AIS-1000 AI Surveillance Station - A $3,640 NDAA and TAA-compliant AI box based on Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo-13L - CNX Software

If you feel like a cheapskate when purchasing a Raspberry Pi 5 16GB for only $305, there’s now a solution to avoid embarrassment. Meet the $3,640 AIS-1000 AI Surveillance Station, pairing a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo-13L AI accelerator and a 1TB NVMe SSD, all housed in a metal enclosure.Jokes aside, the device from Planet Technology is real, and users mostly pay for NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) and TAA (Trade Agreements Act) compliance for use in AI-enhanced surveillance applications for government, critical infrastructure, or other high-security applications.Planet AIS-1000 hardware specifications:

SBC – Raspberry Pi 5 (only advertised features listed)

SoC – Broadcom BCM2712

CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor @ 2.4 GHz

GPU – VideoCore VII GPU @ 800 MHz with support for OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2, 4Kp60 HEVC decoder