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It is little things like this successful project using the Edge Impulse platform which I find AKIDA technology affirming:
“Gesture Appliances Control with Pose Detection - BrainChip AKD1000
Control your TV, Air Conditioner or Lightbulb by just pointing your finger at them, using the BrainChip AKD1000 achieving great accuracy and low power consumption.
Created By: Christopher Mendez
Public Project Link: https://studio.edgeimpulse.com/public/319871/latest
Introduction
Today more than ever we live with smart devices and personal assistants that work together to make our environment a more comfortable, efficient and personalized place. This project aims to contribute to the same field by suggesting a radical change in how we interact with smart things.
Sometimes it can be inconvenient to have to ask a personal assistant to turn our appliances on or off. Because it's simply too late at night to be talking, or because we're watching our favorite movie and we don't want annoying audio interrupting us.
This is why I thought "What if we could control the whole house with just gestures?" It would be amazing to just point to the air conditioner and turn it on, turn off the light, and turn on our TV.
Hardware and Software Requirements
To develop this project we will use a BrainChip Akida Development Kit and a Logitech BRIO 4K Webcam, together with an Edge Impulse Machine Learning model for pose identification………..
Conclusion
This project leverages the Brainchip Akida Neuromorphic Hardware Accelerator to propose an innovative solution to home automation. It can be optimized to work as a daily used gadget that may be at everyone's house in the near future.”
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Gesture Appliances Control with Pose Detection - BrainChip AKD1000 | Expert Projects
Control your TV, Air Conditioner or Lightbulb by just pointing your finger at them, using the BrainChip AKD1000 achieving great accuracy and low power consumption.docs.edgeimpulse.com
But just like in the TV adds of old ‘but wait there is more’ look who the author is and where he works in real life:
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Christopher Mendez
PRO Content Creator at ArduinoPontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra ArduinoSantiago, Dominican Republic 225 connections
Was not someone suggesting that Arduino would bring end of days reigning down on Brainchip well not according to this Arduino member he adds weight to the Edge impulse CFO’s opinion AKIDA will be everywhere.
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Conclusion
This project leverages the Brainchip Akida Neuromorphic Hardware Accelerator to propose an innovative solution to home automation. It can be optimized to work as a daily used gadget that may be at everyone's house in the near future.”Comments such as this from Chris Mendez make me wonder why Sean Hehir said AKD1000's focus was too narrow. Everyone's house is not narrow. Please, Sean...choose your words carefully.