Amazon presents ‘ai camera’ with Intel Atom processor and Ubuntu

Amazon has presented a $250 camera for developers. The camera has, among other things, object recognition and other functions on board to let developers get started with artificial intelligence. Amazon’s cloud service AWS will sell the cameras.

The $250 camera has an unnamed 4-megapixel sensor, Amazon claims. The camera can record videos in 1080p resolution. The camera runs on an Intel Atom processor that has 100 gflops of computing power, according to Amazon ten times more than it needs. According to the specs page, the camera has 8GB of RAM and an expandable storage with a capacity of 16GB.

The software is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with the AWS GreenGrass core. The camera has dual-band WiFi and has a microSD slot, micro HDMI connection, audio port and two USB 2.0 ports. The camera measures 168x94x47mm and weighs 297 grams.

Amazon AWS built the camera for developers who want to get started with artificial intelligence. The software has built-in object recognition and recognizes, among other things, pets, everyday objects, movements and the software can be trained to recognize more objects.

DeepLens is part of a set of services from AWS to build artificial intelligence into its cloud service. The camera has integration with AWS Kinesis Video Streams, AWS IoT, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB and Amazon S3. DeepLens is currently only available in the US and will be available from April 14 next year for $249.