IngDan Labs

IngDan Labs plays the role of the world technology “Connector” that connects demand and supply, facilitating the development of IoT/AI related industries by providing value-added services.

Dream it, Build it; Disrupt it, Popularize it!

That’s the core philosophy of IngDan Labs.

Established 2016

Established in early 2016 with a group of world-class researchers, experts, and engineers, IngDan Labs is the R&D unit of Cogobuy Group. It is a public and open laboratory with a focus on IoT and AI technologies.

Our Vision

By always looking a step ahead, IndDan Labs creates innovative solutions and services in the critical path of IoT, AI, and related industries.

Adding Value

We provide value-added technology consulting services and solutions to corporations, innovators and startups.

The pitch

Complete turnkey solutions from incubator and accelerator functions to cutting-edge product research and development (R&D) for making and bringing your prototypes to a reality.

Founder – Shipeng Li

Dr. Shipeng Li is an influential & leading expert on multimedia, IoT, and AI, holding 188 US patents and an author or co-author of 330+ international papers. Before founding IngDan labs he worked for Microsoft from 1995, becoming a Microsoft Partner, Principal Researcher, and a founding member of Microsoft Research Asia, named the world’s “hottest” Computer lab by the MIT.

Our Team

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More than 10 years of mechanical & electrical engineering, mechanical design, and project management experience, gained through working at Siemens, Flextronics, Nokia and Microsoft. Yuming has followed the trends of mechanical materials applications and development. He is also highly familiar with the relationship between mechanical design and key processes such as injection molding, stamping, CNC, painting, and assembly. He is experienced in product concept design, the development process, and project management. Yuming is an innovator of several mechanical design related IPs.

Yuming Geng graduated from Tianjin Polytech University.

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12+ years of diverse experience in Hardware design/engineering, specializing in baseband; battery and energy management for mobile phones, IoT, and VR. Guiqiang also has years of experience leading Hardware Architecture design; supply chain; concept prototyping; and project management. Prior to joining IngDan Labs, Guiqiang held a number of senior engineer and Hardware project management positions in international companies, including Project Manager at Nokia; Senior Engineer at Sony Ericsson; and Hardware FAE at Intel.

Huipeng obtained his B.E from Beijing Jiaotong University.

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16+ years of diverse experience in software architecture/engineering. He is versed in many areas including cloud; large scale frameworks; operating systems; BSP/drivers; 3Gprotocol stack; multimedia; and middleware. Hailong had been an architect in leading large- scale software architecture design for 14 years prior joining IngDan Labs, and held a number of software architect positions in major international companies, including Chief Software Architect at Microsoft; Chief Software Architect at Nokia; Senior System Architect at Sony Ericsson; and Software Architect at Siemens.

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14+ years of experience in the mobile communication industry, embedded system IoT, and Cloud. He previously worked for many international companies including Flextronics, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Microsoft. He focused on IoT related technologies in the Smart Things department of Microsoft before joining IngDan Labs. He is one of key designers of the K-system at IngDan Labs.

Renhui received his Bachelor of Electronic and information engineering from Jinlin University.

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Over 10 years of experience of software development, architecture and program management. He is versed in embedded system integration, driver development, wireless connectivity and IoT device. And He had worked on 3D graphic Engine and VR for 3 years prior joining IngDan Labs, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and Nokia.

Guangjun obtained his B.E from Dalian Jiaotong University and M.E. from computer simulation and VR Lab of Beihang University.

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Bingshan Li has over 15 years of experience in software development, architecture design and engineering. He has rich experience and deep knowledge in distributed IP router and mobile platforms, and is proficient in desktop and embedded applications development. He has worked in Huawei, Nokia, Microsoft and IBM in software development. Bingshan has 3 national patents in IP communications and 1 international patent in the field of mobile phones.

He received his bachelor's and master's degree in computer software from Dalian University of Technology in 1997 and 2000.

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Worked at Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft for more than 12 years prior to joining Ingdan Labs. His focus has been on various technology domains, including embedded, mobile Internet, IoT, and AI.

Jianming has rich software development and project management experience. He has the full stack capability from Client-side to the Server-side, and has deep experience working on scenarios, integration and optimization of IoT platforms and online Services. He also has 2 years of experience working for a start-up, and four patents to date.

Jianming graduated from the University of Nankai in 2002, with a bachelor’s degree with specialization in electronic materials and components.

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More than 15 years of embedded software design and software development management experience. He has been involved in development on mobile phones, chips, bracelets, VR and IoT embedded software. He has studied in depth on embedded software in many areas; and focused on system analysis, debugging, and optimization.

Prior joining IngDan Labs, Shijie worked in Research and Development, and Project Management roles at Nokia, Siemens and Huawei.

Shijie obtained his Bachelor’s in Telecommunications from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

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10+ years of experience in software development. He worked as development manager in multinational telecom company 4 years, and in project management for 5 years. Wei is PMP certificated. He has rich experience in agile development management (Scrum, KanBan, TDD, etc.), and a strong background in Internet/Mobile software development technologies and processes.

Wei received his Master in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology.

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More than 10 years of Internet experience. He previously worked for Funshion Online, Baidu, and Qihoo 360 in software development, focusing on the service technology, platform architecture and data mining. Lei has significant experience in internet project management, especially on high performance, highly concurrent network architecture. Lei is an expert of software languages such as Php, Go, and OpenResty, and has a very deep understanding of service modules. Lei is constantly improving and upgrading the software architecture and technology development processes utilized by IngDan Labs.

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Software Development Manager, and has been engaged in software for the Internet for 8 years. He was responsible for the development of Baidu Map's Symbian version, as well as the Sohu Video, Windows Phone, and Win8 version of the architecture design. Kuifeng also participated in the architecture reconfiguration of the Weibo client, and was responsible for the work related to Wanda iOS.

Kuigeng graduated from the Northwestern University.

Open AI + enabling platform

Kepler System (or simply K-System) is an open AI + enabling platform developed by IngDan Labs, which enables those developers with little AI/IoT/Hardware experience to quickly prototype their AI-based products, and helps them to solve many pressing problems that hinder wide adoption of AI technologies.
  • Open Cloud Services

  • Open AI-based UI

  • Kepler System

  • Open Platform

  • Open Datas

Open Cloud Services

  • No need to bind any particular cloud services to its hardware and software platforms

  • It allows the developers to switch to different cloud services

  • Set standard and unified APIs for various AI service calls

Open Platform

With cost-effective BOM, and scalability from simple (e.g. sensor unit) to complex (e.g. robotics) products, Kepler System can be regarded as the “Raspberry Pie” of the AI era.
  • Intelligent Module

    It provides a hardware platform with built-in well-tuned voice module that can be readily connected to voice related AI services.

  • Circuit Board

    The hardware board can be conveniently extended to connect with other IoT sensors, actuators, and devices through a service bus architecture.

  • API

    A set of unified APIs for connecting AI services.

  • Software Platform

    It provides a customized Android-based software platform tailored just for IoT devices and AI services.

Open AI-based UI

  • Home

    The system can identify the user's location and interact with the intelligent product

  • Enterprise

    Transform traditional industry into AI-based industry

  • Teaching and research application

    Can be used in artificial intelligence teaching experimental system and artificial intelligence in-depth research and development

Open Datas

  • User

    Put the control of data back to the user

  • Developer

    The developer need not to think about share and trading of data

  • Service providers

    The service providers will have open data and fusion of data from different sources

Kepler Module

Designed for Robotics, IoT and consumer device maker who need voice interaction and AI service, the Ingdan® Kepler AI module provides one highly integrated total solution which could dramatically speed up the development cycle and drive the AI device innovation.

Powerful processing in a small package: High-end computing and large memory in a tiny package, flexible to fit into different mechanical form factors.

Microphone array and dedicated voice processor help to achieve 360 degree 5 meter far field voice and accurate key words detection

The advanced algorithm and smart audio amplifier helps to get the maximum possible volume and best linearity from small speaker which contribute to reducing the overall system cost and space constrained design.

Kepler Module Brochure

Laptop-class wireless communication, with 802.11ac for extended range and bandwidth.

20 multiplexed GPIO interfaces which could be configured as SPI/UART/I2C for design flexibility.

Context-Awareness Sensing technology: The rich sensor list [Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnet, Ambient Light and proximity sensor] and sensor hub architecture enables accurate, real-time sensor data with minimal power consumption.

Ultra-low power consumption for long standby time with optimization for battery power

Tailored android OS with optimization for Robotics and IoT devices

Kepler Module Brochure
Major components
SoC Quad-core ARM Cortex A7
RAM 2GB DDR3, 16bit X 2
FLASH Storage 8GB eMMC (v5.0)
WiFi Broadcom 43340 802.11 1/b/g/n/ac
Dual-band (2.4GHZ and 5GHZ)
On board ceramic antenna
Bluetooth BT4.0, with BTLE
Microphone Array 3 digital high SNR 65dB microphone
Voice Processor Always-on audio processor with advanced algorithm for noise suppression, beamforming and key words wakeup
External Interface
PER-EXT UARTX2 [MODEM, Robotic MCU], I2CX2 [sensor], SPI [Sensor Hub], USB [4G Modem]
USB2.0 USB OTG, USB Host
HDMl Display
DC Input 3.3V-5V, 2A
FW+SW Android 7.0, Integrated driver for Smart Audio PA, Microphone array and key words wakeup
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About Us

About Us

Our teamWith a group of world-class researchers, experts and engineers

We belong toIngDan Labs is the R&D unit of Cogobuy Group.

Our roleAs the world's technology "connector", Connected to the supply and demand side

We focus onAI + IoT

Our object-orientedCorporations/innovators/startups

We provideValue-added technology services

Our idea“Dream it, Build it; Disrupt it, Popularize it!”