Edge agent scenario (multiple decentralized locations)

[jakubsuchybio]

Edge agent scenario (multiple decentralized locations)

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[bazylhorsey]

My theoretical strategy when I start this will be:

1. Implement a master-slave approach for MQTT networks.
2. Use a VPN tunnel (right now tailscale) to expose MQTT as well as the API
3. Create a custom service that stores all the data and make an API or frontend to abstract findings on a dashboard.

End result:
Every system runs independently, but you can harvest data via MQTT to create a central dashboard.

Example stack:
AWS IoT running mqtt-triggered lambda's that save data to DynamoDB, with API Gateway to get data (optional with S3 CDN for static frontend connected to said API)

Alternatvies:

1. If you set up tailscale magicDNS, its dead simple to switch back and forth (http://frigate-home:5000); however, if you are doing high level analysis across everyone you'll want data homogenized.

2. Each computer could be set up with only go2rtc and then use a VPN to connect to your RTSP's. Finally, one single computer runs Frigate. Remote RTSP's are going to be prone to bandwidth constraints, and often results in corrupted (blurred/streaked) streams.

My first implementation is probably going to be a Grafana status and observation app deployed on cloud and connected to all frigate nodes, which I can share documentation on.

[jakubsuchybio]

Hmm, interesting.
Ad theoretical strategy 3 - Here I thought there could be a frigate instance, but it has completely different sets of functionality than getting data from MQTT. But when setup with HomeAssistant, I don't know if the HA can aggregate the stored data from MQTT 🤔

Ad alternative 2 - This is basically what I'm doing now, I have centralized frigate instance and via VPN have the RTSP over the internet, but the quality is sometimes bad because of the bandwidth as you say. That is why I'm thinking about those self-contained edge frigates, which can work alone independent of each other, but to also have some centralized redundant storage with a gui for viewing the centralized data.

I want to have as burglar prone setup as possible...

• redundant internet (wifi ISP + backup mobile operator)
• electricity backup for cameras + internet
• local and centralized storage

The only way how the burglar could not get caught on camera, he would have to have mobile signal jammer, disable the wifi ISP from afar, directly go to the mini-rack behind 2 locks and steal either the mini-pc or disk inside of it, because he would still be locally recorded. Or disable the electricity and wait like 10hours before the backup power runs out. But I would get notified about the power outage.