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by ju-st 3233 days ago
Hi!

- What about privacy, is filming workplaces in high resolution ok with customers, their employees, the law and unions?

- Your FAQ states that you are selling the whole package for a yearly fee. Isn't that quite a risk when the customer is using mobile data as connectivity and having devices in the field that can and will fail and have to be replaced? Do you pay then a contractor to replace a single hardware node at your customers location?

- Have you looked at warehouses as customers? I suppose real estate is their #1 cost center :)

1 comments

- One of the benefits of our system - as opposed to other more traditional video-based approaches - is that we never send any raw data off our devices. We have a light-weight neural-net model (about ~10MB) that runs directly on the devices, and only reports back on detected events (so things like “person detected”, “door-entry passed”), etc. This also has a side-benefit in that our devices can operate on low-bandwidth networks (and makes it economical to backhaul detected event-data over a cellular network).

- We include a gateway device with our product, and if anything goes wrong (sensor or gateway goes offline), we cover this as part of our service contract.

- Warehouses are another potential vertical, provided we have access to training data to train up our models. For example, if someone wanted to “count” things like boxes / forklifts / etc, our sensors can be configured to detect them.