Slides from our Live Stream with AI Processor Startup Greenwaves Technologies to Discuss the Trends Impacting Smart Building IoT Applications. We were joined by Martin Croome, VP of Marketing, GreenWaves Technologies. GreenWaves are a fabless semiconductor startup, based in Grenoble, France. They design ultra-low-power RISC-V processors which can interpret and transform data sources such as images, sounds and radar signals using AI, which can be used in many Smart Building IoT Edge Applications.

1. AI IoT Edge Applications
Insights & Trends
LIVE STREAM

4. Presented by:
Martin Croome
VP Marketing

5. 5
Who are we?
GreenWaves Technologies
• Fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2014
• We design and sell processors specialized in advanced signal
processing using AI and more at ultra low energy levels
• 42 people, mostly in Grenoble, France
• Offices in Bologna, Italy and Shanghai, China. Global sales
footprint.
• Recognised leader in embedding intelligence into highly energy
constrained devices
IoT
Wearables
Hearables
GAP9

6. What does AI in IoT mostly mean?
High dimensional features
(usually images)
Time series data
(movement, sound)
Deep Neural Network
Classification
- Is it a X?
Localisation/Segmentation
- Where is the X?
Anomaly detection
- Is the X in an unexpected
state?
Generative
- Generate something new
from X (i.e. a dynamic filter to
remove noise from a voice)

7. Why do this on device?
Cost
Transporting
data costs
money
Capacity
A huge amount
of the data is
uninteresting
Security
Moving data off
a device creates
a problem
Capability
Time to action is
crucial in some
cases
i.e. Cost & Feasibility

8. What are the key challenges?
A trained model
that gives
adequate
performance in
real life
situations
Reasonable
expectations of
performance
“Good” Data
Afterwards:
- Get it to run at a reasonable price/performance point for your application
Before:
- An imaginative understanding of AI capabilities applied to the
challenges of your business

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An example …
… everything was possible because we decided to go with our friends GreenWaves Technologies. We started to use the
GAP CPU, which is the heart of the system and is handling all the AI computations in a very power efficient way. There are
a lot of customers who hardly believe that it is possible to operate on the battery for 4 years still being able to deliver this
type of technology
Łukasz Szelejewski, CTO, Kontakt.io

10. 10
What is now possible?
Accurate person or object detection
with a few 100s of micro joules
Complex, multi stage pipelines that can run for
years on a battery
As usual combining industry
knowledge with technical possibility is
the key barrier

11. Where is this going?
More pervasive intelligence
Smarter sensors (at component level)
Sensors will embed ‘horizontal’
features e.g. Human voice wake-up in
microphone
Smarter products
Products will adapt intelligently to
their environment e.g. Sound adapts
to wearer and situation

12. 12 Company Proprietary
GREENWAVES TECHNOLOGIES
28 Cours Jean Jaurès
38000 Grenoble
France
www.greenwaves-technologies.com
Thank You