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VergeSense (YC S17) is building "Amazon Go" for buildings. Our easy-to-deploy computer vision sensors help large enterprises automate day-to-day operations, execute dynamic workfor…

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At a local-level, each sensor builds a background model, which we diff against & combine w/ inference outputs for detections (background modeling helps reduce our false-positive ra…

Retail analytics are a potential use-case, but we've decided to focus on space-optimization for buildings because we believe it's an underserved market relative to the opportunity.…

Great question - we believe there are a lot of potential add-on modules, especially around building control. One that is gaining a lot of interest recently is using people-counting…

Hello HN! This is Dan and Kelby (tripleplay369), the founders of VergeSense ( http://www.vergesense.com ). We're building an AI-powered facility management platform that helps comp…

ByteLight - http://www.bytelight.com - Boston, MA (on-site) ByteLight is building a combined hardware/software platform for delivering contextual mobile computing experiences. Our …

Exactly. Hardware needs pre-funding more than anything. The article is opening up a discussion for alternative models that work better than Kickstarter. The problem with Kickstarte…

Yes - but it doesn't work for hardware. It leads to projects failing to deliver on their expectations. Failures hurt the Kickstarter brand. They know that. Which is why they're mov…

Indoor positioning using LED lights. Our market is in enterprise (not the home). We're using selfstarter to experiment if there's enough demand for individual developer/hacker kits…

Kickstarter has been responsible for funding Oscar nominations, museums, and countless creative projects. Their 2012 summary is full of stunning success stories. The goal of this p…

This is we like the selfstarter model. Backers don't get charged until the product is ready. And project creators are incentivised to use efficient techniques that get their produc…

I believe there's an opening for a crowdfunding model focused purely on hardware startups. Perhaps some of you are already working on it. App.net, Lockitron and most recently Lumaw…

They didn't cite a specific reason - only that it "wasn't in their focus". My take is that they are going to be very selective about admitting hardware projects, given some of the …

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ByteLight (Cambridge, MA) - Full time, local, relocation We're a funded, early stage start-up creating a revolutionary indoor GPS platform using LED lights. We're looking for an ex…