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by gbraad 6 hours ago
Cameras do not actively protect people or livestock, it just monitors and retroactively actions are taken. I prefer the German method where they make the wolves fear people.

https://youtu.be/hmVowVaWUms

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Yes. Old camera do that.

The systems I developed are. It based on microcontrollers. But secure boot Linux systems. They detect wolves within 2 seconds on pi based version, sub second on the jetson based ones.

Then websocket connected subscribers speak a loud alert to wake the person up and auto load the camera view over the permanently up VPN.

The person monitoring can then verify on how ever many cameras are connected and illicit many different kinds of responses.

This is not a standard wild camera setup. I’m using high resolution 640x512 res thermal modules to see night and day.

Our system is already being used in Greenland for polar bears and has detected bears three times now from a long distance and the safety group were able to chase it away. There it’s monitoring 22 cameras with a single jetson.

And indeed, the idea is very rapid detection and validation and then potentially remote active response. It has all the necessary controls.