On-the-Edge Inference Enabled Vision System for Smart Cities

This work introduces a next-generation smart city platform using a novel embedded vision system. i.e., HAura. The HAura system integrates a dual camera and other sensors with a powerful embedded computing unit. The powerful perception stack, based on robust deep learning and computer vision techniques, provides a perfect baseline for implementing a variety of security, traffic management and urban planning policies. Choosing to process images directly on the device and transmit only metadata ensures compliance with privacy and security, as well as bandwidth efficiency. The next evolution of the vision stack will finally improve capabilities by introducing a new multi-task perception model.