Golioth debuts AI-ready IoT infrastructure for developers
IoT development platform vendor Golioth announced its new AI-ready IoT infrastructure for microcontrollers designed to streamline AI training, deployment and model execution on IoT data, both on devices and in the cloud. With this release and new partnerships, Golioth is empowering enterprise customers to integrate AI into their operations through the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), to innovate and improve products faster.
The IoT industry is notably complex, with over 4 trillion decision permutations facing embedded engineers. As AI adoption increases across industries, Golioth’s new AI capabilities aim to simplify integrating AI into IoT products by reducing the decision load with flexible AI infrastructure. Key features include streaming large unstructured data files such as images and audio, targeted over-the-air (OTA) updates for AI models and integrations with AI platforms, including Edge Impulse, Replicate and Hugging Face within the Golioth Pipelines product.
“When IoT developers are still struggling with basic IoT infrastructure problems like connectivity and device security, AI—while a very real business priority—can really slow down IoT projects,” Jonathan Beri, Golioth, founder and CEO, explained in a media statement. “Golioth simplifies IoT development by providing IoT infrastructure as middleware. Adding AI into the development workflow in a low-friction way positions Golioth as the platform of choice for building AI-enabled applications, making it easier for companies to deploy, manage and continuously improve AI models with IoT data.”
Golioth’s Key AI Features
To enable AI on IoT devices, Golioth has focused on delivering three key features:
Large Unstructured Data Streaming
Golioth supports streaming rich media data such as images and audio from devices to the cloud for analysis and training. This capability allows developers to use high-resolution images from AI-connected cameras in computer vision applications, or audio clips from security sensors or natural language processors, for advanced analysis. Partnering with Edge Impulse, Golioth can stream IoT data directly for advanced model training, unlocking new data sources for creating and refining AI models.
“The integration of Edge Impulse and Golioth takes the complexity out of deploying edge AI models and IoT tools,” says Zach Shelby, CEO and co-founder of Edge Impulse. “It’s a great match for solving real use cases, from predictive maintenance to environmental monitoring to cargo tracking and more and will drive exciting innovation in many areas.”
Golioth also supports object storage destinations including AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage, providing flexible and scalable options for storing and analysing large datasets.
Flexible OTA Updates
Golioth’s OTA system now supports larger artefacts and a broader range of asset types, including AI models and media files. This enhancement simplifies the deployment of AI models to devices, ensuring that models remain up-to-date with the latest capabilities and facilitating efficient model deployment and updates.
Tomas Beklin, CTO of Flox Robotics remarks, “Golioth’s flexible OTA updates and large image upload capabilities have accelerated our product development. These features allow us to quickly deploy AI deterrent systems to keep wild animals away from areas where they are not supposed to be.”
New AI Pipelines Integrations
Golioth Pipelines now supports running AI models on live IoT data, integrating with leading AI platforms like Hugging Face and Replicate, as well as OpenAI and Anthropic. This allows companies to perform advanced AI analysis on IoT data both on devices and in the cloud, enabling AI-driven insights and automation by routing results to any cloud destination. The integration also allows companies to leverage AI in the cloud without modifying existing devices or requiring specialised hardware to run AI models at the edge.
Golioth for AI limited-time launch exclusives
In support of the launch, Golioth is offering a $1000 credit to new customers now through October 31st, 2024. As a bonus, new customers who launch any size fleet and start streaming within 30 days of activation can enjoy an additional $1000 credit on any AI-related data destination. In addition, Replicate is offering a $500 credit to any new customers from Golioth.