One to watch: presence detection via camera

I’mm not affiliated, but can see the value of these in the home :slight_smile:

Press release
Emza Visual Sense, and Himax announce the WiseEye IoT, said to be the industry’s first ultra-low power, always-on, intelligent visual sensor adding human presence awareness for consumer appliances and industrial IoT applications.

DSPG’s ULE and SmartVoice solutions, Emza’s machine vision algorithms, and Himax’s low power CMOS Sensor yield a commercially available sensor capable of detecting, localizing, counting and profiling people.

“Machine learning-based sensors enhance the intelligence and functionality of any device, and our trainable WiseEye IoT solution aims at bringing these capabilities to the vast and largely untapped IoT space in both consumer and industrial domains,” said Yoram Zylberberg, CEO of Emza Visual Sense. “In DSP Group, we found a unique combination of offering that fits any IoT supplier – a low power SoC that can serve as a computing platform for our advanced algorithm and ULE modules for easy integration with IoT systems.”

“Himax CMOS Image Sensor, HM01B0, is the first to be specially designed to benefit the computer vision algorithm and we are excited to be a part of this sophisticated new joint offering from Emza and DSP Group,” commented Amit Mittra, CTO of Himax Imaging. “Low power and high performance are critical to the success of this application. Using our CMOS Image Sensor gives WiseEye the ability to bring computer vision to new applications that have been hard to reach before due to cost, performance, and power constraints.”

What a dream that would be, especially if it was also IP44 rated it better!

Would it need to be used in combination with existing PIR motion sensors or is this an alternative? One thing I like about the PIRs is that they work in the dark.

The sensor is below, doesn’t appear to be IR but it would be a pretty useless system if it didn’t work in the dark!

http://www.himax.com.tw/products/cmos-image-sensor/image-sensors/hm01b0/

I find that PIR sensors are no good for presence detection when the subject is still (eg in the TV room). I’d buy these if they could detect a still person.

There may also be use cases for folks with pets. I’m sure you can train a machine to not detect non humans.

I’m sure the camera tracker will be noisy too - such trackers often loose you when you turn your head by 45 degress… But the point is by combining several noisy sensors and using the bayesian sensor, you could get a reliable presence signal.