arXiv:2606. 26121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global insect population declines necessitate scalable, continuous monitoring systems, yet existing vision-based solutions remain constrained by high hardware costs, energy demands, and reliance on centralized processing or cloud connectivity.
arXiv:2506. 03168v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Amid the challenges posed by global population growth and climate change, traditional agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) systems is currently undergoing a significant digital transformation to facilitate efficient big data processing.
arXiv:2606. 00108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, yet the tools available to monitor and protect ecosystems remain limited by constraints in power, connectivity, and accessibility.
arXiv:2608.29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Insect pollination is critical for global food production, yet monitoring pollinators at commercial farm scale remains a challenge. Recent advances i...
arXiv:2608.21764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Event-based vision has emerged as a promising paradigm for energy-aware artificial intelligence (AI), offering sparse, low-latency visual signals tha...
The article outlines a vision and recent progress toward a decentralized system that learns from real‑time building data, treating the building itself as a data center to enhance privacy and reduce dependence on external clouds. It introduces a lightweight, Kubernetes‑like orchestration framework for deploying AI services on low‑power microcontrollers, such as those in the Arduino ecosystem, enabling in‑situ learning on sensors. The work also presents experimental results for new online learning algorithms and proposes a cloud‑fog‑edge architecture using KOptim and FIWARE components.
The paper explores how the number of bird species (target classes) affects the compressibility of neural networks for passive acoustic monitoring on microcontroller units (MCUs). By training and compressing models with varying class counts, the authors show that significant compression can be achieved with minimal performance loss. They also benchmark different hardware platforms and assess the feasibility of deploying energy‑autonomous monitoring devices.
arXiv:2609.22897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable recognition beyond a fixed class set, but their computational demands prevent them from running on many ed...
arXiv:2607. 04219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of AI into Internet of Things (AIoT) systems has gradually transformed them from passive data collection infrastructures into intelligent systems capable of anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, classification, forecasting, and optimization.
The paper introduces a dynamic framework for partitioning neural network layers across a heterogeneous edge‑cloud continuum, adapting to runtime changes in network conditions and device capabilities. It profiles models at startup, measures link quality, and periodically re‑evaluates the partitioning to optimize performance. Experiments on a Raspberry Pi, laptop, and desktop using VGG16, AlexNet, and MobileNetV2 demonstrate energy savings of 27.09–35.82% and latency reductions of 6.34–22.92% over static partitioning.
The paper presents a novel multi‑exit computational scheme for TinyML on an ultra‑low‑power GAP9 SoC, adding confidence‑based gating points to a MobileNetV2 CNN for ImageNet‑100. By allowing inference to stop early, the approach cuts average MAC operations by 41 % (from 313 MMAC to 185 MMAC), reduces inference time by 29 % (49 ms to 35 ms), and saves 24 % in energy (2.1 mJ to 1.6 mJ per frame) with only a ~1 % drop in accuracy. Compared to a state‑of‑the‑art adaptive CNN on the same hardware, the method more than doubles computational efficiency, raising MAC/cycle from 8.1 to 17.2.
The paper introduces EMMI, a framework that enables communication‑efficient inference of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on edge devices. EMMI encodes each sensor modality separately, fuses the representations, and compresses them into a compact latent vector that is transmitted to a server for high‑capacity reasoning. Experiments on a multimodal benchmark show that EMMI can cut the communication payload by 32× while keeping accuracy comparable, achieving up to a 3.4× reduction in end‑to‑end inference latency under bandwidth‑constrained conditions.
This paper introduces an Edge AI system that classifies sleep and wake states on constrained devices using a multimodal pipeline on an ESP32‑S3 microcontroller. It fuses inertial head‑movement sensing with visual pose classification, running in parallel under FreeRTOS to meet real‑time constraints. The two‑stage detection achieves 96.5 % accuracy for motion‑based detection and 89 % for pose classification, proving robust binary sleep‑wake classification in mobile scenarios.