EdgeBell AI

How it fits together

EdgeBell AI, part by part

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1. 01

   The whole EdgeBell AI

   A PoE door station films visitors, rings every staff phone and, on a signed command, makes a separate relay module open the door strike.

2. 02Brain

   ESP32-P4 (door station)

   The brain: it runs the edgebell-station program

3. 03

   1080p camera + lens

   Films the visitor in 1080p with a wide M12 lens

   ESP32-P4 (door station) · MIPI-CSI (2 lanes) · 1080p video

4. 

   04

   IR lights, light sensor

   Lights the scene at night and tells the camera when

   ESP32-P4 (door station) · GPIO PWM and I²C · IR drive, light level

5. 05

   Mic and speaker

   Two-way talk between visitor and staff

   ESP32-P4 (door station) · I²S audio codec · Two-way voice

6. 06

   Call button

   Visitor presses to ring the staff phones

   ESP32-P4 (door station) · GPIO pin · Button press

7. 07

   PoE power and network

   One Ethernet cable gives power and the network link

   ESP32-P4 (door station) · RMII Ethernet PHY · Network data, 5 V power

8. 08

   Door relay module

   Checks a signed release command and pulses the door strike

   ESP32-C6-MINI-1 (relay) · LAN Wi-Fi, Thread or Matter · Signed release command

9. 09

   All connected

   7 key parts, one program, and your phone

The idea

One door station answers a clinic's locked front door on every staff phone, and only the indoor relay opens the strike

How the parts connect

EdgeBell AI, wired up

Every part, what links it to the brain, and how the data reaches your phone. A solid line is a cable; a dashed line is a radio link.

The program

What controls EdgeBell AI

for (;;) {
    frame = cam_get_frame();             // esp_cam_sensor, MIPI-CSI
    h264_encode(frame, &clip_ring);      // 1080p, 10 s pre-roll
    small = scale_640x360(frame);
    boxes = ped_detect(small);           // ESP-DL
    ev = tracker_update(boxes);          // person, dwell, cross
    if (gpio_get_level(BTN_PIN)) ev = EV_RING;
    if (ev) {
        sd_log(ev, thumbnail(frame));
        mqtt_publish(topic_event, event_json(ev));
    }
    webrtc_push(frame);                  // only while a phone is watching
}

To your phone

How the data reaches EdgeBell

Staff iPhone or Android, desk tablet browser

1. Door station
2. PoE Ethernet · MQTT/TLS
3. Cloud (events only)
4. WebRTC on the LAN
5. Staff phone
6. Signed command
7. Relay module

Key specs

Targets for production units; they may change during development.

Pricing

Target pricing. Smart alerts and local recording need no subscription. microSD card sold separately.

Indicative launch pricing in USD, excluding taxes and shipping. Final pricing is confirmed before any balance is charged.

1. 28 Oct 2026, 15:55LatestA 3 to 25 person clinic or office with a locked front door needs the door answered and released from any staff phone; staff walk to the door about 20 times a day (about 125 hours a year, est.), and cloud intercoms start near $3,995 plus about $20 a door a month (sources in DESIGN.md).

   • Drawn idea plan (idea.json): a small dental clinic from above with the street, the locked front door, the waiting room, the front desk and the treatment rooms; pins for the door station, the relay module above the door, the desk tablet and a staff phone in a treatment room
   • The product picture is now this drawn plan instead of the plain fallback card; drawn from the rev A design notes, not the CAD
   • What we kept from the market work: sold to small businesses, not homes, where no-fee doorbells are a giveaway market; video stays on site and no SIP server is needed
   • Next: a drawn plan for the Edge Hub lot counter, then more catalogue products on the fallback card

   See it in 3DFull research and design

2. 27 Oct 2026, 15:55Families want to know when the garage door is left open at night (police in Apple Valley MN and Papillion NE keep asking residents to check), who is at the side door, and whether the water heater is leaking. Today that is a myQ hub ($30-50), a video doorbell (myQ list $99.99) and a leak sensor, or our own GarageEye AI, EdgeBell AI and TankWatch kit at $217 together, with three apps.

   • Combined into GarageHome (https://iemilabs.com/products/garagehome/); EdgeBell AI itself is unchanged

   See it in 3DFull research and design

3. 27 Oct 2026, 03:14Owner decision (27 Oct 2026): merge our single-job products into multi-job devices.

   • New product page: https://iemilabs.com/products/doorpost/

   See it in 3DFull research and design