Seeed Studio has introduced the launch of the SenseCAP A1102 LoRaWAN Imaginative and prescient AI Sensor, a two-part gadget designed to ship no-code laptop imaginative and prescient on the edge alongside long-range low-power communications capabilities — and presents a less expensive RS-485 variant, too.
“SenseCAP A1102 [is] an IP66-rated LoRaWAN imaginative and prescient AI sensor, superb for low-power, long-range tinyML edge AI purposes,” says Seeed’s Violet of the discharge. “It comes with three pre-deployed fashions (human detection, folks counting, and meter studying) by default. In the meantime, with SenseCraft AI platform, you should use the pre-trained fashions or practice your personalized fashions conveniently inside just a few clicks. After all, SenseCAP A1102 additionally helps TensorFlow Lite and PyTorch.”
Seeed’s newest SenseCAP product is the A1102, an edge-AI digital camera utilizing tinyML to run your selection from 300 pre-trained or customized laptop imaginative and prescient fashions. (📷: Seeed Studio)
The digital camera aspect of the {hardware} is constructed across the Himax WiseEye2 HX6538 processor — the identical as present in Seeed’s earlier Grove Imaginative and prescient AI v2 Equipment — with two Arm Cortex-M55 cores and an Ethos-U55 neural processing unit (NPU) for on-device synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI and ML) acceleration. That is linked to an Omnivision OV5647 five-megapixel sensor module with a most body price of 1080p30 or 720p60 — although the on-device laptop imaginative and prescient system use an enter of 480×480 at round 10 frames per second relying on mannequin.
For communication, Seeed has added a Wio-E5 module primarily based on STMicro’s STM32WLE5Jc and a Semtech SX126x LoRa transceiver — giving it a devoted Arm Cortex-M4 core to deal with the long-range low-power communication stack. For shorter-range higher-throughput communications, particularly the transmission of captured frames, there’s additionally a XIAO ESP32C3 on-board for Wi-Fi connectivity. Every thing is powered by a D-size Li-SOCl2 battery, which isn’t rechargeable, delivering a claimed 279 days when operating on a five-minute activation interval.
This is not Seeed’s first LoRaWAN-connected edge-AI digital camera system: the SenseCAP A1101 boasts related options, although is restricted to a most 640×480 decision at 60 frames per second. “The SenseCAP A1102 has stronger efficiency in comparison with the SenseCAP A1101,” Seeed claims, “providing higher Imaginative and prescient AI capabilities, extra supported fashions and frameworks, and the power to transmit keyframe photographs through Wi-Fi.”
Along with a mannequin bundling a LoRaWAN transceiver, the SenseCAP A1102 is out there to be used with RS-485 infrastructure (pictured). (📷: Seeed Studio)
Along with the LoRaWAN variant, Seeed has additionally launched a model designed for integration into industrial infrastructure — swapping the LoRaWAN transceiver for RS-485 connectivity. “Merely put,” Violet explains, “it’s the digital camera a part of the SenseCAP A1102, which adopts the Himax AI processor for AI efficiency. You should utilize [the] RS485 Imaginative and prescient AI Digital camera with SenseCAP Sensor Hub 4G Knowledge Logger to transmit the reference outcomes through 4G. In case your current gadgets or programs help MODBUS-RS485, you possibly can join it with this RS485 Imaginative and prescient AI Digital camera to your purposes.”
The digital camera is now accessible to order on the Seeed retailer at $75 earlier than quantity reductions — coming in $4 lower than the sooner SenseCAP A1101; the RS485 variant is even cheaper at simply $39 earlier than quantity reductions.
