raspberry pi update - encourage your iot
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Raspberry Pi Update- Encourage your IoT
Masafumi OhtaJapanese Raspberry Pi Users Group
WHO AM I- Now leading Raspberry Pi Users Group,A
Japanese Raspberry Pi Community here in Japan.
- Volunteer for Raspberry Pi Foundation - one of the moderator for official Raspberry Pi Forum helping the Foundation.
– Someone asking me..
‘Raspberry Pi is useful for my business?’
SURE IT IS!
• But please consider ‘Raspberry Pi Foundation’ is NPO for children IT education.
• And consider Raspberry Pi itself is not so stronger than any other Embedded board,which is for factory automation or etc..
• but it is very stronger than any other similar one
ANOTHER ASPECT
• Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd is trading subsidiary for their business function.
• Raspberry Pi Foundation continues to going on their charity projects for the children education as NPO.
COMPUTE MODULE• Raspberry Pi Compute module is DIMM-sized tiny
PC for embedded computing.
• There are some partners which has the products including Compute Module.
• Camera,Audio equipments and etc..
CUSTOM PI by Element 14
• Custom Pi is based on Raspberry PI x customized by your order
• Considering the layout as possible
• Remove/Add some devices
• 5000 units/minimum order quantity (MOQ)
ON THE OTHER HAND..• In the software aspect is Raspberry Pi useful?
• Is it for Electric DIY kits for the GEEK?
• Blinking LED,Programable Robots..etc
• What we should use Raspberry Pi for business?
• Any solutions/thoughts/ideas for IoT?
TRY AS AUDIO RENDERER
• Almost audio renderer and Renderer OS works fine on Raspberry Pi
• Now latest Raspbian supports many USB-DAC devices with not-recompiling-kernel
• be careful to noise..often makes annoyed.
CASE:RYUKYU BANK
• Ryukyu Bank had used ‘Cable Broadcastings’ for their branch bank music streaming system.
• Now they have replaced it with Raspberry Pi-based streaming systems and broadcast the musics from their central information center to all the branches and plans to broadcast original music..etc
ROBOTS
• ROBOTS is hobby using Raspberry Pi
• RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Programable Robot work fine with Raspberry Pi and Eben loves it.
• Lego Mindstorm also works with Raspberry Pi
• Using it for the business is a few - but good.
CASE:FUTUREAGRI
• Kabaya-san has dropped out a biggest manufacturer company to decide the farmer..
• but it is very hard work for him to do that and feel very difficult to employ someone for his help so he decided using the robot.
• He says ‘Raspberry Pi is very cheap and powerful!’
TINY BUSINESS USE
• Tiny business use is for the beginner getting used the business solution and learning how it works.
• Almost is like ‘hobby’ though you can try those solutions and have the experience ‘crash and build’ again and again with the cheap Raspberry Pi
• Sure,almost should be used on ‘x86’ systems ;)
CASE:PIZERO CLUSTER
• Koichi Nakamuka,CEO of Idein made Raspberry Pi Zero Cluster unit for ‘tiny’ HPC.
• Eben is very interested in such a very small cluster and gave the zeros to him fulfill PiZeros on his units.
AS A SERVER
• Raspberry Pi 3 works great as internet server.
• mail,web,dns..
• storages
• Almost has the packages for Raspberry Pi that works fine.
CASE:RASPBERRY PI SITE• Raspberry Pi website system was blogged in this april
fool.
• We thought it was ‘fool’ but NOT.
• hosted by mythic-beasts.com a UK cloud carrer.
• details: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/serving-raspberry-pi-3-launch-raspberry-pi-3/
MINIO CLOUD STORAGE• Minio is S3-compatible storage that can work on
Raspberry Pi.
• it is recommended to work on Raspberry Pi 2 or upper.
• Very easy to install the server.
• run the script and check how to upload the file.
NETWORK DEVICES• There are many 3G/LTE dongle/Wifi boards support
Raspberry Pi
• there are some solutions using Raspberry Pis as a network devices using mobile network.
• Live camera ( with Raspberry Pi Cameras)
• You can buy some solution kit from those vendors.
CASE:SORACOM AIR
• Soracom is Japanese IoT-specific mobile career using the programable/UI control management system.they planing to expand their business over 130 countries.
• it can suspend/resume on the cloud
• its speeds can control on the cloud
LATEST UPDATES
HOW ABOUT PIZERO• Pi Zero is still tightly supplied 1unit/person/order
each vendors.ton of demands makes crazy..
• There are 4 distributors for PiZero planing to add more resellers when ‘claiming down’..
• Adafruits,Pimoroni,PiHut and Microcenter.
• Note it is NOT by Element14 and RS components
ROLLING UPDATES• Raspberry Pi is very old - ARM11-based.
• The foundation announces they will produce old raspberry pi 1 for a while for the education customers.
• a few apps only work on RPi 1
• but some has already updated - Camera,RPi A+
UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(1)• Xenon Death Flash fixing - but it could works
xenon closing the devices.
• Pi 3 Compute module/Pi 3 model A+ - New! but haven’t released - CM already finished testing.
UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(2)
• RPi 3 probably needs to have a heatsink for its CPU
• it is over 85 degrees not having it.
• 5/3A AC is needed but almost works 5/2-2.5A
• fulfilled by USB dongles…
UPDATE SOFTWARE
• Raspbian still release 32bit - it is only 30% higher than RPi 2 it is expected and not so faster using 64 bit
• ‘Down-compatible’ is the first priority.
• Engineers at the foundation they don’t plan 64bit because its speeds are not so improved.
CONCLUSION
• Raspberry Pi is useful for your business.
• wondering AGL is supported (but it is for developers)
• might be better factory/business ‘bearable’ boards.
• There are some good case with tiny computing!
