SolidRun Launches Its Edge Vision Powerhouse, with Up to 20 TOPS of Compute: The SolidSense AIoT
Smart trail camera design hides either a Renesas RZ/V2N or Hailo-15 inside, for up to 20 TOPS of ML and AI compute on board.
Embedded computing and Internet of Things (IoT) specialist SolidRun has announced its take on a smart trail camera: the SolidSense AIoT, an optionally solar-powered gadget that packs the buyer's choice of Renesas or Hailo chips for up to 20 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of on-device compute for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) workloads.
"SolidSense AIoT is a generic [hardware] platform built to simplify development and deployment of vision AI solutions for remote environments," the company says of its creation. "Integrated with a variety of sensors and based on real-time situational awareness it remains in ultra-low-power standby mode, activating and communicating only when needed."
In appearance, the camera's design looks like any other trail camera — albeit one with a chunky antenna sticking out of one side, indicating the ability to transmit data in addition to recording video locally. There's a single camera in the upper-middle, surrounded by four infrared LEDs for night-vision recoding, and a passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor beneath. There's even a grille for a speaker and microphone, which doesn't harm the hardware's IP64 weatherproof rating.
Internally, though, there's a lot more going on than in your usual trail camera. The SolidSense AIoT, brought to our attention by CNX Software, features the buyer's choice of a Renesas RZ/V2N or a Hailo-15 of on-board accelerator — meaning, in addition to powerful general-purpose compute, either 15 or 20 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute for on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Other features include an ambient light sensor, temperature and humidity sensor, inertial measurement unit (IMU), dual-band 802.11ac WI-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, a SIM card slot for LTE Cat1bis cellular connectivity, a USB 3.1 port, and microSD Card storage alongside up to 256GB of eMMC. THe housing also plays host to three 18650 lithium-ion batteries, with USB Type-C charging — or buyers can pick up an optional solar panel to keep them topped up in-the-field without manual intervention.
MOre information on the SolidSense AIoT is available on the SolidRun website; the company had not disclosed pricing at the time of writing.