MatchX’s EdgeX AI Development Kit Promises AI on Edge with LoRaWAN Support


https://www.electronics-lab.com/matchxs-edgex-ai-development-kit-promises-ai-edge-lorawan-support/

I recently discovered this new board called the EdgeX AI Dev Kit made by German IoT guys MatchX following an hackster post. The specifications of the board look promising, but it also raises some questions as well. According to MatchX, EdgeX AI enables you to build complex data LPWAN or NB-IoT applications, such as videos, […]

BOXER-6638U: Embedded Computing on the Frontlines of Pandemic Response and Prevention


https://www.electronics-lab.com/boxer-6638u-embedded-computing-frontlines-pandemic-response-prevention/

AAEON, an industry leader in IoT and AI edge computing solutions, is helping to power the pandemic response with the BOXER-6638U rugged embedded box PC. Featuring Intel® Core™ i3 processors, the BOXER-6638U brings the power of industrial computing to mobile X-ray machines, used to perform chest X-ray scans of suspected COVID-19 patients. This vital equipment […]

Smart voice control SoC targets home appliances


https://www.electronics-lab.com/smart-voice-control-soc-targets-home-appliances/

Xsail Technology, a subsidiary of set-top box chipset provider ALi Corporation, has launched the G1, a low power and cost-effective AI chipset to be designed into all kinds of voice-controlled home appliances. by Julien Happich @ eenewseurope.com Xsail has developed its own proprietary Edge Voice Process Unit (EVPU) for NN (Neural Network) based voice recognition […]

Maixduino AI Development Board K210 RISC-V AI+lOT ESP32


https://www.electronics-lab.com/maixduino-ai-development-board-k210-risc-v-ailot-esp32/

Based on Kendryte K210 RISC-V AI processor, Maixduiono AI development board comes with MI AI module and ESP32 module for WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity in Arduino UNO form factor. K210 comes with dual-core processor chip with independent FPU, 64 bits CPU bit width, 8 MB on-chip SRAM, 400 adjustable nominal frequency, and double-precision FPU supporting […]

Meet the Lindenis V536 SoM & SBC Designed for AI Video Processing and 4K Encoding


https://www.electronics-lab.com/meet-lindenis-v536-som-sbc-designed-ai-video-processing-4k-encoding/

Similar to the earlier Lindenis V5 designed for AI video processing and 4K encoding, Lindenis has released another single-board computer that uses SoM and baseboard design for 4K camera applications called the Lindenis V536. The Lindenis V536 which runs on a new Allwinner dual Cortex-A7 processor and a single MIPI SCI interface was designed for […]

Google Announces New Coral products for 2020


https://www.electronics-lab.com/google-announces-new-coral-products-2020/

Being one of the frontrunners in AI development and having an understanding of the potentials and opportunities in Edge Computing and Local AI, Google started its sojourn into the provision of hardware components and companion software tools for the development of Local AI products last year, with the launch of the Coral Platform. The platform […]

New GAP9 IoT offers five times lower power consumption than GAP8


https://www.electronics-lab.com/new-gap9-iot-offers-five-times-lower-power-consumption-gap8/

Last year, GreenWaves Technologies launched the GAP8 multi-core RISC-V microcontroller, aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge at ultra-low power consumption. Results from the GAP8 IoT SoC shows it performs inference at 3.7mA against 60mA for the same workload on STM32F7 Arm Cortex-M7 MCU. As a result of this performance, the company has now expanded […]

Developer kit delivers AI solutions to makers


https://www.electronics-lab.com/developer-kit-delivers-ai-solutions-makers/

Adding muscle to its SBC and IoT solutions OKdo, part of Electrocomponents, is now selling the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit to its range. The kit comes with out-of-the-box support for full desktop Linux, compatible with many peripherals and accessories, ready-to-use projects and tutorials to help makers get started. The Jetson platform brings what the […]

Smart Marbles and AI to detect flaws in pipelines


https://www.electronics-lab.com/smart-marbles-ai-detect-flaws-pipelines/

A small team of researchers led by Peter Baltus, professor of microelectronics at the department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven Institute of Technology, the Netherlands, has developed small circuit boards equipped with sensors that can easily fit into a small golf-sized ball. While moving inside a pipeline, these swarm of smart marbles or balls can […]

DepthAI enables real time depth vision to the Raspberry Pi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/depthai-enables-real-time-depth-vision-raspberry-pi/

For a while now, Edge computing on the Raspberry PI has experienced a bit of ups and downs, especially with the trend of featuring AI in everything. The Raspberry Pi most times does not function properly with any reliable AI applications. A typical object detection on the Raspberry Pi would produce about 1 – 2 […]