27 posts tagged with “balenaos”

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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 balenaOS Amazon AWS AMIs

Back in February, we wrote a post about the then-new availability of BalenaOS Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for Amazon AWS. In this post, we’ll examine in more detail what AMIs are, why you would want to use them with balenaOS, as well as an example use case you can try out for yourself. Post header image What is an AMI? We will start out with the assumption that you are already familiar with Amazon…

June 12, 2023 / 9 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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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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Offline Updates make it easier to update balena devices without the internet

Many balenaCloud users enjoy the seamless integration between their connected IoT devices and our tools that make device monitoring, managing, and updating easy. However, what if your devices have limited connectivity by design? Introducing Offline Updates: a process that lets you to preload and reflash a device so it retains its unique balena identity, apps, and configurations-- all without a…

February 09, 2021 / 6 min

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Introducing balenaBlocks: jumpstart your IoT app development

Our mission at balena is to “reduce friction for fleet owners and unlock the power of physical computing”-- it’s what guides every balenista’s work. However, there’s still complexity to be found in developing applications for your fleet, and we’re on our way toward solving this part of the puzzle. Meet the blocks balenaBlocks are an exploration of what we’ve been working on to reduce the friction…

December 16, 2020 / 11 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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Receive and store LoRa sensor data from TTN using a Raspberry Pi (part 2)

Back in the first part of this series, we detailed the process of building a simple LoRa-connected weather station to monitor temperature, humidity, and pressure, and send the readings to The Things Stack (TTS). In this second part, we’re going to take a look at how you can capture that data, record it and produce a dashboard and graphs to visualize the data. Note: 28th June 2021: The Things…

October 28, 2020 / 9 min

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Build a simple solar-powered weather station with LoRa & The Things Stack (part 1)

We’ve covered a couple of ways to build a LoRa gateway for The Things Stack (TTS) here on the blog and on YouTube, but what about if you want to take advantage of your own gateway and deploy some sensors in your home or garden? Build a simple solar-powered weather station This two-part series will explore how to build a simple, solar-powered weather station, and in the second part, set up a way to…

October 27, 2020 / 11 min

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Cellular + IoT isn't as hard as you think

I’ve always been a bit hesitant to add cellular networking to my IoT projects because I figured the cost of bandwidth and the hardware requirements were more trouble than they were worth. But after some experimentation, I got over my fears and found cellular wasn’t nearly as expensive or as complicated as I thought. In this blog post, I’ll explain how I went about adding cellular network service…

October 27, 2020 / 10 min

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How to run Wireguard VPN in balenaOS

This guide will teach you how to run Wireguard VPN using balenaOS. Wireguard is a simple, modern, and fast VPN solution that suits balenaOS and balenaCloud use cases well. We created this guide to address some user questions that we’ve received a few times on our forums. As with any solution at balena, it’s continuously improving to help our users with the various ways they put balena to work…

July 24, 2020 / 7 min

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Deploy a LoRa Basics™ Station gateway with TTN and balena

In the past we have showed how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) LoRa gateway with balena, and how to build an outdoor TTN LoRa gateway with balenaFin. In this blogpost, you will learn how to deploy a The Things Network (TTN) v2 and The Things Stack v3 LoRaWAN gateway running the newest Semtech Packet Forward protocol, the LoRa Basics™ Station. build a LoRa Basics Station with balena This…

July 22, 2020 / 13 min

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Rapid prototyping a GPS tracker with balenaOS: a community perspective

Our guest community author, Xabier Crespo of SC Robotics, walks through a GPS project that uses Docker and balenaOS, written in Python. Learn more about their prototyping process using balenaOS and try the project. My name is Xabier Crespo and I’m a co-founder at SC Robotics, a small consulting firm which develops electronics and embedded systems. We work on a lot of IoT (and IIoT) projects and…

July 08, 2020 / 14 min

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Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi access point or repeater

Remote work brings more opportunity to tackle projects from different parts of the home. However, without strong enough Wi-Fi strength, your productivity might sink. Use this project to create a Wi-Fi access point or repeater out of a Raspberry Pi so you can improve signal coverage while working from home or remotely on the road. Extend Wi-Fi coverage with this project In today’s modern life…

May 18, 2020 / 10 min

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Get started with computer vision and machine learning using balenaOS and alwaysAI

We’ll show you a simplified overview of computer vision and deep learning, and the easiest way to get started using balenaOS and alwaysAI. This guide combines the powers of balena with alwaysAI’s platform to get a project up and running quickly on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Go from “zero” to “AI hero” in just a blog post! Get started with computer vision and deep learning with balenaOS and alwaysAI…

March 03, 2020 / 11 min

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Getting Started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano using balena

UPDATED 11 Jan 2023: Note that as of 11 January 2023, we have an updated guide here with a more streamlined method to accomplish the examples in this post, as well as more background information about using NVIDIA Jetson devices with balena. When you’re building applications to run on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, you’ll often have a list of underlying libraries and dependencies such as CUDA, OpenCV…

February 26, 2020 / 7 min

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How to use balenaCloud container contracts in mixed-device environments to fine-tune your fleet

If you’re like most folks running an IoT environment, you have a mix of devices that don’t always support the same services and drivers, despite their common architecture. With balenaCloud container contracts, you can set rules that prevent devices from getting upgrades that make them fail -- and keep your entire fleet healthy. High-level diagram of how container contracts works With balenaCloud…

January 21, 2020 / 5 min

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Monitor air quality around your home with Home Assistant and balena

UPDATE on 12 May 2021: Note that the latest version of balenaSense (v2) no longer provides air quality readings or support for the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT. To learn more about these changes, see this section of the project’s readme file. This guide illustrates how to run Home Assistant using balena on a Raspberry Pi to create a beautiful dashboard accessible from anywhere in the world. In the case…

December 16, 2019 / 13 min

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balenaCloud ESR: Get peace of mind with only two OS updates a year

balenaCloud Extended Support Release process is here We’re excited to announce the Extended Support Release (ESR) line of operating system for Production and Enterprise fleets using balenaCloud. ESR makes it easier for at-scale fleet owners to have a more predictable OS update schedule while ensuring critical security or bug fixes are not missed. Who does ESR affect the most? This new OS release…

December 03, 2019 / 4 min

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Add new functionality to affordable CNC machines using CNC.js and balena

Here’s a simple way to add premium CNC machine features to low-cost options using CNC.js and balenaOS. Now you can outfit your shop with incredible maker tools without breaking the bank. Here's a balena logo scribed by one of my shop machines Fundamentally, I’m a maker at heart. I’ve been making things for years, but it’s only recently that I have had the time, space (and, yes, cashflow) to start…

November 26, 2019 / 9 min

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Beyond the cloud: Docker containers in space

On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been flown to space! Nico Maas, an IT Engineer & Ground Controller from the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (the German Aerospace Center…

October 09, 2019 / 4 min

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balena releases first fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4

Today, we are excited to announce the release of 64-bit balenaOS for the Raspberry Pi 4, providing support for the full 4GB of memory and allowing the simultaneous, side-by-side running of 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers - a first for the Raspberry Pi 4! BalenaOS is an open-source, minimal, Yocto Linux-based host OS tailored for containers. It enables a fast and modern workflow for many…

September 13, 2019 / 5 min

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Using Web Bluetooth to communicate with Bluetooth devices

balena web ble project Adding Bluetooth to your IoT project usually means developing native applications to interact with your devices. However, the new Web Bluetooth API specification allows web browsers to communicate directly with Bluetooth Low Energy devices. While the specification is not finalized yet, we can already experiment with it using Chrome on macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android. In…

September 12, 2019 / 7 min

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All good things come to an end.... (Including balenaOS 1.x)

In the fall of 2016, we released balenaOS 2.0 (then known as resinOS) 2.0 out into the world. Since then we’ve worked hard to incorporate our learnings from the field and continually improve balenaOS. In the last two years, we’ve increased the number of supported device types by over 3x, added the much-anticipated support for running multiple containers on devices, improved filesystem resilience…

April 10, 2019 / 1 min