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I'm testing an OAK-1-Lite on windows with the DepthAI. Got it working over UVC, it's a great bit of kit...nice job!

I need a device that can be used for CCTV, but protecting a persons PII, so i need to blur faces on the device. I also need to run it without a host, so need a standalone solution, ideally with WiFi. I see that the IOT range is now EOL, so that leaves just the PoE range to play with, but this doesn't have WiFi from what i can see.

Q: Are they any devices current or future that support WiFi, or are you engineering that out?
Q: Would the below goal be possible?

Goal:
1: Flash device so it runs in standalone mode
https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/api/en/latest/tutorials/standalone_mode/

2: Configure IP

3: Load gen2 Face Blur model onto device
https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-experiments/tree/master/gen2-blur-faces

4: Setup RTSP streaming, "burning in" the face blur to the video output feed.
https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-experiments/tree/master/gen2-rtsp-streaming

Additional:
Can the OAK devices handle 2 concurrent streams? 1 clean and 1 dirty (face blur on)?

Over time, we'd add more local models, like face mask etc, but for now, privacy is the main concern to get up and running.

Thanks, Simon

  • erik replied to this.

    Hi simond83 ,
    All of that (and much, much more!) will be possible with the Series 3 of OAK cameras!
    Currently, you would need to couple it with a small SBC, eg. RPi (eg. RPi Zero for lower cost/power consumtion), to stream video over WiFi. And you can already stream 2 concurrent streams🙂 Also feel free to check streaming options here. Thoughts?
    Thanks, Erik

      Thanks @erik! So, the early access modules on your store, they're all Series 2? When do you expect the Series 3 to be available? To confirm;

      -Will the S3 units support WiFi?
      -With S3 units, there's no need for a RPi (i need all in 1 weather sealed), correct? Everything can be manged with the onboard compute??
      -Can I configure 1 unit, then batch update a load more with that saved config?
      -Any future plans for VP9 or AV1 encoding?!

      • erik replied to this.

        Hi simond83 ! Yes, currently only OAK-FFC-6P is series 3, but it's very early access (thus such high price).

        • Yes, some models will support WiFi (TBD which ones)
        • Yep, exactly🙂
        • So this is actually what we are now working on; online platform for device management (RobotHub), so you would be easily able to deploy 10, 100, or 1000+ devices easily🙂 Currently it's in pre-alpha stage, and we plan to release it in Q4 this year.
        • For Series 1/2/3 OAK cameras not possible, as encoding is implemented inside the chip, and it only supports MJPEG/H.264/H.265. So until we use a different chip (maybe Series 4?), we can't (easily) support any other encoding.

        Thanks, Erik

          7 months later

          Just checking in again Erik. Any movement with deciding which S3's will have wifi? Ideally after IP67 with PoE 🙂

          • erik replied to this.

            Hi simond83 ,
            Some devices from S3 will have WiFi, but not all of them (for cost reduction reasons). Quite a few custom solutions already use RVC3 with WiFi modem actually🙂
            Thanks, Erik