Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for security cameras
Hi HN. My name is Mohammad Rafiee and I am the founder/CEO of Visual One ( https://www.visualone.tech ) We are building software for security cameras enabling them to recognize specific events. People use security cameras (aka IP cams) for various purposes—to monitor their properties, their kids, their pets, for elderly care, as doorbells, etc. But a shortcoming these cameras have is they rely mainly on motion detection to alert users and that leads to too many false alarms. What led me to work on this problem initially was my personal experience with the IP cameras which I used to watch my dog and also as a doorbell at my house which I rented out on Airbnb sometimes. After trying some of these cameras (Ring, Nest and Wyze), I realized motion alerts are pretty much useless and person detection that some like Nest offer is not broadly useful. For example, for my dog, I only
Why it failed
Hi HN. My name is Mohammad Rafiee and I am the founder/CEO of Visual One ( https://www.visualone.tech ) We are building software for security cameras enabling them to recognize specific events. People use security cameras (aka IP cams) for various purposes—to monit
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- mrafiee
- Ended
- 2020
- Source
- hackernews