19 posts tagged with “Energy & Utilities”

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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 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 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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Why is the balenaFin right for fleet owners? Part 3: Networking

This is the third in a series of posts about the key features that make the balenaFin the right choice for IoT fleet owners. For those who aren’t familiar with the balenaFin, you can take a look at this introductory post. We’ve divided the series into three posts that cover the main categories: storage, power and networking. When it comes time to choose an IoT device for professional workloads…

November 16, 2020 / 6 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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Make a security camera system in 30 minutes or less

Use a single-board computer or spare laptop, a webcam and free software to build your own surveillance system. There are many reasons for wanting security cameras: watching blind spots around your home, keeping a remote eye on your children playing, or finding where the delivery person lobbed your package. In fact, I have all of these reasons and more, so I set out to see how easy it would be for…

August 13, 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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Balena partners with Coral to enable AI at the edge

Today we’re announcing that balena and Coral are partnering to simplify how developers deploy and manage AI applications at the edge. Coral is a platform of hardware components, software tools, and example models for building devices with local AI. Coral's on-device ML acceleration technology helps developers build fast, efficient, and affordable solutions for the edge. Balena helps developers…

July 07, 2020 / 3 min

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Build a simple radiation monitor using a Raspberry Pi, InfluxDB and Grafana

We wrote in detail about our Raspberry Pi geiger counter project in another post, now this guide focuses on the basics necessary to build your own. Read on to discover how to assemble a background radiation monitor with a web dashboard to show pretty graphs (who doesn’t like pretty graphs?!). Introduction We build and feature projects that monitor the environment around them quite frequently at…

July 06, 2020 / 6 min

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Using OpenDataCam and balena to "quantify the world" with AI

Learn how to run OpenDataCam on balenaCloud, which adds a number of features to make managing a device (or a fleet of dozens) easy. This guide features deployment, remote configuration, how to use the built-in VPN, a public URL, and monitoring device diagnostics. What is OpenDataCam? OpenDataCam is an open source project, by move Lab, that tracks moving objects with live video analysis using CUDA…

June 19, 2020 / 12 min

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Build an AI-driven object detection algorithm with balenaOS and alwaysAI

This guide will show you how to set up a neural network model that runs an object detection algorithm in real time. We’ll be leveraging balenaOS and alwaysAI’s platform to greatly simplify the process. In this guide we build a an AI-driven neural network model running object detection using balena and alwaysAI Some prep work In a previous article, we showed you how to easily get started with…

March 12, 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