Tutorial 2 Intro – AI Zerocaliber: Edge Computing for Maritime IoT

Tutorial 2 Intro – AI Zerocaliber: Edge Computing for Maritime IoT

The maritime environment requires reliable IoT sensing systems that work with limited resources of energy and link budgets. In this tutorial we will focus on embedded systems design for maritime applications. We will present the physical constraints and challenges and the types of embedded systems in terms of system, hardware, and software. We will also discuss common algorithms used, computational acceleration methods, sensors, and actuators. We will focus on heterogenous computing platforms and power management solutions while we will demonstrate a performance comparison of different implementations. Part 1: Power management unit (PMU) developed for a smart-float surface vehicle. The unit accepts battery and solar panel inputs and provides regulated outputs for different devices and voltages. Each output can be disabled to conserve energy (powering down unnecessary equipment), measure each module’s power consumption, and provide a platform for smart energy handling on-board. Part 2: Custom IoT heterogeneous board prototype with a hydrophone input. We examine the performance impact of different cross-correlation implementations. Power and speed will be shown for each case explaining the benefits of each implementation. Part 3: A light version of the previous platform will demonstrate the expansion capabilities of hardware demonstrating control of different number of motors (DC, Stepper, R/C Servo) and the software simplification. Part 4: We will also present our agile heterogenous embedded platform which is under development that can scale up from smaller to complex functions and applications, based on the prototype boards presented. The Tile IoT System will have a small form factor, mechanical integration, and a variety of scalable capabilities.

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The tutorials consist of introduction presentation of 30 minutes and hands-on part of 60min. Tutorial hands-on and demos are divided in three groups which will rotate together every hour: