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22 posts tagged with “IT”

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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IoT fleet monitoring with Datadog and balenaCloud: How small agent containers make a big impact

One challenge of managing a fleet of dispersed IoT devices is gathering and monitoring device metrics in real-time. Let’s check out how companies like Datadog are adding monitoring capabilities using lightweight containers that are ideal for IoT and edge devices. Datadog’s newest monitoring agent requires as little as 36MB of memory, 63MB of disk space, and very modest network throughput to…

February 24, 2021 / 9 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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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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Never lose your stuff again: tracking Bluetooth beacons with a Raspberry Pi

Never lose something important to you again by using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and Raspberry Pi sensors to track your stuff. Are your keys at home or in the office? By following this guide, you’ll soon know. Introduction Contrary to my family’s opinion, I have a terrific memory. I can remember the words and theme tune to almost every 1980’s UK TV advert ever made, for instance. However…

August 18, 2020 / 14 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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Put friends and loved ones on the big screen with this instant video call project

Maybe you know someone who doesn’t know their Hangouts from their Skype, or who doesn’t have any internet connected devices at all, but would love to see you on a video call. How about connecting a TV and webcam to a Raspberry Pi and turning it into a video window you can remotely administer? Let’s go! For some households, having the whole family crowd round a tablet to video call friends or…

April 29, 2020 / 10 min

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