Google announced the launch of a platform called Coral (beta) on March 6th, US time, allowing everyone to build IoT terminal devices with local AI, and at the same time announced five hardware devices.
The so-called "local AI" or "On-device AI" means that AI processing is performed on local devices (edge devices) without going through the cloud. Coral platform provides a complete local AI tool , Allowing developers to transform ideas from prototypes into products. It includes hardware modules, software tools and content, allowing developers to create, train and execute local edge device neural networks. The Coral platform also supports Google's launch of the official artificial intelligence framework TensorFlow Lite today.
Coral Dev Board with Edge TPU machine learning acceleration
Google also announced five Corel platform devices, which are a single-board computer "Coral Dev Board", a USB accelerator that supports Raspberry Pi or Debian Linux computers, a 5-megapixel lens module corresponding to Dev Board, and a system module (SoM) for Dev Board. , And PCI-E accelerator that easily integrates the machine learning accelerator Edge TPU with the existing computer system.
Supports USB accelerator of Raspberry Pi or Debian Linux computer, also has Edge TPU built-in
The lens module (left) can cooperate with Coral Dev Board for image recognition
System module with Edge TPU
Among them, the Coral Dev Board is like a Raspberry Pi optimized for local AI, with a replaceable SoM system module equipped with an Edge TPU machine learning accelerator. It uses an OS called Mendel Linux and supports the TensorFlow Lite framework. In terms of programming language, only Python is currently supported, but C++ will be added in the future. The price is US$149.99 (approximately HK$1,177).
Edge TPU module specifications
Floor specifications
A few days ago, Gravitylink Mall announced that it has become the exclusive authorized distributor of Google AIY series products in Hong Kong. I also saw publicity about the upcoming launch of Edge TPU products on their website. I believe that Coral platform products will be available in Hong Kong soon?
The Gravitylink mall, which has recently announced that it has become the exclusive authorized distributor of Google AIY products in Hong Kong, also promoted the upcoming launch of Edge TPU products.
Gravitylink Mall: https://store.gravitylink.com
Coral (beta) platform: https://coral.withgoogle.com