Object detection with ultra-small camera M5UnitV2 AI Camera

MLBoy
2 min readMar 1, 2022

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It is a method to perform object detection with M5 Unit V2 of IoT device

Edge AI plays an active role in various industries

Auto Driving, production line check. .. ..
As machine learning functions can now be executed on small devices, I think that the use of AI in the IoT will further expand in the future.

Try the small camera device M5 Unit V2

It is important to try something for the time being, so I
will try the camera M5 Unit V2 with a built-in CPU.
It is the size of a palm.

procedure

Install the driver from here.

Connect to your computer via USB.

At the command line, look for the device connection.

ifconfig

Look for something like this.

en5: flags = 8863 mtu 1500
options = 6467
ether 00: e0: 99: 31: c6: 93
nd6 options = 201
media: autoselect
status: inactive

Reactivate.

sudo ifconfig en5 down 
sudo ifconfig en5 up

In the browser

http://10.254.239.1/

To access.

If the connection is successful, the Unit V2 UI will be displayed and you will be able to access the preset AI camera tasks.

For various tasks

It’s small and very light, so I want to apply it to various tasks.

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