At the 2025 World Mobile Communication Conference (MWC), Quectel officially launched its QuecPi Alpha smart ecosystem development board for the global market.
The development board, built on the Qualcomm Snapdragon™ QCS6490 processor, is compatible with multiple open-source operating systems. It boasts high performance, rich multimedia capabilities, high integration, a variety of interfaces, low power consumption, broad applicability, and low development costs.
As an open-source innovation product focused on ecosystem building, the QuecPi Alpha aims to provide an efficient, flexible innovation platform to accelerate breakthroughs in edge-side intelligent technology and promote the rapid implementation of related applications.
Quectel’s Chief Operating Officer Zhang Dong said, “We are always committed to providing developers and enterprise users with efficient, flexible innovation platforms. The launch of QuecPi Alpha is a significant breakthrough for Quectel in the edge computing and open-source ecosystem fields. We believe this product will bring more possibilities to the AIoT industry, driving the widespread application of smart technologies globally.”
Open-Source, Efficient, Flexible
QuecPi Alpha is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon QCS6490 processor, featuring an 8-core CPU, 8GB/4GB LPDDR4X RAM, and up to 12 TOPS of AI computing power. It supports open-source operating systems like Linux and Ubuntu and is equipped with Qualcomm® Adreno™ 642L/643 GPU, showing outstanding flexibility and efficiency in processing AI tasks such as image and video data.
Additionally, QuecPi Alpha supports dual-display functionality, compatible with both DisplayPort (DP) interfaces and LCM (liquid crystal module), or DP and HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface). This feature provides developers with abundant display options, expanding application scenarios and enabling QuecPi Alpha to meet the high-speed, multimedia, and AI computing requirements in industrial and consumer applications.
Wide Application in AIoT Scenarios
With its powerful AI capabilities and high flexibility, QuecPi Alpha can meet the diversified needs of object recognition, image recognition, and other functions in numerous AIoT application scenarios, even in complex environments, providing reliable technical support for customers.
For example, in intelligent transportation and smart security, QuecPi Alpha can quickly and accurately identify and label vehicles, license plates, pedestrians, and other objects in complex scenarios, demonstrating its exceptional performance in edge computing and low-latency processing. This ability significantly enhances data transmission and processing efficiency, providing strong support for real-time decision-making in areas like traffic management.
QuecPi Alpha also integrates Wi-Fi 2.4 & 5G, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, and Bluetooth 5.0 technology, with a Type-C power interface, external eMMC and SSD support, and a variety of peripheral interfaces, including PCIe, USB 3.1 Type-C, (U)SIM, UART, GPIO, MIPI camera interface, HDMI output, and gigabit Ethernet interface.
These features cater to developers and intelligent terminal manufacturers’ diverse development needs, covering AIoT industry applications like AI edge computing, industrial robots, service/companion/education/entertainment robots, industrial control, multimedia terminals, digital signage, and smart homes.
Building the Open-Source Ecosystem
In addition to excelling in traditional industrial fields, QuecPi Alpha also offers numerous impressive application scenarios in the open-source ecosystem, reshaping our lives with cutting-edge technology.
Developers in the digital lifestyle field can use QuecPi Alpha to build personalized home media centers, offering an intelligent audio-visual entertainment experience.
Smart security companies can use QuecPi Alpha’s open-source image recognition algorithm library to achieve accurate identification and tracking of people and vehicles and intelligently analyze abnormal behaviors like intrusions and loitering, ensuring safety.
Research teams can develop on the QuecPi Alpha development board, leveraging open-source deep learning frameworks and algorithm libraries to accelerate research and explore the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence.
To further accelerate customer product launch, Quectel provides comprehensive, multi-level software customization services and value-added services, including system customization and optimization, industry function customization, full-spectrum multimedia services, hardware and device debugging, algorithm development, and product certification assistance.
It is noteworthy that the QuecPi Alpha smart ecosystem development board offers a long lifecycle, with stable supply guaranteed until 2036, meeting the needs of industrial and consumer smart devices for longevity and high reliability.
Currently, the development board is in the engineering sample stage, and developers worldwide can purchase it through 4gltemall.com store and other e-commerce channels for product development and testing. Quectel also provides technical support to developers purchasing engineering samples, assisting them with any issues encountered during product development.