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Sergey Okinchuk

May 26, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 6.8K views

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I need to design a pipeline for ingesting streaming data (video, audio, and telemetry) from remote video cameras to Cloud AI/ML services. Cameras can be wired or wireless. So connection can be unstable. The video should be processed separately from each camera. Telemetry and audio can be added in the future, for now, it's only video stream. Looking for a solution for GCP. Thanks!

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Pablo Estrada

Software Engineer at Google · Dec 7, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 768 views

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Disclosure: I work on Beam and Dataflow.

I have seen Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow used to develop pipelines processing data from IoT devices via PubSub. Beam also has connectors for Cloud AI services, like the Vision API[1]. If you can upload data to Cloud Storage, or stream it via PubSub, Beam has appropriate connectors for all of those.

I have no exposure to the services around Cloud IoT, but I believe they all work via PubSub, so they should integrate well with Dataflow.

Check the video in [2]: A use case that seems very similar to yours - they don't go into implementation details much, but it should give you an idea of the general architecture.

[1] https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/2.25.0/apache_beam.ml.gcp.visionml.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPuE30kY6-c

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