AI vision for the edge

Enabling AI Vision for the Physical World

Use only the essential information needed for Physical AI to see what’s there.

Goal: Pretty pictures.

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Goal: Intelligent data

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Edge vision intelligence

Performance benefits of OCULI versus competitive alternatives

Most machine-vision alternatives use CMOS image sensors (CIS) — the same sensors in your phone's camera, designed to take pretty pictures, not to do AI vision. The OCLUI SPU works differently: it runs AI directly on the chip and transmits only the information needed to understand the scene.

Edge AI alternatives
30×
increase in energy*latency for Edge AI
1,000×
increase in speed for Edge AI
100×
reduction in power consumption for Edge AI
300×
increase in energy*latency for Cloud AI

Using a Camera plus a Computer for machine vision is too expensive, too power hungry, too slow, and lacks privacy.

Today’s CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) found in cell phones and other camera products were not designed for AI Vision. They are designed for capturing high resolution pictures. This isn’t the way our human eyes work. Oculi captures just enough of the right information to SEE what’s there.

OCULI SPU

Only the signal. Nothing else.

Camera + computer (today)

Sensing and processing at the pixel level.

Why it works

Four advantages. One chip.

OCULI Sensing and Processing Unit (SPU) integrates AI Vision at the pixel level, a fundamentally different architecture that changes the power-performance equation for Edge AI.

Ultra-low power

On-chip processing eliminates the data pipeline that drains battery. Purpose-built for always-on, battery-powered deployments at the Edge.

Real-time response

Decisions happen at the point of capture, no Cloud round-trip. Critical latency for autonomous systems and live detection under 5ms.

Privacy by design

Personally identifiable information is filtered before any data leaves the device. Zero cloud dependency, all processing happens on-chip.

Fully Programmable

Software Defined Vision Sensors™ let the same chip power radically different applications, from wearables to defense to smart cities.

A massive market poised for explosive growth providing AI Vision.

$70B

Total available market for smart edge presence detection

2x+

Expected market growth over the next five years

25+

Proof-of-concept deployments completed with customers

$22B

Serviceable market addressable today

Presence detection at the Edge™ is one of the fastest-growing segments in semiconductor hardware. Every connected device that needs to sense its environment without draining a battery or exposing user data is a potential Oculi customer.

OCULI offers its solution to customers as an OCULI SPU, or as a complete Lens Module. Our Product Development Kit has all the tools necessary to develop your own designs and use the Software Defined Vision Sensor(TM) capability of our solution. Go to our Evaluation Platform page to get started!

OCULI holds exclusive worldwide rights to core technology developed with over $40M in research investment at Johns Hopkins University, plus a growing portfolio of in-house patents.

How It's Used

One platform, many applications

The OCULI Sensing and Processing Unit (SPU) is fully programmable. The same hardware powers a wide range of deployments across industries.

In-building environmental control and security

Privacy, first urban monitoring, traffic intelligence, and infrastructure analytics, always, on with zero cloud dependency.

Real, time visual intelligence for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation at the edge.

Ultra, low power AI vision for consumer electronics, wearables, AR/VR, and IoT edge devices.

Ultra, low SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power) vision sensors for unmanned and autonomous defense platforms. Ouli’s IntelliPixel® technology delivers real-time visual intelligence with complete edge autonomy, no network required. Demonstrated to outperform expensive military imaging systems at 30,000 FPS with less than 0.3W power consumption.

Management Team

Built by the people who invented it

OCULI’s leadership combines the original research behind the technology with proven commercial exits and decades of image sensor industry experience.

Charbel Rizk, PhD

Founder & Chief Scientist
One of the world's leading experts on AI vision. While a professor and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, oversaw $40M+ invested to develop the core technology. Oculi holds exclusive worldwide rights.

Core Inventor

Patrick Henry

Chief Executive Officer
Serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, including an IPO on NASDAQ that reached a $1.2 billion valuation. Deep experience taking deep-tech companies from early stage to market scale.

$1.2B NASDAQ exit

Fred Brady

Head of Product Development
30+ years of image sensor experience at the companies that defined the industry — Kodak, Pixim, and Sony. Brings rare depth of knowledge in both the physics and the commercial realities of sensor hardware.

Kodak · Pixim · Sony