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13 posts tagged with “AI”

Comparing performance of Jetson GPUs on balena

The NVIDIA Jetson is a popular IoT device for machine learning on the edge, and balenaOS supports over a dozen different models including the new Orin series. There’s plenty of benchmarks, specifications and marketing material available to ascertain the relative computing power of all the different NVIDIA Jetson devices. You’ll often find charts that compare AI performance in TOPS, GPU cores, CUDA…

September 06, 2023 / 5 min

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Running An AI Model On The Jetson GPU And CPU Simultaneously

There’s a popular breakfast dish in Philadelphia known as scrapple, which consists of pork scraps and trimmings - all the leftover parts of meat after butchering that could not be used or sold elsewhere to avoid waste. An AI project that we presented last year reminds me of scrapple because its goal is the same - leave no waste and utilize every bit of computing power of a NVIDIA Jetson Nano. This…

July 14, 2023 / 5 min

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Using NVIDIA Jetson NGC containers on balenaOS

Balena’s container-based technology streamlines development, deployment, and management of IoT Linux devices. However, when those devices include NVIDIA Jetson-based AI carrier boards and modules, there is the additional challenge of configuring an ML software stack such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and all of its underlying dependencies. BSP drivers, JetPack versions and CUDA libraries must match…

May 05, 2023 / 15 min

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Theia Scientific using balena and Grafana for Machine Learning-Powered Real-Time Image Analysis with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

As the name implies, textbook solutions are great solvers of textbook problems. Yet, production cases often introduce an unusual twist, setting you up against something unique. The existing "one size fits all" solutions indeed work, but, most of the time, for the price of a bitter aftertaste from paying for the underutilized functionality while one or two truly desired features are still lacking…

January 26, 2023 / 8 min

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Deploy and manage Plate Recognizer with balena

A popular use case for simple machine learning on current single board computers is license plate recognition. (Also known as “automatic license plate recognition” or ALPR) ALPR is used by many industries but is particularly useful for toll collection, property management and in the parking industry. blog header Plate Recognizer is a company that has a variety of paid and free products that…

January 20, 2023 / 10 min

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Deploy AI to edge fleets with balena's OpenVINO app

OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit developed by Intel for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing. It includes everything needed for developing AI applications, model optimization, and running inferencing on a device. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of deploying, tweaking, and testing OpenVINO AI models using the balena platform. Our example project, balena-openvino, is intended…

January 17, 2023 / 6 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

The Jetson line of modules brings accelerated AI to edge devices, allowing for truly innovative uses for IoT devices. The balena platform supports these modules (Nano, TX2, Xavier, Orin), enabling you to deploy, maintain, and update fleets of one to hundreds of thousands with ease. This is the third update of our series about how to use Jetson devices on the balena platform. How to use edge AI…

January 11, 2023 / 17 min

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How Lorenz Technology provisions and manages AI drone fleets at scale with balena

Lorenz Technology simplifies security and surveillance using a fleet of AI drones which collect, analyze, and share data in real time. Read on to see how they remove the friction from AI drone fleet maintenance and management using balena. Simplifying how they manage their AI drone fleets Lorenz Technology push boundaries of the security industry with their global fleet of AI-driven drones which…

February 23, 2022 / 2 min

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How to use BLE to communicate between an Arduino running Edge Impulse and a Pi running balenaOS

In this post, we’ll look at how Edge Impulse and balena work together and what led me down the path to improvise a solution using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) so the two could communicate with each other. Illustration of Edge Impulse and balena project I’ve been fascinated by the work of Edge Impulse, which is a platform that allows devices such as microcontrollers and single board computers to…

September 30, 2021 / 7 min

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How to run edge AI with OpenVINO on balenaCloud

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process from start to finish and show you how to deploy an AI application using an Intel NUC and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, fully containerized and ready to scale to any number of devices with balenaCloud. Developers getting ready to begin AI projects have no shortage of options when it comes to platforms, frameworks, models, and sample…

July 27, 2021 / 18 min

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How to use NVIDIA Jetson devices on balena

Access the full capabilities of Jetson devices in balenaCloud. Recent versions of balenaOS provide easy access to JetPack components, giving your containers access to the GPU’s power. Learn how to build a project to start accessing a world of AI tools, including CUDA and OpenCV, below. How to use edge AI tools with NVIDIA and balenaOS Hardware refresher Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded…

December 15, 2020 / 14 min

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Analyze sounds using Coral AI on the edge and fleet intelligence, Part 1

Can we use AI to help us identify and quantify noise pollution? In this project, we’re using a Coral Dev Board or a Raspberry Pi 4 with an attached Edge TPU to listen to ambient sounds 24/7 and categorize them for us. Use AI to identify and quantify sounds with Coral + balena We’ll also demonstrate how we could deploy a fleet of these devices (e.g. across an entire city) and feed new information…

October 22, 2020 / 14 min

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How to classify socks using a Raspberry Pi, Edge Impulse, and balena

We’re going to create a project on a Raspberry Pi with a Camera that distinguishes between socks using the Edge Impulse Machine Learning system running on balena. We all know that matching socks is a nightmare, so having an affordable, intelligent system saying if a sock matches with another sock is the best weekend project ever. Use AI on a Raspberry Pi with Edge Impulse and balena to determine…

September 14, 2020 / 11 min

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