Advanced edge AI solution featured at Embedded World and at upcoming webinar
Join us on April 8 for the next installment of our AI At the Edge Webinar Series: Exploring Edge AI Cases leveraging the Infineon PSOC™ 6 AI Kit. Register today!
At Embedded World 2025, Avnet and Infineon demonstrated an advanced edge AI-powered IoT solution featuring the seamless integration of Infineon’s DEEPCRAFT™ Ready Models with Avnet’s /IOTCONNECT. “This collaboration serves the growing need for intelligent, production-ready AI applications on Infineon devices, targeting key industries such as smart home, healthcare, industrial automation and automotive,” said Sam Al-Attiyah, Product Manager for DEEPCRAFT Ready Models at Infineon.
A game-changing solution for AI-driven IoT
Avnet’s /IOTCONNECT enhances the deployment and visualization of AI use cases through dashboards aggregating key analytics, stimulus testing and comprehensive device management. At Embedded World, the team showcased models for baby cry detection, fall detection and siren recognition, emphasizing the potential of AI to enhance safety and automation across multiple industries.
AI Kit is part of AWS’s Qualified Device Program
The AI Kit featured in the solution is part of AWS’s Qualified Device Program, offering developers seamless cloud integration, scalability, and enhanced security. By leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure, developers can accelerate deployment, reduce development overhead, and take advantage of cloud-based AI model refinement.
“AWS’s purpose-built IoT and AI/ML services empower developers to transform ordinary devices into intelligent edge solutions. Cloud integration enables developers to harness continuously evolving ML models and run inferences at the edge, bringing real-time intelligence directly to their devices,” said Dave Kranzler, GM of IoT Services at AWS. “By harvesting IoT data from edge devices and processing it in the cloud, organizations can discover deeper insights that drive operational efficiencies.”
Applications, features and benefits
This innovative solution is designed for various high-impact applications, including:
- Smart home & healthcare – Enhancing home automation and patient monitoring with intelligent audio and motion recognition.
- Wearables & robotics – Driving efficiency and responsiveness in wearable health monitors and robotic systems.
- Industrial automation & safety – Enabling real-time anomaly detection and safety compliance monitoring in industrial environments.
- Automotive & transportation – Improving in-vehicle safety features with advanced AI-driven alert systems.
Optimized Edge AI Kit for mobile, battery-powered applications
- Benefit: Designed for mobile AI applications, this energy-efficient solution integrates sensors and robust connectivity, making it ideal for prototyping portable AI-driven products.
DEEPCRAFT™ Ready Models for production AI
- Benefit: Pre-trained, production-ready machine learning models reduce the cost and complexity of data collection and training, accelerating AI deployment.
OTA updates and device management
- Benefit: Supports over-the-air (OTA) updates for AI models, configurations, and monitoring, enabling seamless upgrades and centralized device management.
Integration with ModusToolbox™
- Benefit: /IOTCONNECT’s pre-integration into ModusToolbox™ streamlines the development and deployment of AI and IoT applications, empowering developers to bring solutions to market faster.
Enabling AI with DEEPCRAFT™ Models and Cloud connectivity
“Cloud connectivity further enhances usage of DEEPCRAFT™ Ready Models by enabling continuous learning, remote updates, and real-time insights. Developers can optimize model performance, aggregating data from devices to retrain models over time as well as remotely tune models and inference criteria to meet the needs of specific use cases and environments in addition to the benefits of centralized device management and monitoring,” said Jennifer Skinner-Gray, Senior Director, Supplier Technology Enablement at Avnet.
Extending innovation to PSOC™ Edge
The capabilities demonstrated in this showcase extend naturally to Infineon’s PSOC™ Edge, further pushing the boundaries of AI at the edge. With powerful edge AI processing and cloud connectivity, PSOC™ Edge provides an efficient platform for AI-driven applications in vision, audio, and predictive maintenance. Avnet /IOTCONNECT intends to provide future support and demos for Infineon’s PSOC™ Edge E84.
DEEPCRAFT™ Starter Models and future /IOTCONNECT support
Infineon continues to expand its DEEPCRAFT™ Starter Models, free, open-source models that come with the datasets, preprocessing and model architecture to make AI adoption easier for developers. Avnet plans to provide ongoing support to ensure seamless integration of these models into various IoT ecosystems, helping businesses accelerate AI deployment.
Transforming AI and IoT deployment
Avnet and Infineon’s partnership sets a new benchmark for AI-driven IoT solutions. By combining production-ready AI models with robust IoT connectivity, this solution showcases how businesses can harness cutting-edge technology to drive innovation and efficiency across industries.
