This new volume focuses on design principles for building self-powered AIoT (artificial intelligence of things) applications and their subsequent deployment. The book introduces the futuristic concepts of AIoT by incorporating self-powered systems, firstly by informing the reader of current AI/ML techniques and IoT technologies and then showing the path towards convergence of AI/IoT towards AIoT. The book also explains the many possible diverse applications of AIoT.

The combination of IoT for sensing and aggregation of data from the surroundings and AI for analysis and decision-making will expand cyber-physical intelligence towards achieving complete autonomy. However, as the deployment of sensors becomes increasingly ubiquitous, there will be a massive amount of sensor data aggregation and analyses for autonomous decision-making capabilities of AIoT products. This calls for substantial research and product development in self-powered technologies such as energy harvesters, supercapacitors, energy storage devices for energy generation, and energy-efficient technologies such as ultra-low power (ULP) microcontrollers, ULP microprocessors, and ULP smart sensors and actuators. This volume helps to fill that gap.

The volume presents research and product development towards structured convergence of self-powered systems, leading to pragmatic R&D deliverables for new products and services. The book is the first of its kind on reporting how the current AI and IoT are progressing toward the vision of AIoT. It goes one step further by integrating AIoT with self-powered systems to make them fully autonomous. Convergence will happen as the data volume increases, which is why the IT giants are betting on AIoT. This volume explores the hidden compatibility of self-powered AIoT.