AAEON UP Squared Grove IoT Development Kit

The UP Squared Grove IoT Development Kit, from AAEON, has been designed as a modular and ready‐to‐use toolset optimised for simplicity. The kit combines a custom Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system and end-to-end tools to reduce development time and offer a high-performance development platform for computer vision, machine learning and data aggregation applications.

The development kit combines an AAEON UP Squared board and the Seeed Studio Grove prototyping system with the Arduino Create integrated online platform. The AAEON UP Squared is a high-performance x86 board based on a 2.4 GHz Intel Celeron N3350 system-on-chip (SoC) for fast CPU and graphics capabilities. The board features an Intel MAX 10 FPGA with 2000 logic elements (LE), 8 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 32 GB of eMMC storage, plus a robust offering of input/output (IO) expansion options.

The Seeed Grove prototyping system is a collection of single-function modules with standardised connectors to simplify building electronic circuits without solder or breadboards. The included Grove sensors kit contains a shield to connect to the board, an LCD display, a rotary angle sensor, a light sensor, a button, an LED, a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor. With a clear upgrade path to other Grove sensors, the kit can be deployed to production with additional connectivity components and an industrial-grade chassis.

The product includes support from Arduino Create, a web-based platform that includes an up-to-date online Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) with a web editor and collaboration tools. It includes examples specifically built for the kit, as well as libraries such as OpenCV and the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL).

The kit is suitable for prototyping a variety of IoT applications, including robotics, drones, home and industrial automation, media and entertainment, and intelligent automobiles.