This Ready Solution is agnostic with regard to the camera model. Cameras that support H.264 or H.265 video compression are required, and the video streams from the cameras are decompressed/decoded in the T4 GPUs for further processing and inference. Dell Technologies recommends cameras that require Power over Ethernet (PoE) for ease of consistent deployment across all retail branches. Dell EMC PowerSwitch N3000 series or S3100 series switches can be used to power the camera and provide network connectivity.

The following table lists the required camera specifications:

Table 3.              Required camera specification

Note:  A thermal camera is required to use the thermal module. Thermal cameras typically have both optical and thermal sensors, which are required for the thermal module.

We used Axis P-series network cameras and a Mobotix M16B thermographic camera in the Dell AI Innovation Lab.