I came a cross a project on Hackster.io - Fleet Management with UsefulSensors Person-Sensor that uses a Person-Sensor that is the first product from Pete Warden's new startup, UsefulSensors.
This sensor is part of the Sensor 2.0 initiative that incorporates the ML processing into the sensor rather than using an "external" processor.. Looks like a neat low cost sensor ($10) that would be easy to use due to its tightly constrained use case (face detection and recognition). Besides the ease of implementation, the other benefit is data privacy since image data is not available outside the sensor.
The sensor is a Sparkfun product and it is currently not in stock and I haven't seen any in distribution.
I was wondering if anyone in the community had tried one out. I am a bit concerned that since a feature of the sensor is that it is not updatable, that any bugs or enhancement would mean that you would need to replace the sensor. I guess that at $10 that it might be an acceptable tradeoff. I'd love to try one out to see how well it performs.
