If you want to keep an eye on your home while you are away, sure, you could buy an off-the-shelf security camera, but where is the fun in that? And anyway, you might want to customize your security camera so that it does not alert you every time your cat decides to jump up on the kitchen counter, or do all of the other forbidden things that you would never allow if you were home. As an Edge Impulse user, chances are that your first instinct would be to build your own security camera, which is just what hardware hacker Naveen Kumar has done.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/who-goes-there-intruder-detection-using-ultra-low-power-thermal-vision