Open-source video-intelligence
A billion cameras already watching. Almost none of them counting.
Mesopic turns the RTSP / ONVIF security cameras you already own into business sensors — footfall, queues, dwell time, live occupancy — with no new hardware and no sales call. The computer vision runs on your box. Footage never leaves the building.
Run the engine — free, MIT Hear about the hosted version
This is what the engine sees: anonymous points crossing a line. No faces, no identities, no stored video — not as a policy, but because the frame is gone before anything else runs.
What it measures
- Footfallpeople in and out, over time
- Live occupancyhow many are in a space right now
- Queue lengthhow many are waiting, and for how long
- Dwell timehow long people linger in a zone
- Line-crossingsdirectional counts over a tripwire
- Conversionentries against a downstream action
Why it is different
Your cameras stay yours. Not a sensor per door, not a proprietary camera estate. Anything speaking RTSP or ONVIF — which is essentially every IP camera made in the last decade.
Cheap hardware is enough. CPU-only by design. A mini-PC handles a couple of cameras; a GPU is an optional speed-up, never a requirement.
Footage never leaves the building. Frames are discarded the moment they are processed. Only anonymous foot-points and the metrics derived from them are stored, and the hosted layer cannot receive video at all — it is not a policy, it is an enforced boundary in the code.
No faces, no identities. No face recognition and no biometric storage. Mesopic counts anonymous points, not people it recognises.
The hosted layer
Self-hosting is free forever and always will be. The paid layer is the thin, optional part for people who want multi-site rollups, history, and alerts without running their own database — and it only ever receives metrics, never pixels.
It is not built yet. Leave an address and you will hear once, when there is something real to try. It is intended to be £19/month for a single site and £49 for multiple — not final, and said plainly rather than left to a sales call, which is the thing Mesopic exists to avoid.