Useful Sensors develops AI interfaces for everyday objects. We’ve created low-cost, easy to integrate hardware modules that bring ML capabilities like gesture recognition, presence detection, and voice interfaces to TVs, laptops, and appliances while preserving users’ privacy. You can add intelligent features to your existing consumer electronics products in just a few days. We’ve helped build laptops that automatically lock themselves when someone leaves, televisions that respond to hand gestures, and fans that always point in your direction.
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From ‘Smart’ to ‘Useful’ Sensors
Can anyone make ‘smart home’ devices useful to consumers? A Calif. startup, Useful Sensors, believes it has the magic potion. What’s at stake? Talk of edge AI, particularly machine learning, has captivated the IoT market. Yet, actual consumer products with local machine learning capabilities, are rare. Who’s ready to pull that off? Will it be …

“Accelerating the Era of AI Everywhere,” An Embedded Vision Summit Expert Panel Discussion
Jeff Bier, Founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, moderates the “Accelerating the Era of AI Everywhere,” Expert Panel at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Other panelists include Dean Kamen, Founder of DEKA Research and Development, Lokwon Kim, CEO of DEEPX, Jason Lavene, Director of Advanced Development Engineering… “Accelerating the Era of AI …

Useful Sensors Selects OKdo as its Global Single Board Computer Solutions Partner
Useful Sensors and OKdo make machine learning easy, secure and accessible to global customers, resellers and distributor partners. Partnership brings small, low-cost machine learning hardware modules to the mass market, providing capabilities such as presence detection, hand gesture recognition, and voice interface. London, UK, 14 March 2023 – Useful Sensors today announced a global manufacturing …
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