Category: internetofthings

Exploring open hardware/software at the cutting Edge with HiPEAC

achievements, internetofthings, research, wearable

ACACES is an annual summer school organised by the HiPEAC project (High Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation). Giovanni Ansaloni has given a four day series of lectures at the 2024 iteration of this prestigious event Maintaining rapid growth in computing performance is key for tackling the societal challenges shaping Europe and assuring our global competitiveness (…)

OpenScience video features CoughVid Dataset

biomedical, carouselvideo, health, internetofthings, research

The EPFL OpenScience Movement has featured the dataset of our CoughVid project as an example of how to keep data open to use by all scientists around the world: Read more about CoughVid and the CoughVid Dataset

The second X-Agora is a great success

internetofthings, research, wearable

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HEEPocrates featured in EUROPRACTICE report

achievements, biomedical, internetofthings, research, wearable

An article on the HEEPocrates chip has been published in the EUROPRACTICE Activity Report 2023. EUROPRACTICE was launched by the European Commission in 1995 as a successor of EUROCHIP (1989-1995) to enhance European industrial competitiveness in the global market. A detailed breakdown of the chip and its component processes and features is presented in the (…)

Digipredict: what is a digital twin?

biomedical, carouselvideo, health, internetofthings, presentationvideo, research, wearable

X-HEEP community is growing fast: X-Agora at EPFL

achievements, internetofthings, memory, research, wearable

The Internet of Things is expanding at an incredible rate, and consequently demands for ever smaller intelligent hardware are constantly increasing. The Embedded Systems Lab has collaborated with other EPFL teams and EcoCloud to design X-HEEP: a RISC-V chip which is aimed at tiny platforms with big jobs to do. The X-HEEP platform is open (…)

WaSTeLeSS – using AI and IoT to track every drop of water

carouselvideo, internetofthings, research

Water is a valuable commodity: Dr. Michael Burry, who predicted (and profited from) the sub-prime crisis, famously turned his attention to investing in water thereafter. By 2050 the United Nations World Water Development Report predicts that nearly 6 billion people will suffer from clean water scarcity. In an effort to minimize the waste of water, (…)

Flavio Ponzina presents paper on edge AI acceleration at Embedded Systems Week

achievements, internetofthings, memory, presentationvideo, research, servers

Dr Flavio Ponzina, who recently defended his PhD thesis on Hardware-Software co-design Methodologies for Edge AI Optimization, presented a paper entitled “Overflow-free compute memories for edge AI acceleration” at Embedded Systems Week, which took place in Hamburg. The video of his presentation is below: 

New framework for Epilepsy Benchmarks presented at MHDTE

achievements, biomedical, health, internetofthings, research

Yesterday we presented our work on a unified framework for the validation of epileptic seizure detection algorithms at MHDTE. This should finally give us the tools to build a benchmark of the best algorithms. Check it out on https://eslweb.epfl.ch/epilepsybenchmarks/

ACM Fellow Prof. Atienza: Shaping Sustainable Computing & Edge AI

achievements, internetofthings, research, thermalaware, thermalsoc

David Atienza, director of the EPFL EcoCloud Center, was interviewed by the organisation Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) on the occasion of a presentation that he gave as a Distinguished Speaker and Fellow. Here is a summary of that conversation. While a core focus of your research has been embedded systems, you have branched out (…)