“We’re very excited to associate with Raspberry Pi Ltd. to offer the Raspberry Pi person and developer group with our Aitrios platform, which helps the event of distinctive and numerous options utilizing our AI peripherals, and supply a singular growth expertise,” mentioned Sony President and CEO Semiconductor Options by Terushi Shimitsu.
Raspberry Pi 4 and different units from the corporate give customers PC-like energy in a small type issue. Initially developed as an academic platform for studying robotics, programming, and extra, it has grow to be standard as a manner for coders to create prototypes of IoT (Web of Issues) and different units.
The addition of Sony’s Aitrios might make it much more helpful. Not like cloud AI, it really works straight on the chips (edge computing) to scale back latency, and Sony launched the system for functions comparable to surveillance, safety, and extra. Examples given on the devoted web site embody stock monitoring and holding, buyer counting, license plate recognition and “detailed worker evaluation”. Sony says it maintains privateness by analyzing information solely on-chip and sending solely metadata to the cloud.
Sony is already concerned with Raspberry Pi as a “long-standing and valued strategic associate,” the corporate mentioned. It just lately offered autofocus imaging chips and helped Raspberry Pi arrange UK manufacturing within the firm’s early days.
