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Congrats on launching. Some really fascinating ideas. Although I suspect my biggest concern would be, the consumer electronics space is not fun to be in. I'm c
by kevin_nisbet 7y ago
Congrats on launching. Some really fascinating ideas. Although I suspect my biggest concern would be, the consumer electronics space is not fun to be in.
I'm curious if you've considered targeting small business at all, that maybe had enough flexibility that consumers could adopt. I'm a board member of my condo corporation (HOA), and our staff can struggle quite alot with scrubbing through security camera footage to find events, mainly damage to the property. So having a system that can say load all the video of a vehicle passing through a garage door for the past two days would save a ton of time. Of the feature you've described, on when something goes missing or damage appears to the build would save lots of time.
Similar to alot of the sentiment in this post, because its monitoring of public spaces, I likely wouldn't accept a cloud based solution. It's just difficult to vet that companies are doing the right things and have a good security posture, despite privacy policies. Simple cloud storage like an S3 bucket would probably be fine.
Anyways, best of luck on the launch.
- mrafiee 7y agoThanks for the feedback. We have been looking into some SMB applications including property management. Would love to know more details about your use case if you are open to an offline discussion. We are actually storing on S3 (and only store short clips for user's events of interest in the cloud.) Thank you!
- kevin_nisbet 7y agoSure, my keybase contact info is in my profile. I'm also @kevin in the Kubernetes and CNCF slack workspaces.
- mrafiee 7y agoGreat. I will follow up with you. Thanks!
- bradknowles 7y agoThere are existing commercial solutions that can address the HoA use case you describe here. Lots of smarts in the local NVR device on the network, or in the admin station that connects to the NVR device — follow the person in the yellow jacket, ALPR, and so on. Then you can easily add off-site storage, or whatever. The problem is that these commercial solutions are expensive. You could try to build your own with OpenCV and other tools, but that’s a really hard task if you’re not also selling for the same kind of money.
- davidmneedham 7y agoAn example commercial solution would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0BLx9eKAyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0BLx9eKAyk . Powerful and expensive. Most businesses do not want video uploaded to the cloud, but some are receptive to it, and the large business analytic vendors are developing products for the cloud.
- mrafiee 7y agoThanks for sharing.