Elliptic Labs and Ceva have partnered to integrate the AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform with Ceva’s NeuPro-Nano NPU, enabling advanced, context-aware sensing for ultra-low power edge devices. Announced on June 10, 2025, this collaboration enhances AI-driven interactions across AIoT applications, delivering seamless user experiences in smart devices.
Elliptic Labs collaborates with Ceva to enhance edge AI sensing.
AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform runs on NeuPro-Nano NPU.
Enables context-aware features in low-power edge devices.
Supports noise-cancelling earbuds, touchless displays, and more.
Production-ready with Ceva’s NeuPro Studio AI SDK.
Optimizes real-time sensor fusion and gesture detection.
Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform, deployed in over half a billion devices, now leverages Ceva’s NeuPro-Nano NPU to deliver precise, optimized AI models for edge computing. This integration enables context-aware sensing in devices like noise-cancelling earbuds, touchless smart displays, and predictive industrial sensors. “This collaboration is a major step forward in expanding the reach of our AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform,” said Laila Danielsen, CEO of Elliptic Labs. The partnership ensures efficient performance with minimal resource consumption, aligning with the growing demand for intelligent AIoT applications.
Ceva’s NeuPro Studio AI SDK complements Elliptic Labs’ platform, offering a production-ready environment for rapid development and deployment. “Elliptic Labs software-first approach to AI aligns perfectly with our NeuPro-Nano NPU’s strength in ultra-low power, high-performance processing,” said Chad Lucien, Vice President and General Manager of the Sensors and Audio Business Unit of Ceva. This synergy enables Ceva’s customers, from semiconductor firms to consumer electronics brands, to integrate intelligent sensing features quickly, enhancing device responsiveness and scalability across AIoT markets.
The combined solution supports real-time sensor fusion, gesture detection, and presence sensing, powering innovative devices such as presence-aware thermostats and predictive industrial sensors. By optimizing model deployment and quantization, the platform ensures low latency and power efficiency, critical for battery-operated edge devices. This collaboration positions both companies to meet the rising demand for smarter, more interactive AIoT products in consumer, industrial, and smart home sectors.
The partnership underscores a commitment to advancing edge AI innovation. By combining Elliptic Labs’ full-stack AI capabilities with Ceva’s high-performance NPU, the collaboration unlocks new possibilities for context-aware, scalable AI solutions. The platform’s versatility supports a wide range of applications, ensuring device makers can deliver enhanced user experiences without compromising energy efficiency.
This collaboration between Elliptic Labs and Ceva sets a new standard for edge AI, enabling smarter, more efficient devices that transform user interactions across the AIoT landscape.
Elliptic Labs' AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform™ brings contextual intelligence to devices, enhancing user experiences. Our technology uses proprietary deep neural networks to create AI-powered Virtual Smart Sensors that improve personalization, privacy, and productivity.
Currently deployed in over 500 million devices, our platform works across all devices, operating systems, platforms, and applications. By utilizing system-level telemetry data to cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs), the AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform delivers the unrivaled capability to utilize output data from every available data source. This approach allows devices to better understand and respond to their environment, making technology more intuitive and user-friendly. At Elliptic Labs, we're not just adapting to the future of technology – we're actively shaping it. Our goal is to continue pushing the boundaries of contextual intelligence, creating more intuitive and powerful experiences for users worldwide.
Elliptic Labs is headquartered in Norway with presence in the USA, China, South-Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Its technology and IP are developed in Norway and are solely owned by the company.
At Ceva, we are passionate about bringing new levels of innovation to the smart edge. Our wireless communications, sensing and Edge AI technologies are at the heart of some of today's most advanced smart edge products. From Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and 5G platform IP for ubiquitous, robust communications, to scalable Edge AI NPU IPs, sensor fusion processors and embedded application software that make devices smarter, we have the broadest portfolio of IP to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently. We deliver differentiated solutions that combine outstanding performance at ultra-low power within a very small silicon footprint. Our goal is simple – to deliver the silicon and software IP to enable a smarter, safer, and more interconnected world. This philosophy is in practice today, with Ceva powering more than 19 billion of the world's most innovative smart edge products from AI-infused smartwatches, IoT devices and wearables to autonomous vehicles and 5G mobile networks.
Our headquarters are in Rockville, Maryland with a global customer base supported by operations worldwide. Our employees are among the leading experts in their areas of specialty, consistently solving the most complex design challenges, enabling our customers to bring innovative smart edge products to market.
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