That's fair, I'm just a little confused because the BeagleBone AI board isn't even trying to compete with the <$100 boards. I know it's meant for very specific

That's fair, I'm just a little confused because the BeagleBone AI board isn't even trying to compete with the <$100 boards. I know it's meant for very specific industrial uses, but depending on your models and how you have it setup, 1GB of ram isn't very much. If these are meant to be nodes in a larger system I guess that makes a little more sense, but if they're meant to be more autonomous that 1GB is going to be a real limitation for certain applications.