Frigate NVR

Frigate NVR is an open-source network video recorder (NVR) that uses real-time AI for object detection. The tool handles all processing locally, using your own hardware, to keep camera feeds private.

Frigate helps users decrease false positives through local object detection, unlike traditional NVRs that use simple motion detection.

By using a Google Coral TPU for object detection, even less powerful hardware can perform detailed analysis to identify motion as a person, car, or other object.

This approach avoids sending personal camera footage to the cloud for analysis, which improves privacy and reduces costs. Frigate's AI can analyze video feeds at over 100 object detections per second with a single Google Coral TPU.

This ensures comprehensive frame analysis. Frigate also provides real-time object tracking to accurately determine when a person approaches your door or a car enters your driveway.

Users can customize notifications based on these precise locations. It also integrates with popular home automation platforms like Home Assistant, OpenHab, and NodeRed, allowing object detection to be incorporated into existing systems.

Frigate delivers a dynamic, real-time video feed, rendering cameras with active detections for simple monitoring. Users highlight Frigate's customizability, quick object detection, strong Home Assistant integration, and elimination of cloud dependencies while maintaining object detection and recording history.

In summary, Frigate NVR offers users a locally controlled, customizable, and efficient security camera system.