AITAD

AITAD acts as your automation partner specializing in embedded and edge AI. This German company works with industrial partners on consumer devices and specific industrial machines. Its strength is its holistic, full-service approach with strong technological specialization and a benefit-based, visionary focus from a single source.

AITAD thinks differently: technologies such as keyword spotting (KWS), object recognition like vision, ToF, and radar/lidar, process/function optimization (for example, VOC, simulation, spectrography) or anomaly detection (for example, for preventive/predictive maintenance) should not be just functional improvements of a machine, a product, or a device.

AITAD bundles the above-mentioned technologies in an individual concept to great effect. This means that AITAD offers its customers the opportunity to make a major change in their structure: It can change their entire business model with data-based approaches such as leasing, full-service, or pay-per-use models along with all the additional embedded topics usually required, such as M2M, additional sensor functions, and user interaction (HMI). This industry-independent market shift is inevitable and helps customers stay competitive in the short and medium term.

AITAD works closely with the customer on a path that it has trodden before: After a rough outline of the customer’s holistic view, AITAD develops the software and hardware with prototyping phases to demonstrate and test the technological solution proposals (PoCs). In further steps, the machine-learning components are trained and tested more extensively and are individualized until they are ready for serial production. AITAD uses standardized processes, provides customers with its own GUIs for certain acquisitions and thus ensures a fast and smooth project flow. Until certification, delivery, and live-time management, AITAD accompanies its customers on their innovative path.

To achieve this purpose, AITAD has established its own small-batch EMS manufacturing facility in-house, allowing for the swift delivery of component prototypes or serial production, complete with all necessary test equipment, including simulation servers, EMC testers, and climate chambers.

Depending on individual circumstances, AITAD uses STM8, STM32 Cortex®-M, and MPUs/HMP series MCUs and ST sensors such as those for ToF, digital MEMS microphones or sensors for temperature, spectrographic and inertial quantities (also iNEMO-IMU with ML core).