Microsoft Azure IoT edge

Just launched before IoT expo Amsterdam 2018 (19-20 June 2018), a brilliant approach by Microsoft Azure: embedding intelligence to the IoT devices (namely IoT edges), proposing containerized-driven devs-ops using all their SaaS, providing a public registry for massive involvement, and building a partnership with IoT hardware vendors. It’s a big ecosystem. Just get the deployment … Read moreMicrosoft Azure IoT edge

Edge embedded system: UP core

Hardware makers are competing to make a credit card-sized single board computer (SBC) that has ‘enough’ computing power on which ‘intelligence’ can be put. As an example, a drone that could take actions immediately when perceiving a certain pattern without beforehand coordinating with the ground station. Interestingly one of them is based on Eindhoven, UP … Read moreEdge embedded system: UP core

GPU Inference at Edge: NVIDIA Jetson TX-2

NVIDIA Jetson TX2, a 64-bit arm board equipped with 256 CUDA cores (Pascal architecture), has arrived at the home during the holiday season. I was so lucky having the board together with the development kit for only 300 Eur, including the shipping fee (from UK to NL) due to the educational discount (the normal price … Read moreGPU Inference at Edge: NVIDIA Jetson TX-2

Precision agriculture for a rural area with limited connectivity

Among many hyped agriculture technologies under industry 4.0 umbrella I’ve ever seen, this Microsoft solution, namely FarmBeats, appropriately addresses Indonesia’s geographical challenges. As a solution architect, what I like the most from the presentation is that how they synthesized the problem and designed a solution for it.Here are the summaries of the challenges:1) limited connectivity … Read morePrecision agriculture for a rural area with limited connectivity