Numerus has launched a turnkey low-level AI middleware solution for manufacturing and industrial applications. NEPI is an open-source software distribution designed for robotic, smart sensing and Edge-AI applications.

NEPI integrates disparate industry 4.0 technologies like advanced sensor and motor drivers, Edge-AI, remote user interfaces, IOT, Robot Operating System interfaces and other smart system technologies into one commercial software offering designed for embedded GPU processors like NVIDIA’s Jetson processor family.

Numurus is also offering professional design services for deployment, customisation and prototyping of NEPI-based solutions with engineers specialised in AI, robotics, and smart sensing.

“By choosing NEPI, smart solution developers can leverage our 5-year development investment and speed up the delivery of their own innovations. Never before has there been an open-source, commercial software offering created exclusively for robotic, smart sensing and Edge-AI applications. We look forward to speaking with customers about their smart product development challenges and the powerful capabilities NEPI provides in helping them achieve industry 4.0 transformation,” said Numurus chief product officer Shanif Merchant.

Launch customer WESMAR, an Inov8v Marine Group Company, chose NEPI and Numurus professional services team to accelerate their sonar product line modernisation efforts and to reduce their need to hire additional engineers. Within 5 months of starting their NEPI-enabled sonar project, WESMAR successfully demonstrated its next-generation smart sonar product to customers and produced ready-to-ship production systems.

“Wesmar was able to demonstrate and deliver smart sonar sensors to our customers within 5 months with NEPI software and Numurus professional services. They have gone above and beyond our expectations, and we are very pleased to have their support as we look to apply NEPI across our entire product line,” said Roger Fellows, president of Inov8v Marine Group.