Building surveillance system with WebRTC and YOLO

Re:Building surveillance system with WebRTC and YOLO by simlevesque on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:41PM (#34236864)

> edge computing surveillance has a lot of of potential to help people who don't trust the cloud solutions.

Yes and the tech is now at a point where you can do it with off the shelf hardware and software.

MediaPipe can run old raspberry pis or phones with a good performance.

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Re:Building surveillance system with WebRTC and YOLO by makestuff on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @03:30PM (#34237546)

I am still waiting on someone to come out with a NLU model that can do the basic home automation tasks that most people use alexa/google assistant for. Ex: turn on lights, turn on heat, etc.

I think if you could develop a piece of hardware that could run inference on all of that for under $500 a lot people would ditch the cloud based voice assistants. Especially if it came with home assistant integrations.

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Re:Building surveillance system with WebRTC and YOLO by eternityforest on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:05PM (#34248215)

Is NLU even needed? Seems like just a normal parser generator would be enough, the hard part is all the UI and integrations since there are bazillions of devices, many of which don't have a local API, some of which can't because they're cloudful inherently like Google Calendar.

I think $100 would be about the limit for consumers, if that, but enough of the techies might switch to make it profitable.

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