Equation 5 · How Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems Actually Work
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Once a signal has been conditioned, digitized and gated by an appropriate wake mechanism, the question becomes what a microcontroller-class processor can actually afford to compute with the power that remains. A useful way to make this concrete rather than hand-wavy is a simple energy identity: the energy an inference actually costs is . and the sustainable average power of an always-on system operating at duty cycle d (the fraction of time spent active rather than in a low-power sleep state) is
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