LIVE ESP32 AI Camera → Real-Time Object Detection + Live HLS Stream (Full IoT Pipeline)
In this project, we build a complete real-time AI object detection streaming pipeline using IoT and edge-to-server processing.
We use an ESP32-S3 with OV5640 camera module to capture images and send them via MQTT protocol to a Node-RED server.
On the server side, Node-RED processes incoming images using TensorFlow COCO-SSD model for object detection. The system automatically draws bounding boxes and labels on detected objects.
The processed images are then forwarded as a MJPEG stream to Restreamer, which converts and broadcasts the video stream to HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) for web playback.
🔧 System Architecture
ESP32-S3 + OV5640 Camera
→ MQTT Image Publishing
→ Node-RED Server
→ TensorFlow COCO-SSD Inference
→ Image Annotation (Bounding Boxes)
→ MJPEG Stream Output
→ Restreamer
→ HLS Live Stream
🚀 Features
- Real-time image transfer via MQTT
- AI object detection using COCO-SSD
- Live bounding box annotation
- Node-RED automation pipeline
- MJPEG to HLS streaming conversion
- Web-ready live video output
💡 Use Cases
- IoT AI camera systems
- Smart surveillance prototypes
- Edge AI + cloud hybrid systems
- Industrial monitoring demos
- Smart home / robotics projects
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