Sorry if this question has been asked before, though I didn’t see it…
I understand that the new Cam V3 Pro’s built-in Edge AI offers on-board person detection - i.e. it’s not necessary for recorded videos to have to be uploaded to the cloud for person detection. That’s great news. But my question: does this mean that if a user is interested only in person detection (and not any other form of Smart Detection), that technically he/she does NOT have to subscribe to the Cam Plus subscription service? Just curious.
As I understand it from the discussions I have read, the on board Edge AI is not as robust as the server AI due to the processing limitations of the chip. It will operate independently, but at a lower degree of accuracy.
It was designed and implemented mainly as a preliminary detection to speed up the notification process and accuracy once it was sent to the server for the CamPlus AI to interrogate.
Without a CamPlus subscription, you will get Person Detection AI events from the on board Edge AI, but you will not get the advantage of the Server AI because there won’t be any video uploaded, only a snapshot with a 5 minute cooldown.
Thanks. This helps. Given this, I feel more comfortable sticking with my basic Cam V3 and continuing to subscribe to Cam Plus. I’m satisfied with its resolution and the speed of Wyze’s server-based image recognition.
Blockquote won’t get the advantage of the server AI because of video AI?
I would not guess video is used on the server AI, probably stills are processed just like the AI on the camera. I would guess the server AI is 64 bit and the cam is 32 bit. I would not guess the server to be faster because of the communication delay. The WEB PAGE says 8 TOPS. That is very very fast even at 8 bit.
I don’t know but I would hope new classification models are sent to the camera when “faces” are added. I could test that if I knew someone…
I guess audio within the video could be server only. But V3 pro lists “barking”.
If the V3 Pro is not sending video to cloud, then this is probably simply an onsite/offsite feature (less wifi traffic and WiFi 6).
I’m going to test this since I have V3 and V3 pro at the same spot.
The V3 Pro doesn’t mention edge AI on the box. I wish it did. It does “not mention” cloud storage on the box.