Hi HN,Our startup just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine learning...
Hey Hacker News,Our company has just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel...
Hey HN!Our company has just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine...
You're right, I forgot to mention it. But it's there! As someone with a background in motion recognition I thought it'd be a great addition, even if the use cases aren't clear yet. Ends up being less than a dollar extra to the BOM.
Regarding contact info - we're just holding onto it in a spreadsheet until our next production run is ready, then we'll e-mail to confirm interest, and then ship out the units to the address.
Pretty much anyone is qualified as long as they are either with some existing organization and have a project idea, or they're a developer/academic and can describe their project briefly. Basically we just don't want to give them out to anyone who doesn't show any intent to use it.
Hey guys,Our company has just released a sensor + computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps).It's meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine learning applications (and one day: control those machines!).The goal with this device is to...
I'm sorry you feel that way about our product. To us it falls in the category of productivity and management tools in general. As a crude example, you ever have a boss that proxies engagement by time logged on slack, github commits, etc? Those seem like crappy examples, and at previous firms I saw it encourage the wrong behavior. We figure at least in the physical work world there ought to be much better ways to track output.
The main use case is definitely more machine oriented. We've had some good trials for simple human labor and human-machine collaboration. One user said they wanted to try and use our system to interview job applicants. So there's definitely a positive side for people too, which is rewarding high performers and helping find the right people for the job.
With Empirical Vision you can track machine output, increase employee accountability, maintain quality standards, and reward star performers, while identifying opportunities for process improvement.
Our software turns any USB webcam into your personal monitoring and output recording device. Get daily reports of production output and real-time alerts whenever a machine goes down, or employee productivity wanes.
For a limited time we will TEST THE SOFTWARE FOR YOU, by analyzing a short video clip of your production process and training our AI to recognize and track the task or process! If you reach out to me directly here via Hacker News, we'd be happy to do a few tests for free over the next couple of days. We are very proud to show and prove our software's power, and have had fantastic results with our first customers already.
Scroll down on the main product page to see a demo of how the software works, as well as videos from early customers and pilot trials:
http://www.empiricalautomation.com/vision.html
Looking forward to your comments and feedback!