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Summary of Contents for SmartCow Soter
- Page 1 Soter User's Manual Version 1, March 2023...
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Page 2: Copyright And Legal Statement
It is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by SmartCow. SmartCow acts in good faith and attempts to ensure that content is accurate, complete or reliable, but it does not represent it to be error-free. SmartCow, its subsidiaries, the directors, employees, and agents assume no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracies, omissions, or errors that may appear in the content of this document. -
Page 3: Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements All other products’ names or trademarks are properties of their respective owners. ® ™ ™ ™ • NVIDIA , the NVIDIA logo, Jetson , Jetson Orin , and JetPack are trademarks of the NVIDIA Corporation. ® ® • Arm and Arm v8-M architecture are registered trademarks of Limited. -
Page 4: Declaration Of Conformity
Declaration of conformity This equipment has been tested and verified to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. -
Page 5: Safety Precautions
• All cables and adapters supplied by SmartCow are certified and in accordance with the material safety laws and regulations of the country of sale. Do not use any cables or adapters not supplied by SmartCow to prevent system malfunction or fires. -
Page 6: Warranty And Rma
Additionally, the needed repairing time depends on component acquisition. • Any products returned by SmartCow to other locations besides the customers’ site will bear an extra charge and will be billed to the customer. -
Page 7: Rohs Compliance
In order to meet the RoHS compliant directives, SmartCow has established an engineering and manufacturing task force to implement the introduction of green products. The task force will ensure that we follow the standard SmartCow development procedure and that all the new RoHS components and new manufacturing processes maintain the highest industry quality levels for which SmartCow is renowned. -
Page 8: Table Of Contents
1.5 Rear panel................................ 11 1.6 Carrier board..............................12 1.6.1 Main board............................12 1.6.2 I/O board............................13 Chapter 2: Connection and installation....................15 2.1 Mounting................................15 2.2 Installing an OS image on Soter........................15 2.3 Booting from an external SSD......................... 18 Chapter 3: Specification........................20 viii... -
Page 9: Chapter 1: Introduction
™ Soter is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX module. It features eight PoE ports for Ethernet cameras. Soter is ideal for machine vision applications. SmartCow supplies the hardware as well as integration with the AINVR software. 1.1 Dimensions The following figure shows Soter's dimensions from the front, back, top, and sides. -
Page 10: Front Panel
LTE antenna and coaxial cable 2.5-inch SATA SSD 51-U0000000005 Wi-Fi module Wi-Fi antenna and coaxial cable 1.4 Front panel The following figure shows the key components of Soter's front panel. Number Name Description SSD key lock Lock and unlock the SSD tray. -
Page 11: Rear Panel
USB2.0 USB2.0 port. Power Power LED indicator. indicator 1.5 Rear panel The following figure shows the key components of Soter's rear panel. Number Name Description Audio input Connects to audio input devices, such as microphones. Note that the microphones with a (built-in) amplifier and external power supply are required. -
Page 12: Carrier Board
Connects to the power source. input 1.6 Carrier board The following table shows the dimensions of Soter's main board, power board, and I/O board. Dimensions (W x D x H) Main board: 170 × 179.3 × 35mm / 6.7" × 7.1" × 1.38"... -
Page 13: I/O Board
1.6.2 I/O board The following figures display Soter's I/O board. Introduction... - Page 14 Introduction...
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Page 15: Chapter 2: Connection And Installation
Installing an OS image on Soter • Booting from an external SSD This section describes how to set up Soter and what you need for a successful installation. 2.1 Mounting The following figure demonstrates how to mount an AI mobile NVR onto Soter. - Page 16 Screws on Soter's back. Screws on Soter's sides. This is what the device looks like with its top removed. Connection and installation...
- Page 17 b) Find the jumper to plug in the J12 header (2) and short the jumper. Boot the device into recovery mode after shorting the jumper. Figure 1: J12 header and Micro USB socket. • 1: Micro USB socket • 2: J12 header c) Find a Micro USB to USB-A cable to connect to the Micro USB socket (1).
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Page 18: Booting From An External Ssd
2.3 Booting from an external SSD About this task There are seven main steps for booting Soter from an external SSD. Procedure 1. Boot the device from eMMC and format the external SSD to Ext4 using the Disks Utility application. - Page 19 4. Edit the root path in the config file located in for the changes to take effect. /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf 5. Copy the of the eMMC to the SSD. rootfs sudo ./copy-rootfs-ssd.sh 6. Restart the device for the changes to take effect. 7.
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Page 20: Chapter 3: Specification
Specification These are the key specifications of Soter. NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Xavier NX 16GB 6-core NVIDIA Carmel ® v8.2 64-bit CPU 6MB L2 + 4MB L3 processor NVIDIA Volta architecture ® with 384 NVIDIA CUDA cores and 48 Tensor cores... - Page 21 2 x Mini PCIe (1 x full-size USB2.0, 1 x half-size USB2.0) Expansion Expansion slot GPS/ G-Sensor Onboard G-Sensor, GPS optional Environment Operating temperature –20°C - +65°C Storage temperature –20°C - +85°C Storage humidity 95% @ 40°C (non-condensing) Mechanical Dimension 175.6 ×...
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