Draft:Numurus
American edge AI software company
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Numurus is an American software company based in Seattle, Washington, that develops NEPI (Numurus Edge Platform Interface), an open-source edge AI and automation platform for robotics and autonomous systems. The company was founded in 2017 by Jason Seawall and Ian McKissick.
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Background
Jason Seawall co-founded BlueView Technologies in 2004, an underwater sonar and robotic sensing company that was acquired by Teledyne Technologies in 2012.[1] Following the acquisition, Seawall served as Vice President of Technology at Teledyne BlueView and later as Vice President of Technologies for Teledyne's Marine division, overseeing more than 25 engineering groups. In 2017, Seawall left Teledyne to found Numurus with a focus on software that reduces the cost and time required to develop edge AI and robotic automation solutions.
Numurus is a member of the NVIDIA Metropolis partner program for vision AI.[2]
NEPI Platform
NEPI (Numurus Edge Platform Interface) is an open-source software platform built on ROS and ROS 2, the Robot Operating System frameworks widely used in robotics development.[3] NEPI provides plug-and-play hardware drivers, AI model management, event-driven automation, data collection, and a browser-based interface for configuration and monitoring. The platform is designed to run fully offline on embedded hardware without cloud connectivity, making it applicable in field robotics, subsea, maritime, and defense environments where network access is unavailable or unreliable.
NEPI runs on NVIDIA Jetson embedded computing platforms and x86 Linux systems. A Docker container version allows the platform to run on standard Linux laptops without dedicated edge hardware.
NEPI is available under an open-source license for education, evaluation, and prototyping. Commercial licenses apply for production deployments. The source code is publicly available at github.com/nepi-engine.
Numurus holds a US patent (US 12,222,307 B2) covering the core NEPI software architecture.
Customers and deployments
Documented deployments of NEPI include:
- Ocean Aero: Ocean Aero partnered with Numurus to deploy NEPI on its TRITON autonomous surface-submersible vehicles for maritime inspection and monitoring. The initial project, conducted in support of the Defense Innovation Unit's Unmanned Systems for Maritime Domain Awareness program, automated 360-degree threat detection across multiple cameras and was completed within a few months. Ocean Aero CEO Kevin Decker stated that the platform saved the team significant development work.[4] The partnership has since expanded to include pan and tilt target tracking, auto-camera stabilization, thermal imaging integration, and event-triggered data collection automation.
- WESMAR (Inov8v Marine Group): WESMAR used NEPI to develop and deliver AI-enabled smart sonar products to customers within five months, with a two-engineer team.[5]
- VideoRay: VideoRay integrated NEPI to add AI-driven automated inspection to its ROV control system for subsea inspection applications.[6]
- University of Washington Tacoma: UW Tacoma used NEPI as the sensor and AI platform for an autonomous ferry research project.
- Lane Community College: Lane Community College's Aviation UAS Program used NEPI to build an AI-based drone automation and remote monitoring system for a student search and rescue capstone project.[7]
Funding
In October 2022, Numurus secured $2 million in funding led by Tokusui Corporation of America.[8] The funding was used to support product development and professional services expansion. Prior to this round, the company had been funded through individual investors who had also backed BlueView Technologies.
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