Image sensor for processing sensor data to reduce data traffic to host system

A method comprising:

• collecting data from a sensor;
• storing, by a memory device stacked with the sensor, the collected data;
• storing, by the memory device, a first portion of an artificial neural network (ANN);
• communicating, by a host interface, with a host system that stores a second portion of the ANN;
• generating, by an inference engine of the memory device, inference results using the stored collected data as input to the first portion of the ANN;
• and
• sending, by the host interface, the inference results to the host system for processing by the host system using the second portion of the ANN.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed on at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to:

• store at least a portion of an artificial neural network (ANN) received from a computing system;
• collect data from a sensing device;
• store the collected data;
• generate inference results using the collected data as input to the at least a portion of the ANN;
• and
• send, by a communication interface, the inference results to the computing system for processing.