so that the products are compliant with the quality criteria set by the company. This in turn brings in advantages of greater efficiency, lower operational costs while enabling 24/7 production and quicker decision making. Producing defect-free footwear is not easy. …
Footwear defect detection using Vision Intelligence Systems Read More »
In this webinar series, you will be introduced to ROS – what it is and what it is not. You will be guided through the world of ROS architecture, its components and tools, so you can get a quick start in this space.
Cellular technology has leapfrogged in the past few decades offering users unparalleled access to on the go services and opening up infinite possibilities. The current standard mobile device now has many applications like navigation, web browsing, instant messaging, e-commerce, payment gateways, streaming content etc. to name a few. With current 3G and 4G networks, a …
A must-have checklist for every System / SoC architect to arrive at an optimal Functional Safety (FuSa) Architecture for an Automotive chip.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand this in a single shot, let’s get some hands-on experience and have fun doing this. First, find below the basic structure one needs to visualize before understanding the concept behind ‘git codes.’ Starting from the Remote Repository, it can be either GitHub (or) GitLab; from there we clone it …
The Top 6 reasons eBook gives you a low-down on why engineers are choosing FPGA for high computing tasks in products.
The term Sound Event Classification (SEC), also called Acoustic Event Classification or Audio Event Classification, is the process of acquiring audio signals from an audio source, analysing the acquired signals to detect events that...
We hope you enjoyed the blog on Git Commands for Beginners. In part 2 of this series let’s try understanding the basics of GitHub. Here, we’ll cover key fundamentals: Creating an account in GitHub Creating repository (repo) & pushing code to the repo Creating branches and making merge requests. Creating an account in GitHub: GitHub …
In the last 40 years, more than 22,000 people were killed at U.S. railroad crossings*. But data shows that railroad crossings have become safer over time, thanks to the installation of gates and lights at more crossings, timed traffic signals and increased public education efforts. Helping further with these efforts are several noted companies and …
Computer Vision and AI-based Railroad Crossing Detection Read More »
In this podcast, Ignitarium Cofounder & CEO, Sanjay Jayakumar talks about his early days in Wipro, moving into leadership positions while there and his plunge into entrepreneurship with founding Ignitarium along with a few trusted colleagues. He also discusses the key aspect of how Ignitarium's culture of innovation and continuous learning has enabled adding value …
Genesis of a company with Sanjay Jayakumar | Podcast Read More »
Let’s dive into Part 3 of the blog series ‘Getting Started with Git’. In this blog, we will explore the basics of GitLab. A few fundamentals of GitLab that will be covered are: Creating a project and cloning itCreating branches, making changes and pushing back to GitLab Creating a Project and cloning it You can …