Ubotica and IBM bring AI to satellites in one click

As space technology becomes increasingly commercialized, Ubotica partnered with IBM to simplify its use. A.I. Applications aboard low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dublin to start offers its CogniSAT edge computing platform for artificial intelligence systems on satellites, which enables AI inference to be performed directly on data in space.

It aims to address pressing challenges. Data storage and processing on the ground is costly and time consuming. And that is also the purpose of the new partnership.

The companies say their mutual customers will be able to use the CogniSAT platform to deploy their AI models directly to satellites “with one click.” The model can then be used in production. data Cosmic insight.

This approach promises twofold benefits. first, This increases autonomy and decision-making capabilities at the edge and reduces dependence on ground systems. Secondly, That translates into significant cost savings for satellite fleet operators, both in terms of capital and operations.

Capital expenditures will be reduced.”By reducing the amount of raw data that needs to be downlinked for processing, we save on communications infrastructure,” Sean Mitchell, CCO at Ubotica, told TNW.

“Operation costs are reduced because the bandwidth required to communicate insights from onboard processing is saved,” he added.

Under the new agreement, Ubotica will leverage IBM’s cloud infrastructure and watsonx.ai components, the tech giant’s AI and data platform.

Specifically, the startup will start by installing a Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS) cluster and build components on top of it to create a hybrid cloud AI platform.

Ubotica’s initial architecture (integrating elements of Open Data Hub) also matches the underlying watsonx.ai implementation. Over the next year, the company is likely to incorporate additional IBM services such as his Watson Studio, Watson Open Scale, and Cloud Pak for Data tools.

This partnership builds on the startup’s previous successes and will solidify Ubotica’s position in the world. space technology race.

The startup has been providing AI solutions to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA JPS since 2020. This year, he achieved another milestone with the launch of his CongiSAT-6, the first satellite to independently plan and generate its imaging tasks using space AI. Gain insights through onboard processing of image sensor data.