Faster SBC than Raspberry Pi?

msze

Hi all - I have a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB RAM and I'm running an Oak-D Lite. I've used the Raspberry Pi OS images from Luxonis and it made it easy to get up and running.

As there are a lot of other SBC's on the market now, I was wondering if anyone has used a faster one and could recommend it? Not looking for anything too powerful that requires a wall-plug (hope I'm not too optimistic) and can run off a power-bank or this (https://coreswx.com/shop/pbe-lite/) which is 14.7vdc, 3.3Ah.

My pipeline has a number of components as I'm doing face detection then facial feature detection and I have a number of visual outputs in my application. I've attached the visual of the pipeline running on my desktop. For which I get ~10fps. On the Raspberry Pi I think it's more like 3-4fps.

Thanks!

erik

Hi msze ,
Besides RPi, Jetson devices are also quite popular as an embedded host computers. One option would be to also reduce resolutions/encode streams that you are streaming to RPi, so it doesn't need to handle as much data. Thoughts?

msze

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the suggestion of the Jetson - have you (or anyone else) tried the new Jetson Orin Nano? If it worked on the old Jetson Nano I guess it should work on the new one?

You make a good point about reducing the resolutions on the streams. I'll try and reduce it.

erik

Hi msze ,
It should work on the newer Jetson as well, I see no reason why it shouldn't, but we haven't tried it ourselves.

msze

Great, thanks Erik, I'm considering getting one and if I do I'll post back on how I go with it.