Jetson-based hyperspectral and remote sensing data acquisition system
Client project: project fee $100,000. For a university agricultural remote sensing program: a rugged field terminal built around NVIDIA Jetson, with our own carrier board, system baseboard and power and interface boards, that brings a hyperspectral camera and other sensors into one acquisition system for crop observation, vegetation analysis and research datasets. After the engineering prototype, the same build went into an 80-unit follow-on run.
- Client type: University agricultural research team (not named)
- Units: Engineering prototype, then 80 units of follow-on production
- Project fee: $100,000
- Stage: Client project; production priced separately
Overview and tech stack
- Project type
- Large robots and complex electromechanical systems
- Computing
- NVIDIA Jetson on a custom carrier board, Jetson/Linux environment
- Electronics
- Custom system baseboard, power-management board and peripheral interface boards
- Sensors
- Hyperspectral camera plus other field sensors, high-speed data connections
- Power
- System power architecture, module supplies, protection and internal distribution
- Mechanical
- Rugged enclosure, internal retention, cooling structure and service access
Main challenges
- Several sensors share signal and power distribution inside a tight enclosure
- High-speed connections, heat and field reliability decided where every interface sits
- Internal mounting and wiring had to stay serviceable and repeatable for batch assembly
What we built
- Requirements and hardware architecture for sensing, computing and field use
- Jetson carrier board, system baseboard, interface boards and power circuits
- Hyperspectral camera and sensor integration: electrical, data and mounting
- Enclosure, internal mounting and cooling
- Jetson/Linux bring-up and the acquisition workflow
- Prototype build: PCBs, machined parts, debugging and interface tests
- BOM and assembly documents for the 80-unit follow-on run
Project figures
- Project fee
- USD 100,000 (one-time system engineering)
- Follow-on production
- 80 units, priced separately
- Included
- electronics and PCBs; mechanical design; software and firmware integration; engineering prototypes and testing
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