Embedded systems and Edge AI for Northern businesses. Real engineering depth. From BSP to production inference. Edge to Enterprise, underpinned by Cloud.
Businesses have the vision for intelligent hardware. They can't find anyone who can actually build it.
AI engineers have never touched real hardware. Embedded engineers have never deployed a model. The people who can bridge both — from system integration to production inference — are genuinely scarce. Finding them is hard. Affording them is harder. The businesses that need them most can't reach them.
That's the gap Manchester Edge AI Lab exists to close.
To build world-class embedded systems and edge AI capability in the North — developing local talent, serving Northern businesses, and positioning the region at the forefront of intelligent hardware.
Expert embedded and edge AI capability without London price tags.
Keeping Northern engineers in the North. Building on university output.
An independent company with a community mission — reinvesting in the Northern tech ecosystem.
Manchester first. Leeds, Liverpool, and beyond as the network grows.
Community isn't a legal structure. It's how we operate. Man Edge AI Lab is aiming to achieve the following:
Every month, a set number of days are available at no cost to early-stage Northern hardware founders who need access to production silicon and embedded expertise.
Every demo, tool, and case study built in the lab is published on GitHub under manchester-edgeai-lab — free for anyone to use, learn from, and build on.
A regular meetup for Northern embedded engineers, hardware founders, and IoT teams. No sales pitch. Just knowledge sharing.
Structured placements giving Northern students real embedded and edge AI experience they can't get anywhere else in the region.
We publish what we learn — blog posts, LinkedIn, GitHub. The more we give away, the stronger the community becomes.
TensorRT, eIQ, ONNX Runtime. Get your trained model running on real hardware at the latency and power budget your product actually requires.
EdgeOps — real-time inference health monitoring for Jetson and i.MX deployments. Know what your edge AI is doing in production.
Bring-up on NXP i.MX 9x, NVIDIA Jetson and Microcontrollers (Arduino · ESP32). BSP configuration, Yocto layer integration, sensor integration. No dev kit theatre.
NTAG 424 DNA cryptographic verification. Secure product identity for supply chain, luxury goods, and access control.
Edge or on-prem devices to ERP dashboard. Rust-based data pipelines from device to cloud via Conduo.
LTE-M, NB-IoT, LoRaWAN. From cellular tracker into AWS, GCP and Azure Cloud.
Workshops, lab days, and open sessions. Production silicon access for Northern hardware startups and university spin-outs.
See what gets built — real-world examples across manufacturing, supply chain, healthcare, retail and more
Read the Blog →Deploying and operating AI on constrained hardware at the edge. We work from the BSP upward — system integration, middleware, and production inference — in Rust, on real silicon.
You have the idea. You need embedded expertise without a full-time hire. Lab access, prototyping support, and fractional CTO capability to get from concept to validated hardware.
Your product works. Now you need to add AI, connectivity, or authentication. We integrate edge capability into existing products without rebuilding from scratch.
Predictive maintenance, quality inspection, energy monitoring. Made Smarter-aligned engagements delivering real operational improvement on real factory floors.
The bridge from academic prototype to commercial product. Production hardware, real-world deployment experience, and a network of Northern tech contacts.
Manchester Edge AI Lab is an independent company with a community mission — operated in partnership with Resolutis Ltd. Every engagement feeds capability back into the Northern tech ecosystem while building a commercially sustainable business.
Aligned with Made Smarter, Innovate UK, and GMCA funding programmes
University partnerships keeping Northern engineers in the North
25+ years of embedded systems experience at Apple, Google, JLR, and Intel
Manchester anchor expanding to Leeds, Liverpool, and beyond
Talk to us about lab access, a scoped engagement, or a technical partnership. We work with Northern startups, manufacturers, and scale-ups who need to turn edge AI vision into working product.
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