Seeed Studio & NVIDIA: Driving Industry 4.0 with Edge AI

Malamute: Revolutionizing Industrial Communication

Malamute's mission is to enable efficient communication in the toughest environments. Founded in 2020, the Malamute team combined the industrial communication world with the power of AI to create the next generation of communication workflow. Malamute partners with industry leaders to bring human-centric assisted reality to the front lines.

Industry: Industry 4.0

Application: Industrial Communications

Edge Device Used: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kit, reServer J5014

Software: RIVA SDK

NLP Simplifies Industrial Communications and Improves Manufacturing Productivity

Challenge: Workers often leave stations to communicate, hindering productivity. Tedious data input solutions also impede job completion.

Solution: Malamute utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) and spatial computing to enhance workplace productivity and process traceability. Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin and AGX Xavier, and working with NVIDIA Riva, its AI-layered audio communication network provides industrial workers with timely data. This system improves overall equipment efficiency by allowing employees to record voice messages regarding operational situations, sent to the intended audience, offering a more efficient alternative to traditional communication methods.

Result: Minimizes worker travel for communications, maximizes worker productivity, and improves workplace efficiency.

Edge Impulse: Accelerating Edge AI Development

Edge Impulse is a leading development platform for machine learning on edge devices, offering a free and trusted environment for developers and enterprises. It simplifies ML development and accelerates solution deployment through low-code to advanced integrations with expert support.

Application: Embedded Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Industry: Industry 4.0, Manufacturing, Retail

Supported Hardware: Seeed's NVIDIA compatible carrier boards and devices, Official NVIDIA dev kits.

Build ML Pipelines for Edge Applications

Edge Impulse enables users to leverage NVIDIA Jetson platforms for embedded machine learning applications requiring high performance. It offers an easy-to-use pipeline for deploying audio, image classification, and object detection applications at the edge without cloud dependencies. It also streamlines the acquisition of critical environmental sensor data for edge sensor fusion.

Deploy Hard Hat Detection for Workplace Safety

Edge Impulse facilitates an end-to-end machine learning workflow, from data upload and acquisition to model training and validation. It enables real-time detection for hard hat compliance and alerts, covering other PPE like gloves and masks. Custom model training for full PPE detection is also supported.

Troylabs: AI-Powered Solutions for Industry

Troylabs provides expert engineering and advisory services focused on impactful AI solutions. Their services include Machine Learning consulting, Predictive Analytics, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.

Industry: Industry 4.0

Application: Machine Learning

Device Support: reComputer J2011/J2022 powered by NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.

Detecting Safety Helmets in Real-time

Troylabs leverages Seeed's reComputer edge devices with NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX to develop a computer vision analytics solution for real-time safety helmet detection in Industry 4.0 environments. Using YOLOv5 and NVIDIA DeepStream SDK, they achieved significantly improved inference times (0.012 seconds per image, 82.8 FPS) compared to standard implementations.

reComputer Series for Jetson

Hand-size Edge AI Devices built with NVIDIA Advanced AI Embedded Systems. These devices offer an official dev kit alternative with pre-installed Jetpack, supporting Jetson Nano, Xavier NX, and Orin NX modules. They are designed as compact edge computers with rich extension modules, industrial peripherals, and thermal management, enabling users to accelerate and scale next-gen AI products.

Key Features: Edge AI box fits anywhere, embedded Jetson Module, pre-installed software for click-to-deploy, rich set of I/Os, stackable and expandable.

Versions Available: reComputer J1010 (Jetson Nano), reComputer J1020 (Jetson Nano), reComputer J2011 (Jetson Xavier NX), reComputer J2012 (Jetson Xavier NX 16GB), reComputer J2021 (Upcoming New Version), and upcoming models for Orin NX (J4011, J4012).

Optional Accessories: NVMe SSDs (128GB, 256GB, 512GB).

Certifications: CE, FC, ROHS, REACH (as applicable).

reServer for Jetson

An inference center for the edge, designed for Jetson Xavier NX, Orin NX, and AGX Orin platforms. The reServer offers portable Edge AI capabilities with up to 275 TOPS AI performance. It features a vapor chamber heatsink for enhanced thermal management (AGX Orin only) and rapid network access (2.5GbE/10GbE).

Key Features: Hybrid connectivity (4G, 5G, LoRa, BLE, WiFi), supports NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, pre-installed Jetpack, built-in storage for multiple concurrent AI applications, and rich I/Os for AIoT (USB 3.2, HDMI, DP ports).

Models: reServer J2032 (Xavier NX 16GB Module), reServer J5014 (Jetson AGX Orin 64GB Module).

Certifications: CE, FC, ROHS, UKCA, REACH (as applicable).