[bilsbie]

I had this same idea for monitoring my pool while I’m away. Watching for things in pool, low or high water levels, cloudy water, stray dogs, etc.

There are actually hundreds of applications for this basic idea. Common sense applied to a video feed.

[Edmond]

try Watchman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087499

I am the developer and happy to answer questions.

You can basically setup your own instructions and setup you own observation solutions...you can imagine everything from security to farm operations, the sky's the limit.

[ozzydave]

I want this for pedestrians and cyclists at intersections, and particularly HAWK beacons.

[csmoak]

https://www.roundabout.tech/ tackles this problem

[throwup238]

There’s an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm season about that.

(Just get a fence is the conclusion)

[bronco21016]

I've thought of the same for my lake shore, which is very much not a "just build a fence" situation.

We have 50 ft of lake shore with neighbors on either side. Assuming I fenced my 50 ft there is still a path around said fence on either side.

At the very most I could gate the dock, but again, there are about 8 other docs readily available.

[barbazoo]

Except it’ll fail and a kid will die. Please keep physically blocking off pools.

[pixl97]

Eh, I don't think anyone is saying they are going to stop blocking off pools...

I had a friend that almost lost his kid with a pool with a self closing gate, an object happened to get caught in the latch when someone was leaving the pool and their 2 year old capitalized on this to almost get themselves killed. They had to perform CPR and rush to the hospital.

A backup system that could alert is just another layer of the security onion.

[epolanski]

Are we moving to a world where AI will be fed so much of our cameras for analysis?