LoRa-Powered Energy-Effcient Object Detection Mechanism in Edge Computing Nodes

Abstract

The ongoing accomplishments in the decades-long realization of computer vision have infused new dimensions in various research areas such as smart mobility, smart healthcare, education, finance, and so forth. Research works relating to automated object detection, deep learning-assisted data pipelines, and energy-efficient end-to-end solutions have enabled newer perceptions among researchers, albeit the existence of challenges. This paper proposes an object detection system using energy-efficient Long Range (LoRA) communication media on edge nodes such as Raspberry Pi, Coral DevBoard, and Nvidia Jetson Nano. The proposed approach utilized energy-efficient methods to collaboratively offload object detection-related tasks such as capturing images, training images, and inferring objects across a compendium of computing nodes using LoRA. In addition, this research study has attempted to reveal the inference capabilities of images on three different edge nodes. The proposed work has achieved a power difference of at least 1.2 watts during the inference period of the deep learning models without challenging the prediction accuracy with respect to the base model.