Well, almost every time, but then he or she walks away when you are not at home with the parcel which is the brand new device you were waiting for daaaaayyyyys leaving a piece of paper in your mailbox that tells you that you will be able to pick up your parcel at the next post office by tomorrow.
Ok, well, this was how it works (or better WORKED) until TODAY! A wireless cam, a Raspberry Pi with Windows IOT and Microsot Azure Face API will change this from now on!
Let's say the postman rings, and every time when this happens we - or even better a wireless camera - takes an image from the one in ront of the door. Our Raspberry Pi picks up the image and sends this image to "Azure Face Detection", which tells us who this guy is in front of our gate.
How does it know you ask? Because you are able to configure persons (respectively their image) to be allowed to enter your front door – even when you are not at home - on the Raspberry Pi. This configuration is later on used with the Azure Face API.
So the postman is one of the people allowed to enter, drops the parcel in front of your main door, leaves the lot, the automatic gate closes and the parcel is waiting for you.
In the evening when you come home from a hard day work you will open the parcel and play with your new toy immediately without waiting another night to grab it from the postal office on the next day.
You might want to check from time to time if someone was not allowed to enter during the day (the images are saved for you automatically) and grant access if you want to – but think twice if you really should – when you see the pic of your mother in law, is she really allowed to enter when you are not at home?
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