AI Cams for my Commercial Kitchen

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I have a commercial kitchen and am looking for AI to cover my my kitchen to find mistakes while making the food. also at my cut table

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For specialized, “out-of-the-box” solutions, here are the leaders to look into:

  • CIZO or AiHACCP: These specialize in food safety and handwashing compliance.
  • Winnow Solutions or Orbisk: These use cameras over trash bins to identify exactly what is being wasted and why, which is the most common “mistake” tracked in kitchens.
  • Dragontail Systems: Often used by large chains to check if a dish matches the “gold standard” before it leaves the kitchen.
  • Viam: This is a great middle-ground platform. It isn’t just a camera; it’s an engineering platform that makes it easy to connect an RTSP camera feed to AI models (like Gemini) to create custom logic for specific kitchen tasks.

For a camera that can do custom AI detections to detect custom mistakes for a niche situation like this, you’ll probably need to do the modern approach where you get a camera with an RTSP stream and run it through a bridge like Lumana or Viam, which can then send frames to the Gemini 1.5 Flash API. You can then give it specific natural language instructions, such as: “Alert me if a chef touches raw meat and then handles vegetables without changing gloves” or “Flag any pizza that goes into the oven without enough pepperoni.” This avoids the need for heavy coding and allows the AI to understand the context of the kitchen.

Instead of paying Gemini to do the analysis, you could actually get your own computer with a good enough GPU and self-host and llm model to do all the analyzing for you at no cost, but this is a little bit more complicated to set up so people usually just pay a cloud llm model to do instead.

If I was going to do this for a commercial kitchen I had, I would definitely use rtsp with my own custom instructions for detections.

Wyze is currently working On releasing rtsp a lot of their cameras, but it’s currently only in beta testing. And for something like a commercial kitchen where you want to look for mistakes, you are probably going to need something with really high resolution or enough cameras to be close to the tables to be able to see mistakes really clearly. If a camera is mounted in the corner of the room looking far away at things people are doing and trying to see if they’re making mistakes with ingredients or something, that’s just not realistic. You will have to put the camera close to where it can see very clearly the mistakes happening in good resolution. And the more cameras you use, the more processing it’s going to take up.

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I am a beta tester. How do i get involved and make my kitchen a test kitchen

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To get custom AI detections working for your specific kitchen needs, you can follow these steps:

  • Step 1: Enable RTSP. Since you are a beta tester, follow the official Wyze RTSP setup instructions to get a direct video stream from your camera.
  • Step 2: Connect to an AI Bridge. Once you have an RTSP link, you can feed it into a program that processes the video for specific mistakes.
    • Viam or Lumana: These are great for “natural language” instructions (e.g., “Tell me if the pizza has enough pepperoni”).
    • Frigate: This is a popular self-hosted option often used with Home Assistant. It is very powerful for detecting objects but might require more setup for “niche” kitchen mistakes.
  • Step 3: Use an AI Guide. Once your RTSP stream is running, you can actually paste your setup details into an AI (like Gemini or ChatGPT) and ask it to write the specific code or logic to flag the mistakes you are looking for.

Remember, for the AI to see mistakes like “wrong ingredients” or “ungloved hands,” the camera needs to be mounted directly over the prep table with high resolution. A camera in the corner of the room usually won’t be clear enough for the AI to be accurate.

I haven’t personally used Viam or Lumana, so I can’t give you step by step instructions with those. I only know other people use them for custom detections like this. You will need to go ask people on their sites or forums or an AI to help give more details. I can only help guide you in the right direction.

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