Mouser Electronics, the industry-leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, and Edge Impulse, a leading provider of cutting-edge development platforms, are joining forces to advance the development of edge-based machine learning solutions and the growth of open-source projects.

Mouser announced today a new global partnership with Edge Impulse.

This collaboration is expected to enable developers to more closely leverage hardware and artificial intelligence/machine learning by combining Edge Impulse’s platform and tools with a wide range of compatible hardware products from Mouser.

In addition, it is expected that this will contribute to the growth of edge-based machine learning solutions as well as open source projects and application cases.

Mouser customers can easily access Edge Impulse’s software platform online via the associated product microsite, where they can also find information on how to implement designs using machine learning.

Likewise, Edge Impulse users will have convenient access to compatible hardware, including microcontrollers and development kits, directly from Mouser.

“Mouser Electronics’ senior vice president of marketing, Kevin Hess, said:“Our partnership with Edge Impulse is an exciting proposition for both companies, as well as the broader engineering community,” he said. “Edge Impulse’s innovative platform, which is advancing edge machine learning dramatically, is being used by a wide range of users, from individuals to enterprises. We will work with Edge Impulse to provide users with easy access to the hardware they need at the scale they need.”

“We are excited to collaborate with Mouser Electronics, which furthers our goal of empowering enterprises and developers around the world with cutting-edge AI tools,” said Zach Shelby, Edge Impulse co-founder and CEO. “With its global presence and industry-leading electronic component distribution, Mouser is the perfect partner to accelerate edge AI development across all industries.”

As edge machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions explode across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer electronics, choosing effective development platforms and the right products is also becoming a critical challenge for engineers.

Edge Impulse, recognized as an industry leader in machine learning, helps developers develop and optimize solutions using real-world data.

The platform simplifies deployment and scaling, and enables rapid implementation. Edge Impulse’s solutions are hardware agnostic, enabling engineers and students to develop sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions using a variety of hardware options that expand the scope of applications.

This global collaboration focuses on removing barriers to edge AI and machine learning development and streamlining development by simplifying access to hardware products.

This partnership builds on the successful collaboration between the two companies through BrickML, a standalone tool designed by Edge Impulse and manufactured by Reloc.

Available exclusively through Mouser, this System-on-Module (SoM) empowers engineers to develop and deploy edge machine learning.

In addition to BrickML, Mouser also used Edge Impulse in an interesting biometric detection demo presented at a recent trade show in EMEA.

More information about Edge Impulse can be found at https://www.mouser.kr/new/edge-impulse/edge-impulse-solutions/.

Real-world implementation examples using Mouser products can be found at https://resources.mouser.com/edge-impulse/.