As the year draws to a close, we're reflecting on some of the incredible milestones we achieved and the things that made 2024 unforgettable. From groundbreaking product launches to exciting partnerships, we’ve had a year full of innovation, collaboration, and growth.
So without further ado, join us as we revisit the moments that helped shape our year and made Edge Impulse the leading edge AI development platform.
Edge AI Insights Unlocked
Our must-read reports and eBooks of 2024
5 Rising AI Trends for AI Adoption in Manufacturing
This year, we explored the transformative power of edge AI across industries. Kicking off the must-read eBook and reports category of Favorite Things 2024 is our survey report, 5 Rising AI Trends for AI Adoption in Manufacturing.
Discover insights from Edge Impulse customers and manufacturing leaders in the U.S., U.K., and Canada on their plans to adopt AI, motivations behind this adoption, the goals manufacturers have, and how they are applying AI and ML in their operations.
The Business Case for Edge AI
There’s much excitement surrounding edge AI. In our Business Case for Edge AI eBook, you’ll discover why. Learn how the technology works, explore real-world applications across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and smart cities, and learn how edge AI enhances efficiency, privacy, and responsiveness.
Powering Smart Manufacturing with Edge AI
The manufacturing sector continues to evolve and transform with innovative technologies such as edge AI leading the way. If you missed it, now is a great time to dive into our Powering Smart Manufacturing with Edge AI eBook.
We cover how to unlock innovation, efficiency, and growth with edge AI. This guide also explores Industry 4.0 and how interconnected technologies like IoT, big data analytics, and AI are revolutionizing manufacturing operations, and much more.
The Ultimate Guide to Edge AI
We’ve got you covered on your edge AI journey. Whether you’re exploring edge AI possibilities or ready to scale your implementation, Edge Impulse’s The Ultimate Guide to Edge AI: The Playbook for Edge AI Business Transformation is your roadmap to success.
Packed with actionable insights, real-world case studies, and essential tools including a user-friendly ROI calculator, edge AI readiness assessment checklist, and a roadmap, this comprehensive guide will help you make smarter decisions, accelerate deployment, and maximize the value of intelligence at the edge.
Wevolver's Edge AI Technology Report: Generative AI Edition
Are you ready to take a deep dive into the convergence of generative AI and edge computing? The latest edge AI technology report from Wevolver featuring Edge Impulse examines how generative AI is being integrated into edge computing and explores the implications for the future of technology.
Get up to speed on gen AI across edge devices, industry trends, market analysis, innovation drivers, and more.
Milestones That Made Waves
Impactful wins of 2024
Developer Community Milestone
What a year of growth and recognition. We grew the Edge Impulse developer community from 100k developers to 160k, a 62.5% increase. There’s never been a better time to join our premier edge AI community.
FOMO-AD: Best in Show Award at Embedded World, NA
We were delighted to be recognized as a Best in Show winner in the AI & Machine Learning category at Embedded World North America for FOMO™-AD (Faster Objects More Objects) Edge Impulse’s technology for unlocking visual anomaly detection on any edge device, from NVIDIA GPUs to Arm MCUs.
Bringing LLMs to the Edge with GPT-4o and NVIDIA TAO
Large Language Models (LLMs) at the edge? Yes. This question comes up frequently in conversations, and Edge Impulse created a functionality that shows just one of the powerful ways that LLMs can be utilized on the edge, using GPT-4o to help train a 2,000,000x smaller model that runs directly on device. Watch the demo in this video:
Build vs. Buy (ROI calculator)
If you’ve been weighing the pros and cons of in-house development vs. a platform like Edge Impulse for your AI strategy, now is your chance to get answers. Edge Impulse provides the advantage of a proven, scalable solution that eliminates the complexities of in-house development, while providing cost efficiency, faster deployment, and access to expert enterprise-grade support.
Want proof? Launch the user-friendly ROI calculator to help you make informed decisions for your next project.
Unlock Advanced AI Features with the Pro Plan
In May, 2024, we announced the launch of the Professional Plan, a cost-effective self-service option that allows you to unlock advanced features in Edge Impulse for your projects. Designed for developers, ML engineers, and large companies ready to explore edge AI, this mid-tier plan supports your journey from initial edge AI use to successful deployment.
Get Certified in Edge AI
Edge AI is a fast-growing field enabling new technologies, especially in healthcare and industrial settings. That’s why we launched our high-level course to help you become familiar with the concepts and vocabulary around edge AI. There are no hands-on exercises or programming required.
Learn about edge computing, machine learning (ML), the edge AI life cycle, edge MLOPs, real-world case studies, and more.
The 25 Hottest IoT And 5G Services Companies: 2024 Edge Computing 100
We were thrilled to be recognized as one of the hottest companies specializing in 5G, IoT and edge services as part of CRN’s 2024 Edge Computing 100.
The Stage & Spotlight
Outstanding events of 2024
From NVIDIA GTC and Embedded World to Imagine, conference keynotes and show floor interviews, we connected with the edge AI community around the globe. Revisit some of our biggest moments.
Imagine 2024
Our fourth annual Imagine conference set a new benchmark for edge AI. Companies including NVIDIA, Arm, AWS, Capgemini and Nestlé Purina discussed how their organizations are maximizing the technology, as industrial edge AI moves from R&D into production-scale deployments.
Learn how edge AI is solving real-world problems, and the unveiling of Edge Impulse’s own groundbreaking tools. Relive the highlights here.
Embedded World (Nuremberg)
2024 was our biggest presence yet at Embedded World in Nuremberg this past April. Packed with demos, interviews, a book signing, presentations, partner connections and more, it was a great opportunity to share the transformative power of edge AI with the audience.
GTC 2024
We were thrilled to have one of our biggest product launches of the year announced at NVIDIA GTC 2024– Optimizing NVIDIA AI for the Edge. Our announcement received a number of press mentions, and imagine our surprise when NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stopped by our booth.
Most Attended Webinars of 2024
Thousands joined us this year for our cutting-edge webinars, and you can still watch them on demand. Our top webinars included:
Unlocking Edge AI: Advanced Features of Edge Impulse
Gen AI for the Edge: Harnessing the Power of LLMs on Edge Devices
Synthetic Data for the Edge: Speed up ML Development with NVIDIA Ominverse and Edge Impulse
Unlocking the Future of Industrial with Advanced Acoustic and Vibration Monitoring
Harnessing Edge Machine Learning, From Your Wrist to Your Factory
It’s not too late to level up your edge AI expertise by watching these knowledge-packed sessions.
Hanover Messe 2024 — Industrial Intelligence in Action
We had an incredible week at the world’s largest event for industrial innovation back in April. Here’s what made it special:
- Featured presentation on industrial intelligence
- Live demo that showcased our latest innovation - leveraging synthetic data and computer vision in embedded edge AI applications
- Book signing and meet-and-greet with our team
- Meaningful conversations with hundreds of tech innovators
Thanks again to everyone who engaged with us.
Why Most IoT Projects Fail Expert Video Interview
During The Things Industries conference in Amsterdam, our Staff Solutions Engineer Jim Bruges explained why most IoT projects fail, and provided insights on the key to IoT success: it lies in the business case behind the technology. Without a clear business value, even the most advanced IoT solutions may never make it to production.
A Winning Debut at Embedded World, North America
Edge Impulse made its EWNA debut in Austin, TX, this past October. Partnering with Advantech, we showcased the iCAM540 —an NVIDIA Jetson Orin-based camera featuring Edge Impulse software. Our booth sparked many engaging conversations about our edge AI innovations. And, of course, the highlight of the event was winning the Best in Show award in the AI/ML category for our groundbreaking machine learning architecture, Fast Objects, More Objects–Anomaly Detection (FOMO™-AD).
Edge AI Mastery at Work
Community projects showcase
Our technical experts pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, turning edge AI possibilities into real-world solutions. Explore their transformative projects.
Robotic Arm for Sorting and Packaging Applications
Industrial environments have proven to be fertile ground for edge AI innovation. In this expert-led project, our experts created a robotic system efficient for object sorting and placement in dynamic environments, using computer vision to guide the robotic arm. The system can provide flexibility, accuracy, and efficiency for industrial or domestic tasks.
Learn more about this seemingly simple but surprisingly complex project and how it might be useful to your AI projects.
Reducing Manual Labor with FOMO™ — OpenMV Cam RT1062
Learn how to automate the process of detecting and counting objects on a conveyor belt, improving efficiency and reducing manual labor. Using the FOMO object detection algorithm and Edge Impulse with the OpenMV Cam RT1062A, this real-time visualization application provides immediate feedback, allowing you to monitor and control the process accurately.
Stories that Moved Us in 2024
Customer success and use cases
Life-changing innovations powered by edge AI made waves this year. See how our technology is making a difference with our favorite customer success stories and use cases.
Revolutionizing Fall Detection with Edge AI
The prevalence of falls among the elderly and those with limited mobility is a significant factor for personal safety and independence.
Learn how a healthcare company specializing in elderly care revolutionized fall detection with edge AI.
Bringing Voice Control to Earbuds and Headsets
When one of the best-known brands in business and personal productivity hardware set out to build their next generation of wireless headphone hardware, they turned to Edge Impulse to provide a functionality that had never been done before.
Learn how Edge Impulse technology enabled a cutting edge voice-control feature, built directly into their headphones, to allow users the ability to answer or decline phone calls from their connected devices.
Driving New Standards in Automotive Diagnostics with Edge AI
A San Diego-based technology startup is transforming how sound can be used as a powerful tool for extracting deep significance from generally common events. How? By developing an innovative solution for fault diagnostics and collision detection using a new onboard device powered by audio-detection algorithms.
Turning a Cough Detection Model into Actionable Insights
A respiratory wellness company imported the world’s largest cough dataset into Edge Impulse. Their goal? Generate a cough detection model capable of fitting on an Arm Cortex-M33 processor. After failed attempts using a traditional approach, the company successfully created AI models that are not only effective in cough detection but also compatible and efficient on various devices, including high-performance hardware with low latency and small memory footprints.
Innovation in Action
Product breakthroughs and launches
In 2024, we pushed edge AI technology further than ever before. Here are some of the breakthroughs that defined our year:
Spot Anomalies Instantly with FOMO™-AD
Our anomaly detection architecture, FOMO™-AD, identifies unusual patterns or anomalies in image data that do not conform to the expected behavior. These models are crucial in various applications, including industrial inspection, medical imaging, and logistics.
Designed for real-life scenarios, especially for unanticipated defects, FOMO™-AD is available for your production-ready edge AI pipelines.
Unlocking NVIDIA AI Capabilities for Any Edge Device
In March, we made our biggest platform announcement of the year when we revealed that we had unlocked previously inaccessible NVIDIA AI capabilities for edge devices. Edge Impulse provided the only way for developers to deploy NVIDIA technology directly to MCUs and CPUs with NVIDIA TAO and Omniverse, alongside our launch of native support for NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware.
Deploying State-of-the-Art Edge AI Models to Arm Microcontrollers
Accelerating time to market is one of our core value propositions, and our integration with Arm® Keil® MDK earlier this year further demonstrates that commitment. This integration provides over 300,000 embedded and firmware Arm developers and engineers with seamless access to cutting-edge AI and machine learning models. By simplifying and enhancing collaboration across teams within the Edge Impulse platform, it enables faster development cycles and accelerates the time to market for edge AI products.
Edge Impulse Goes Industrial
What better way to enhance our annual edge AI conference than making big product announcements? At Imagine 2024, we did just that by unveiling groundbreaking new edge AI solutions for Industrial environments. In typical Edge Impulse fashion, we went beyond the “traditional” or “standard”.
YOLO-Pro unlocks industrial object detection with a model built from the ground up to outperform existing YOLO architectures.
Application Behavior allows you to optimize your model with your end goal in mind, and goes beyond, providing the ability to train an ML pipeline that is tuned based on your application.
Model Monitoring provides the ability to scale your deployment and monitoring of your models in production and detect potential issues fast.These tools are available to Enterprise Plan users only.
Better Together
2024 partnership wins
In 2024, we grew stronger through collaboration. Here’s how we expanded our partnership ecosystem:
Wind River/Edge Impulse — enabling advanced edge AI models for diverse devices and use cases.
STMicroelectronics/Edge Impulse — to develop new capabilities for edge AI deployments.
Ceva/Edge Impulse — to enable faster,easier deployment of edge AI applications
Ambiq/Edge Impulse — to enable lower-power, scalable AI
CELUS/Edge Impulse — to revolutionize AI-driven electronics designs
ZEDEDA/Edge Impulse — to accelerate AI at the edge
Alif/Edge Impulse — Upgraded edge deployments with powerful computer vision and full support for Nvidia's TAO toolkit
AWS/Edge Impulse — AWS IoT Greengrass deployment integration to manage edge IoT fleets