What Edgeworx does

Edgeworx, Inc. is a private Berkeley, California-based company founded in 2017 that builds the Darcy platform, an integrated edge AI solution combining proprietary hardware, embedded software, and cloud management. The core offering is Darcy Cam, an all-in-one AI camera integrating video (1024x768), thermal (160x120 VOx microbolometer), and audio sensors with dual Google Coral AI accelerators (4 TOPS each), an ARM quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, and 128GB storage in tabletop, wall, or ceiling-mount form factor. This hardware runs the proprietary Darcy AI Engine for computer vision tasks including face detection, people counting, pose estimation, PPE compliance checks, and thermal fever detection. The platform also includes Darcy OS (with self-healing, remote access, and cloud logging), a Darcy SDK for custom model integration, and Darcy Cloud (formerly Edgeworx Cloud until February 2022) for fleet management, over-the-air updates, and remote configuration. The architecture is built on Eclipse ioFog, an open-source edge compute fabric that Edgeworx contributes to.

The company generates revenue through three streams: hardware sales of Darcy Cam units, subscription SaaS for Darcy Cloud across Free, Basic, Standard, and Premium support tiers, and subscriptions for pre-built vertical solutions including Darcy Protect (safety, PPE compliance, and fever screening), Darcy Aware (people counting and activity tracking), Darcy for Covid (pandemic-era prescreening), and Darcy Pass (mobile access survey app). Edgeworx targets AI developers, systems integrators, and end customers in education, healthcare, telecommunications, and IoT, with named deployments including Valley Christian Schools (15 cameras across 3 campuses processing 400 daily check-ins and over 7,000 visitor scans), Orange Telecom, ThingLogix, and Gabriel Health.

The company employs 1-10 people, operates a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led self-serve cloud onboarding with a partner channel recruiting systems integrators and resellers, and formed a core technology partnership with Google Coral in May 2021 enabling Coral-to-Darcy production deployment without code changes. Edgeworx has received industry recognition including CRN's 10 Hottest Edge Computing Startups of 2021 and selection in the Big50-2019 Startup Report, and forum activity indicates ongoing operations as recently as August 2023.

Name

Edgeworx

Legal name

Edgeworx, Inc.

Website

https://edgeworx.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Edgeworx provides the Darcy platform, an integrated edge AI solution combining proprietary multi-sensor camera hardware with embedded OS, a computer vision AI engine, and cloud fleet management to enable safety, compliance, and space awareness deployments at the edge.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Edge AI Platform

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Edge AI Deployment, Orchestration & OTA Model Updates (HDAAAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Edge Compute Platforms (Serverless Edge, Edge Functions) (HDABAGAB), Real-Time Vision at the Edge (on-device CV/video) (HDAAAJAE), Edge Compute Infrastructure (Servers, HCI, GPU/AI at Edge) (HDABAOAC), Edge Orchestration & Management Platforms (Provisioning, Fleet Mgmt) (HDABAOAF)

Keywords

• Edge AI platform
• Edge computing
• Computer vision hardware
• AI deployment software
• Edge device management

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of Darcy Cam AI camera hardware - an all-in-one edge AI device combining video/thermal/audio sensors with compute and AI accelerators
2. Software/SaaS Platform: Edgeworx Cloud (now Darcy Cloud) provides multi-device management SaaS with support tiers including Free, Basic, Standard, and Premium plans
3. Pre-built Solutions: Ready-to-deploy AI solutions including Darcy Protect (fever detection, PPE compliance) and Darcy Aware (people counting, access control) for vertical use cases

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Edgeworx sells the Darcy platform, an all-in-one edge AI solution that combines purpose-built hardware (Darcy Cam AI camera with thermal, video, and audio sensors plus Google Coral accelerators), embedded software (Darcy OS, AI Engine, SDK), and a cloud management portal (Darcy Cloud). Pre-built turnkey solutions include Darcy Protect for safety/PPE compliance and fever detection and Darcy Aware for people counting and access control, alongside Darcy Develop for custom AI application deployment from cloud to edge.

Product overview

Edgeworx offers the Darcy platform, an integrated hardware-software edge AI solution consisting of Darcy Cam (AI + thermal + audio camera hardware), Darcy OS, Darcy AI Engine, Darcy SDK, and Darcy Cloud management portal. The platform provides prebuilt solutions including Darcy Protect (safety/health compliance), Darcy Aware (activity management), and Darcy Develop (custom development), with support for Google Coral hardware integration. Edgeworx Cloud/Darcy Cloud provides the cloud-based fleet management, deployment, and monitoring layer. The platform is built on ioFog open source edge compute infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Darcy Protect: Safety and health compliance solution featuring fever detection, PPE compliance checks, and Darcy Pass smartphone app for prescreening
• Darcy Aware
• Darcy Develop
• Darcy Cam
• Darcy OS
• Darcy SDK
• Darcy AI Engine
• Darcy Pass
• Darcy for Covid

Products and services

• Darcy Platform All-in-one Edge AI development platform combining hardware (Darcy Cam), embedded software (Darcy OS, Darcy AI Engine, Darcy SDK), and cloud management (Darcy Cloud) to enable developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI applications from cloud to edge.
• Darcy Cam All-in-one AI camera hardware combining a 1024x768 video sensor, 160x120 VOx microbolometer thermal sensor, audio sensor, 1.5GHz quad-core ARM processor, dual Google Coral AI accelerators (4 TOPS each), 8GB RAM, and 128GB SSD, in tabletop, wall-mount, or ceiling-mount form factor, made in USA. Includes multifactor device ID, encryption, key storage, and tamper detection.
• Darcy Cloud Cloud-based multi-device management portal (SaaS) for deploying, monitoring, and managing edge AI applications across a fleet, with data retention policies, over-the-air updates, remote node configuration, fleet viewing, and SSH access to edge nodes. Offered in Free, Basic, Standard, and Premium support tiers on monthly billing.
• Darcy Protect Pre-built turnkey safety and health compliance solution providing automated PPE compliance checks (masks, hardhats, vests), thermal fever detection, and the Darcy Pass smartphone app for building access prescreening and customizable health surveys. Used by schools, businesses, and facilities for reopening safely.
• Darcy Aware Pre-built turnkey activity management solution providing people counting, visitor tracking, access awareness, unwanted activity detection, real-time alerts, and historical reporting for facility management and visitor monitoring.
• Darcy Develop Development platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run custom business AI solutions from cloud to edge using the Darcy SDK, APIs, and edgectl CLI, with seamless Google Coral prototyping-to-production handoff.

Quantifiable outcome

• Developers able to go from concept to pilot in weeks using Darcy platform
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google CoralcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 May 2021Google Coral partnered with Edgeworx to offer the fastest and easiest way to prototype with Coral and deploy into production. Edgeworx Cloud enables rapid prototyping on Coral devices and seamless deployment to Darcy production platform without code changes. The partnership enables 50%+ reduction in edge development time according to customer testimonial from Cogknition.
• Eclipse Foundation (ioFog)coreTechnology or IntegrationEdgeworx uses ioFog (now Eclipse ioFog) as the foundation for their edge compute platform. ioFog 2.0 released in May 2021 provides distributed edge compute infrastructure enabling containerized microservice deployment across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Zededa: Zededa provides a cloud-based edge orchestration and management platform with secure zero-touch provisioning, OTA updates, and a marketplace for edge apps — directly overlapping Edgeworx's Darcy Cloud / ioFog positioning for industrial and enterprise edge customers.
• Balena: Balena offers an IoT/edge platform for deploying and managing containerized workloads on fleets of edge devices, including its own hardware and a developer-friendly OS — closely comparable to Edgeworx's ioFog-based container orchestration and Darcy Cam/Darcy OS stack.
• ClearBlade: ClearBlade delivers an edge computing platform with containerized microservices, real-time data processing, and cloud-to-edge orchestration — a directly comparable developer-and-fleet approach to Edgeworx's ioFog/Darcy Cloud architecture.
• Particle: Particle provides an IoT edge platform combining cellular hardware, an edge OS, and a cloud management console with OTA updates — overlapping with Edgeworx's combined hardware (Darcy Cam) + cloud management (Darcy Cloud) GTM and SMB/developer target audience.
• FogHorn (now part of NTT): FogHorn specialized in edge AI inferencing and analytics on industrial equipment, competing head-to-head with Edgeworx in pushing low-latency AI workloads onto compact edge hardware for use cases like safety, monitoring, and access control.

Broad incumbents

• AWS IoT Greengrass: AWS IoT Greengrass is Amazon's edge runtime and management service for deploying cloud logic to local devices — the dominant hyperscaler offering in Edgeworx's category, with broader scope and deeper enterprise integration but less focus on a unified all-in-one camera appliance.
• Microsoft Azure IoT Edge: Azure IoT Edge extends Microsoft cloud services to edge devices with containerized workloads and managed orchestration — a broad incumbent competing in the same edge AI orchestration category as Edgeworx with significantly larger enterprise footprint and tooling.
• ADLINK Technology: ADLINK builds edge hardware and platforms for industrial AI, including edge AI cameras and NVIDIA Jetson-based systems — a broader incumbent offering comparable edge AI compute hardware to Darcy Cam but at industrial scale and with a more hardware-centric portfolio.

Others

• Eclipse IoT / Edge Native Working Group: The Eclipse Foundation houses the ioFog and Edge Native projects that Edgeworx builds upon; comparable as the open-source ecosystem peer that defines the standards and reference implementations Edgeworx's product extends commercially.

Emerging players

• AlwaysAI: AlwaysAI is a developer platform for building, training, and deploying computer vision AI on edge devices — an emerging peer focused on the same on-device CV/video use cases (people counting, PPE compliance) that Darcy Protect addresses.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/edgeworxio

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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