Jetson Orin Super Nano

wpiman

Getting comfortable
Jul 16, 2018
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massachusetts

I recently got one of these Jetson Super Nanos and I got Ubuntu running on it.

I got codeproject to work in a container, but I think there is an issue with the ARM and CUDA incompatibilities. Wonder if anyone else has manage to get it working.
 
So just an update....

I have been playing with this NVIDIA board once again, and I manage to get the CUDA working for the YoloV5 6.2 models. I added the delivery and package models.

I tested this photo on a truck in my driveway. The first picture is the Jetson Super Nano. Detects the "bus" and that is it. 93ms round trip. Inference 52 ms.

Same photo: older Xeon E3 but with a 3090. Windows on Proxmox. 140ms with 97 ms inference. It also sees a person in the window.

The Orin was $250 while the GPU was $300. I bought a $50 NVME drive for it.

The ALPR works but is doing CPU only. Working on that next. I have this running on Docker so it should just be a pull.

Seems like it is pretty good value for this application.



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Ok, so I don't think anyone else is using this-- and probably doesn't care.. but I had the original 3.3.4 ALPR running with the CPU. I took Mike's Yolo11 ONNX file and with the help of my friend Claude, I managed to get the ALPR working with CUDA acceleration. Seems to be beating my 3090 and appears to be more consistent on Speed.



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Ok, so just adding one more thing here. The board comes in 15W mode when shipped. I just learned you can put it in "SUPER" mode which increases the speed and the wattage to 25 Watts.

I am now running TWICE the speed of the 3090 at 25 watts Max. My ALPR reads are 67 ms round trip 33 ms processing, inference 31 ms.




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thanks for sharing, i was trying to use the jetson nano for ai detection on blueiris and your image worked like a charm.
By any chance do you have one that i can also install the face detection? seems like there are missing dependencies if i try to install it on your image, like python runtime and other stuff