Project description
A cloud-based machine learning platform for super-smart devices
There is a growing need in the smart device manufacturing industry for integrated mass-scale solutions that combine non-intrusive user presence detection and intuitive gesture recognition without requiring supplemental hardware. The EU-funded IMIR-UP project aims to create a cloud-based machine learning as a service (MLaaS) platform that can easily integrate virtual sensors with smartphones and devices. The platform’s only requirement is that the users define the product’s operating environment (e.g. memory, storage, computation capacities, power consumption, mechanical setup and component characteristics) and select the desired range and sensitivity. Device manufacturers can subsequently be provided with a software integration package customised to their product and a set of machine learning classifiers.
Objective
Smart device manufacturers require constant innovation in order to improve their products while simultaneously reducing costs. Hardware-based solutions are expensive, requiring dedicated sensors and long deployment times to fully integrate them into devices, since they must be manually tuned and calibrated for each new type of application. This makes it difficult to customise such devices for different market segments and end-user needs. Furthermore, extra hardware requirements often compromise a device’s design, increasing their bulk and rendering them old-fashioned. Many hardware-based solutions also increase the risk to a user’s privacy and data security, such as those solutions involving cameras. As a result, manufacturers are adopting software-only solutions instead of hardware. However, they do not yet have a presence detection or gesture recognition solution ready for mass commercialization.
Elliptic Labs is the world leader in ultrasound sensing software for smart devices, enabling touchless interactions and gesture interpretation. INNER MAGIC and INNER REFLECTION (IMIR products) are the first-of-their-kind integrated solutions for non-intrusive user presence detection and intuitive gesture recognition, transforming smart devices into genius devices. The aim of the IMIR-UP Phase 2 project is to fully mature our award-winning and patented technology for easy, mass-scale (“plug-n-play”) deployment in any consumer electronic smart device without requiring supplemental hardware (software only). Bringing our innovative IMIR products to the mass market will positively disrupt existing touchless sensing technologies, resulting in an improved user ability to intuitively interact with their smart devices via a natural extension of normal human behaviour. We estimate that we will reach 651.21m smart devices (just 2.87% of our TAM) after the first 5 years of commercialisation, representing accumulated revenues and gross profits of €195.36m and €105.15m respectively.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processing
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- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinator
0180 Oslo
Norway
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.