Sentinel

Sentinel

Old phones as AI vision monitors

Description

An old phone in a drawer has a decent camera, while smart cameras cost money. Sentinel is a LAN-based AI monitoring framework that uses smartphones as cameras, sending frames to vision models and outputting structured events.

It uses a distributed real-time design for data collection and analysis, and was featured in ruanyf's weekly.

Features



Reuse phones:Phones as IP cameras.

AI vision:Events recognized.

Structured output:Data for analysis.

LAN:Stays local.