E4ds News Online Live Broadcast Survey Results Announcement
Raspberry Pi Usage Status, Popular as High-Performance Device at Affordable Price

Regarding the 'Raspberry Pi', which has become an icon of DIY culture as a mini computer, developers and those with interest in development cited integrated WiFi support as the greatest advantage of Raspberry Pi's latest version (3), while pointing to diverse OS support as the most disappointing aspect.

E4ds News announced the results of a survey conducted during an online real-time live broadcast 'IoT Sensor and Motor Control Practice, 100% Utilization of Raspberry Pi' held on the 26th of last month. Over 200 people registered for the online live broadcast where Jung Jae-jun, representative of the Kernel Research Group, conducted lectures and hands-on training, and 117 people attended the broadcast to watch the online lecture. Approximately 70 people participated in the Raspberry Pi-related survey conducted during the broadcast and answered sincerely about the actual usage of Raspberry Pi.


▲Image recognition demonstration using Raspberry Pi camera at Google I/O held last month.
(Photo: Raspberry Pi Weekly/www.raspberrypi.org/weekly/ news citation)

First, 40% of survey respondents said they use Raspberry Pi because of its affordable price, while the remaining respondents answered that they use Raspberry Pi due to compact high-performance embedded devices (30%), convenience and ease of use (17%), high popularity (7%), and business applicability (6%).

Then, for what purposes are respondents using Raspberry Pi? 51% of respondents said they use it for hobby activities, and a similar number of people are using Raspberry Pi for prototype manufacturing (50%), Internet of Things device development (44%), and educational purposes (43%).


▲What do you think is the most outstanding feature of the most recently released Raspberry Pi 3?

When asked which application developed using Raspberry Pi was considered the most interesting product, respondents showed great interest in ultra-low-cost servers (47%), mobile devices such as robots (41%), surveillance cameras (40%), and educational programs (31%) among the products presented in the survey. In addition, respondents expressed interest in temperature and humidity monitors, power strips, display utilization, game consoles, speakers, IoT devices gateway role, high-performance control and advanced GUI development, among others.

The most outstanding feature of the most recently released Raspberry Pi 3 was cited as integrated 2.4GHz 802.11n WiFi function (40%), followed by 64-bit ARM processor (26%), 1080p video playback at 60 frames per second (14%), integrated Bluetooth 4.1 BLE (14%), and increased number of USB ports to 4 (6%).


▲If there are any disappointing or problematic aspects you think about Raspberry Pi?

In contrast, regarding aspects considered disappointing about Raspberry Pi, diverse OS support (36%) was cited as the greatest concern, and heat temperature (33%), security (24%), development language (21%), storage memory (20%), and mass production (20%) were mentioned as disadvantages.

As for features they would like added in future versions, 24% of respondents selected Windows 10 support for the desktop version, followed by larger RAM capacity (23%), ZigBee wireless technology (21%), USB 3.0 (20%), and next-generation standard graphics support GPU (11%) features.