Apical_logoApical today announces ART, a radical new concept for the smart home which uses the latest breakthroughs in machine vision intelligence to put people at the heart of their connected environment. With ART, people in the home continuously invoke an avatar, a digitized representation, capturing their four key attributes of movement, pose, gesture and identity.

ART provides this coherent representation to the ecosystem of devices in the smart home, enabling them to respond naturally to people, interpret and anticipate their intent, provide authentication and parental control, and learn their behaviours and needs. In the process ART becomes the faithful, digital friend enhancing our daily living experience by putting us the users fully in control.

ART achieves this via Apical’s breakthrough machine intelligence technology called Spirit, which is embedded into one or more networked sensors in the home. Spirit is a chip-level technology, which converts raw image sensor data into a stream of virtualized object data, translating the scene into machine-readable form. It does this at-the-edge and in real time. It brings the kind of intelligence previously available only on supercomputers into a tiny form factor, which can be deployed in any internet-of-things device. It does this without forming any imagery or video, providing an absolute protection against any entity looking into the home.

Says Michael Tusch, CEO Apical: “ART is a unifying platform on which the industry can finally build compelling new home experiences for all of us. I believe it provides the best means yet to answer the question few dare ask: what is the point of the smart home?”

www.apical.co.uk/spirit/art/