Create your own vision alerting system with IoT Edge, Azure Custom Vision and a Jetson Nano

In this article I will guide you through the steps needed to create your own object alerting system running on an edge device. For this we will use an NVidia Jetson Nano, the Azure Custom Vision service and Azure IoT Edge.

The goal is to process the camera frames locally on the Jetson Nano and only send a message to the cloud when the detected object hits a certain confidence threshold.

Requirements before you start:

You need an Nvidia Jetson Nano

• A USB camera.
• An Azure Subscription (Get started for free here)
• Part 1 - Setup resources in Azure
• To get started we need to setup a few resources in Azure. For this we are going to use the Azure CLI. If you don't have the Azure CLI installed on your machine you can - follow the tutorial on MS Docs here.