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The new AI port looks promising.

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UniFi AI Port - Tech Specs

AI appliance that enhances any UniFi or third-party camera with AI detection, classification, and recognition capabilities.
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If it's not prohibitively expensive it will be a great way of finally getting better quality and more affordable 3rd party cameras working will Unifi protect and use their native alerts system.

The new 4k cam they announced only has a 1/1.8" sensor, which is smaller than the 1/1.2" some of the 4k Hikvision ones and what I've been deploying for a couple of years now.

If the AI port not too expensive it could mean not needing Blue Iris and a dedicated server anymore.

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Surely for $200 for the "AI Port" thing you'd just replace the camera unless what you had already was something special, and avoid having all these weird devices tucked behind ceilings.
 
Caged said:
Surely for $200 for the "AI Port" thing you'd just replace the camera unless what you had already was something special, and avoid having all these weird devices tucked behind ceilings.
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AI is next big thing to generate growth... Just buy OK ;-)
 
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Caged said:
Surely for $200 for the "AI Port" thing you'd just replace the camera unless what you had already was something special, and avoid having all these weird devices tucked behind ceilings.
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Is that what it's going to cost?!

I couldn't find a price, if so, that's insane.

I figured maybe $50 a pop to enhance the old cameras. Maybe up to $100 max. How disappointing.
 
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Surely for $200 for the "AI Port" thing you'd just replace the camera unless what you had already was something special, and avoid having all these weird devices tucked behind ceilings.
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The devices you'd just plug into the cable before they enter your switch, doesn't need to be in the ceiling.
 
Marginally better, though now you have loads of these things hanging out your switch. The design is clearly intended to not go in the comms room or they'd have them as cards in a rack chassis like you can do with media converters. Just a strange choice really.
 
Not great for density is it. I think they're working with the limitations of their existing product lineup and would expect the AI accelerator thing to be a slot in option on their NVRs at some point, or for a 1U device with a lot of them in to connect directly to the NVR via a 10/25Gb interface.
 
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