AVerMedia QL601 Qualcomm QCS6490 (Dragonwing) Arm SBC and Fanless Edge AI Box PC

Autonomous mobile robots, smart city nodes and retail analytics devices increasingly run their vision models on the device itself, which puts the compute budget and the wireless link in the same small enclosure. The AVerMedia QL601 series answers that with the Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490, offered as a bare board for your own enclosure or as a fanless edge AI box PC. AVerMedia aims the QL601 range at smart city, smart retail and AMR applications, and the board’s I/O is compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 expansion.

Both builds share one board. AVerMedia rates the QCS6490 at 12.5 TOPS, which can run detection or classification models alongside navigation or application code, with 8 GB LPDDR4, 128 GB UFS 2.2 and a microSD slot. Onboard 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E (FCC only) and Bluetooth 5.2 sit beside an M.2 Key B socket and Micro SIM for an optional 4G or 5G module. Two 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera inputs, HDMI 2.0 at 3840 x 2160 and 60 Hz, DisplayPort at 1920 x 1080, a 4-lane MIPI DSI connector, one GbE port, 2x USB 3.0 and 2x USB 2.0 complete the I/O, with a 40-pin header and a PCIe 2.0 FPC connector for expansion.

The QL601 is the single board computer, rated -10 °C to 60 °C on 9-20 V DC through a screw terminal, with an optional heatsink or fan and optional PCIe-to-GbE, PCIe-to-M.2 NVMe and 802.3af PoE PSE boards. The QL601B encloses the same board in a fanless finned chassis rated -10 °C to 55 °C, with a front DC jack, mounting brackets and order codes that add an OOB board, a second RJ45 port or an 802.3af PSE board.

In practice the QL601 series suits AMRs, smart city sensing, retail analytics and signage players that need on-device AI with wireless built in, and the bare board gives OEM teams a route from prototype to their own housing that can often keep the same software image. Operating systems are Qualcomm Linux 1.3, Ubuntu 20.04, Windows 11 IoT and Android 13, and AVerMedia lists CE, FCC, KC and VCCI marks and RoHS. For lighter workloads, the AVerMedia QL501 series uses the QCS5430 at around 3.5 TOPS with 4 GB of memory in the same two build styles.