Category: internetofthings
ESL is participating in three SwissChips projects!
As the SwissChips initiative bursts into activity we can confirm our participation in three of the seven projects that involve EPFL researchers. Design Infrastructure Chips for Edge AI Computing Systems-on-Chip Find out more here:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/research/swisschips/
Android event was a great success!
“Android meets Internet of Things” took place at ESL on the 22nd February, 2025. The room was packed, and a lot of fantastic projects were presented! Prizes were awarded to the following projects: First place: “SeizureGuard” by Francesco Poluzzi and François Dumoncel This app performs real-time seizure detection from EEG signals using an AI model developed (…)
Android meets Internet of Things
Please join us at the Embedded Systems Lab of Prof. David Atienza for an exploration of Android applications and IoT. The following projects are going to be presented: 17:00 – Acroyoga Ismael Frei and Barbara De Groot17:15 – SeizureGuard Francesco Poluzzi and François Dumoncel17:30 – Fitness Drone Julian Donevsky, Océane Mauroux, and Robin Carlet17:45 – (…)
X-AGORA III was a great success!
The X-HEEP event X-AGORA III was a great success! We were around 35 people in the room and 25 online, from 9 universities and companies. Feel free to watch the entire proceedings below.

Giovanni Ansaloni: how do you squeeze AI into power-constrained edge devices?
Dr. Giovanni Ansaloni presented a course on methodologies for algorithm optimization at HiPEAC’s ACACES24. Edge intelligence has fostered a revolution in the way information is created, analyzed and accessed, fundamentally impacting multiple fields ranging from health monitoring to augmented reality. Key to this success is the optimization of application energy/run-time/application footprints, especially in light of (…)
EPFL Joins Sony’s Sensing Solution University Collaboration Program
Article by Jéssica Paiva Santos of Sony Sony’s Sensing Solution University Collaboration Program is excited to announce its partnership with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). This collaboration is all about fueling student-driven innovation in IoT and sensing technology, and it brings together Sony’s Spresense platform and EPFL’s tech-savvy (…)
BiomedBench to be published in TinyML special edition
We are delighted to announce that our latest paper on BiomedBench has been accepted for a special edition on TinyML in : IEEE Design & Test The paper is available in pre-print here: BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables Samakovlis, Dimitrios; Albini, Stefano; Rodríguez Álvarez, Rubén; Constantinescu, Denisa-Andreea; Schiavone, Pasquale (…)
Landmark award for EcoCloud’s directors, old and new
Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and Program Leader of the Nano-Tera.ch (…)
Exploring open hardware/software at the cutting Edge with HiPEAC
ACACES is an annual summer school organised by the HiPEAC project (High Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation). Giovanni Ansaloni has given a four day series of lectures at the 2024 iteration of this prestigious event Maintaining rapid growth in computing performance is key for tackling the societal challenges shaping Europe and assuring our global competitiveness (…)
OpenScience video features CoughVid Dataset
The EPFL OpenScience Movement has featured the dataset of our CoughVid project as an example of how to keep data open to use by all scientists around the world: Read more about CoughVid and the CoughVid Dataset