Okdo adds Nvidia Jetson Nano to AI development suite
OKdo, part of Electrocomponents has added the Nvidia Jetson Nano developer kit to its offering. The Jetson Nano Developer Kit has support for desktop Linux and is compatible with many peripherals and accessories as well as ready-to-use projects and tutorials to help makers get started. According to the distributor, the Jetson platform brings artificial intelligence (AI) applications within the reach of makers, inventors, designers and engineers.
The Jetson Nano is an AI development kit is built on the same architecture and software that powers the world’s fastest supercomputers. It also features Nvidia’s JetPack software development kit, which is built on Cuda-X and is a complete AI software stack with accelerated libraries for deep learning, computer vision, computer graphics and multimedia processing to support the Jetson Nano.
The compact yet powerful Jetson Nano platform delivers 472Gflops of computing performance, consuming as little as 5W, making it suitable for object detection, video search, face recognition and heat mapping. It supports high-resolution sensors, can process multiple sensors in parallel and has modern neural networks on each sensor stream. It complements many popular AI frameworks, for developers to integrate into products.
OKdo is focused solely on single board computing (SBC) and internet of things (IoT). Richard Curtin, global senior vice president of technology at OKdo, explained: “Inspiring people to create the next big thing is close to our hearts and we are hugely excited to announce this collaboration with Nvidia to make AI more accessible for engineers globally.”
The Jetson Nano Developer Kit can be used for developing AI-powered robots, drones, intelligent video analytics enabled-devices, AI IoT devices and other autonomous machines.
A key component of OKdo’s customer promise is building an accessible range around software, hardware, services and solutions.
The Jetson Nano Development Kit is available now from OKdo. The company claims to be the first to be focused on meeting the rapidly evolving needs of SBC and IoT customers, from makers and entrepreneurs to industrial designers, educators and resellers.
