Digital Health is becoming a more adopted form of treatment in the healthcare industry because it reduces barriers to patients receiving effective care from providers. With Ambiq enabling energy-efficient edge AI, the adoption of digital health devices will continue to grow as patients and providers can count on longer-lasting batteries, enhanced privacy and security, and increased robustness thanks to local computing that doesn’t rely on a strong connection to the Cloud.

Ambiq is a semiconductor and solutions company that enables low-power edge AI using its core technology, the Subthreshold Power Optimization Technology platform or SPOT. In traditional circuit design, voltage levels are represented as 1 and 0 with any voltages above 1 as on, and anything below 1 as off. The reason why it turns off is because it is hard to control variables such as temperature, voltage fluctuations, or hardware variations outside a laboratory. However, Ambiq’s SPOT technology has solved these problems at scale, enabling edge AI devices to operate at voltage levels as low as 0.3 volts – a quadratic savings in battery consumption.

Utilizing SPOT, digital health devices can extract meaningful insights about a patient's health because these digital health devices will always be running wherever they are. Users don’t need to constantly be plugged into an outlet because the digital health device is performing computing on the local device. Patients are not sending large amounts of raw data to the cloud, which keeps power-hungry radios powered on longer.

Patients can expect ease of use because of the robustness of the SPOT platform. Because these digital health devices are computed locally, the quality of speed or connection to the cloud is not a factor in receiving real-time, instant data when the patient needs it. They can also expect their digital health device to provide more finetuned and personalized data.

Finally, patients can feel confident in their decision to use digital health at the edge to monitor their vitals, as it comes with enhanced privacy and security. Private and raw data will be kept out of the Cloud, ensuring no one but the patient and those they choose to share with knows this sensitive information. Keeping the data on the device will also keep it from cyber thieves who breach the Cloud and use the patient's personal information for their own gain.

SPOT and Digital health go together, and as the world looks to integrate AI into our daily lives, Edge AI enabled by Ambiq will become the new standard in creating meaningful applications of how patients diagnose and receive care.

About Ambiq    

Ambiq’s mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere and drive a more energy-efficient, sustainable, and data-driven world. Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide create products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days) while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq’s goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices, using Ambiq’s advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 250 million units.    

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This article is writen by:
Sam Draper of Wearable Technolgies on October 1, 2024
https://wearable-technologies.com/news/october-2024-ambiq-empowers-digital-health-with-edge-ai

For more information, visit Ambiq at Medica on November 11-14, 2024, in Dusseldorf, Germany (Book Meeting with Ambiq at Medica). They will be located at booth number 13C59 in Hall 13, where visitors can get more hands-on experience with AI models in digital health running on their ultra-low-powered microcontrollers and Systems-on-Chips.