I need to find out how many sensor data channels I can use with Reality AI tools software. Is there a hard limit on the number of channels available for me to use?
Hi Steve, thank you for the question.
Reality AI Tools software does not contain a hard limit on the number of sensor data channels. Practically speaking though, the computing constraints of your target environment will put an effective limit on the number of channels you employ – RAM in particular. The RAM requirements of a machine learning model are closely related to the size of the input buffer required to hold a frame of sensor data, and the size of the buffer is proportional to the number of channels x the sample rate x the length of the window. The more sensor data channels, the bigger the window buffer, and bigger window buffers require more RAM to manipulate mathematically.
Reality AI Tools software can help you explore the RAM implications of different choices of input channels, window length and sample rate to optimize the RAM requirements of any machine learning models you create.