Feeding Multiple Cameras into RK3588: MIPI, USB and RTSP Compared

2026年10月4日

“How many cameras can this box take?” depends entirely on the access method. Three routes, one answer each.

Three routes

MIPI CSI: six native lanes feeding the ISP zero-copy — lowest latency and load, first choice for robots and inspection rigs;
USB cameras: UVC plug-and-play; 2-4× 1080p comfortably under USB3;
RTSP streams: unbounded in theory, limited by decode and bandwidth — 16× 720p sub-streams detect fine in practice.

Guidance

Product integrators should count MIPI lanes; field deployments should count Ethernet ports and switch capacity. Our M-series core boards expose multiple MIPI lanes natively for camera-array projects.

Related products: edge-rk3588-4d32-v12a, nas-rk3588. Manuals, firmware and SDKs are in the Hugsun Documentation Center; contact us via the website for volume / ODM programs.