Industry

Edge AI in Smart Cities & Public Sector

Traffic flow, public transport, environmental sensing and infrastructure monitoring at municipal scale.

Common workloads

  • Traffic analytics
  • Transit monitoring
  • Environmental sensing

Companies active in Smart Cities & Public Sector

Intel

Chip manufacturer

Supplies Core Ultra client processors that combine CPU, Arc graphics and an integrated NPU, and maintains the open-source OpenVINO toolkit for optimising inference on Intel CPUs, GPUs and NPUs.

Santa Clara, California, United States

Qualcomm

Chip manufacturer

Designs the Snapdragon X platform for Windows PCs and edge clients, pairing Oryon CPU cores, Adreno graphics and the Hexagon NPU. Qualcomm also owns the Edge Impulse edge MLOps platform.

San Diego, California, United States

Rockchip

Chip manufacturer

Fabless SoC designer whose RK35xx application processors combine Arm CPU clusters, Mali graphics and an integrated NPU, widely used in single-board computers, panel devices and edge video products.

Fuzhou, China

Hailo

Edge AI startup

Fabless company developing discrete edge AI processors, M.2 and PCIe accelerator modules and the Hailo AI Software Suite, spanning classic vision workloads and, with Hailo-10H, generative models.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Sony Semiconductor Solutions

Chip manufacturer

Produces the IMX500 intelligent vision sensor, a stacked CMOS image sensor with an integrated AI processing block and on-chip memory, supported by the AITRIOS edge AI sensing platform.

Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

Aetina

Hardware manufacturer

Designs fanless edge AI systems and carrier boards around NVIDIA Jetson modules, including wide-input, wide-temperature platforms for machine vision and mobile robotics integrators.

New Taipei City, Taiwan

Supermicro

Cloud & infrastructure provider

Builds IoT SuperServer and edge box systems with Xeon Scalable processors and full-height PCIe expansion for accelerators, aimed at telecom, industrial and retail edge sites.

San Jose, California, United States

Axis Communications

Computer vision company

Network video manufacturer producing cameras that run deep-learning analytics on the device through AXIS Object Analytics and the open AXIS Camera Application Platform.

Lund, Sweden

Hanwha Vision

Computer vision company

Video surveillance manufacturer whose cameras include an on-board NPU for object detection, classification and licence plate recognition, with AI-assisted noise and bandwidth reduction.

Seongnam, South Korea