§ Agriculture
Precision farming, autonomous.
AI-powered crop monitoring and autonomous farm equipment running independently in the field.
§ Why edge AI
The case for running it on the asset.
Connectivity in a 200-hectare field is unreliable, expensive, and slow. AI has to run on the tractor, the drone, or the soil sensor — not in someone's data center. The E1M-AEN handles always-on environmental sensing at sub-1 mW; the V2N adds AI vision for autonomous spraying, weed detection, and yield estimation; all in industrial-temperature packages that survive a Swedish winter.
§ The constraint
Field-deployed sensors can't phone home every minute on solar power. Tractors run faster than the cellular tower can stream. Crop-detection latency is measured in centimetres of travel.
Cloud round trip
sensor → uplink → inference → downlink → action
On-module
sensor → on-module inference → action
Sensor
Crop camera feed
On-module inference
E1M-AEN
Action
Per-plant treatment decision
§ Recommended modules
Pick the AI compute that fits.
E1M-AEN
Always-on AI at sub-1 mW. Cortex-M55 + Ethos-U55 scaling from 250 GOPS (E3/E5/E7) up to 500 GOPS (E4/E6/E8) for wake-word, vibration anomaly, and ultra-low-power sensing.
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E1M-X V2N
Quad-core A55 with 4 TOPS DRP-AI3 in a 45×65 mm form factor.
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E1M-X V2N+M1
RZ/V2N paired with DeepX DX-M1 for 29 TOPS combined AI in 45×65 mm.
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§ Reference examples from the Alp SDK
Code you can fork and ship.
Every example is real C/C++ in the open-source alp-sdk repo. Clone, change the SKU in board.yaml, build.
ai-object-detection-realtime
Crop / weed detection
YOLOv8-tiny on the NPU — distinguish crop rows from weeds at tractor speed.
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ai-anomaly-detection-vibration
Equipment health monitoring
Detect bearing failures on autonomous tractors before they strand you in the field.
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iot-connected-camera
Field-deployed smart camera
Capture → infer → MQTT to base station. Lives on a battery for months.
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§ Built for this vertical
Why E1M wins here.
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AEN runs always-on at <1 mW — months on solar + battery
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IP67-ready when paired with a sealed carrier board
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−40 °C to +85 °C — survives sub-zero winters and Mediterranean summers
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LoRa + LTE-M ready via the carrier board