An Open-Source
Software Environment
for AI and automation development on NVIDIA Jetson and other edge-compute hardware platforms.
Sensor and Control Drivers
AI and Automation Applications
Browser-Based User Interfaces
System and Software Management
About NEPI
NEPI software accelerates AI and automation prototyping and gets your solutions to market faster.
Until now, embedded chips for processing AI and automation have been limited to a handful of bare-bones software environment options, leaving a lot of work to get projects off the ground and create product-ready solutions. NEPI provides a full-featured, open-source software environment for embedded AI and automation that speeds up both prototyping and delivery of customer solutions. With a library of plug-and-play sensor drivers, drag-and-drop AI and automation applications, a customizable browser-based user interface system, and a native ROS API interface, NEPI lets engineers focus on solution development, not building OS environments, sensor drivers, and middleware systems. NEPI installs on top of the base operating system provided by chip manufacturers to create a feature-rich environment for creating edge-AI and robotic automation solutions in days, not months. Let NEPI accelerate your solution development and significantly reduce the time and cost to bring your next great innovation to market.
Fully Customizable
While NEPI delivers a ready-to-deploy solution out of the box, with all of the NEPI source-code available and great documentation, NEPI is the perfect jumping off point for your next smart system project development.
Continuous Improvements
Our NEPI development team and a growing community of developers is constantly adding new hardware drivers, applications, features, and security improvements, so you don't have too.
On Demand Support
No more wasting time searching outdated forums and videos for answers. With amazing documentation and on-demand support offerings you can get your questions answered in minutes, not days.
NEPI APPLICATIONS
NEPI is a versatile platform supporting AI-enabled smart solutions for nearly any application.
SMART SENSING SOLUTIONS
Smart sensing solutions aim to create information, not raw data, in real-time at the point of data collection. Such solutions have several benefits including reducing the need for human-in-the-loop operations, providing robotic platforms and manipulators actionable information, and managing enhanced data processing algorithms as environmental conditions or mission objectives change.
SMART MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Smart monitoring solutions aim to both detect and take actions when specific situations occur. These actions can include a combination of both static and dynamic responses from logging data, sending alerts and statistical data, tracking objects, activating alarms, turning lights on/off, locking/opening doors, or anything else your monitoring solution might require.
SMART INSPECTION SOLUTIONS
Smart inspection solutions aim to increase the quality of critical data collection, while reducing the quantity of non-critical data collection for both human and robotic inspection operations. In many situations, the cost of inspection operations is high, so getting the right data during an inspection on the first pass is important to reduce costs and deliver the needed results to stakeholders as fast as possible.
SMART SYSTEM LEARNING TOOLS
Smart system learning tools aim to help educators leapfrog the technology complexities hampering the STEM education community from teaching the skills students need to work in the rapidly growing AI and automation industry. The challenge is not that the technologies directly related to the skills these students need to learn are overly complex, it is that the underlying supporting technologies are both vast and, in some cases, extremely complex.
NEPI Case Studies
Just a few examples of NEPI user stories
Monitoring Automation
Robotic threat detection solution connecting on-board cameras, artificial intelligence, and a USV control system.
Inspection Automation
Robotic inspection automation leveraging integrated AI and automation capabilities connected to an ROV control system.
Search Automation
Robotic search and rescue project to develop AI-based drone automation and remote monitoring capabilities.
Process Automation
A sensor modernization project to add real-time AI-driven analytics and cloud-based monitoring to an existing sonar product line.
LEARN more about NEPI
Explore the extensive library of NEPI user and developer resources available.
Since NEPI was developed to simplify and accelerate AI and automation solution development, it only makes sense that we put just as much effort into creating amazing documentation, tutorials, and videos that further accelerate your project efforts. Below are links to some pages you may find helpful as you start to explore the NEPI Engine software platform for your next project.