Borqs Technologies to develop AI-enabled smart watch

Borqs Technologies announced its plans to develop an AI-enabled smart watch as part of its expansion strategy into artificial intelligence for the U.S. market. The AI-enabled smart watch is positioned as an Edge AI device. Borqs AI-enabled smart watch will be based on Android and is wirelessly connected via Wifi/BT and cellular networks. It will make use of the AI capability on the watch chipset platform to perform the training and inference of machine learning for the sensors on the watch. “Research organization IDC predicted that there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices generating 79.4 zettabytes of data in 2025. As volumes grow, new innovative ways for efficient analysis and data processing are needed. The state-of-the-art smart watch chipset has sufficient computational power to enable machine learning and AI on the edge. With Edge AI, the device can function without always a connection to the network. AI computation can happen on the device and does not have to send to the cloud for processing. This will reduce bandwidth utilization and time delay for inference, as well as improved privacy. The model will also allow federated learning,” said Pat Chan, CEO of Borqs.