Hardware Requirements for Shinobi

Below is a table of generally estimated hardware Recommendations extrapolated from a few test cases we have recorded.

For reference here are the test cases referenced :

• Hardware Test Notes - XPS 8950 Desktop with 70 Cameras doing Object Detection on GPU
• Hardware Test Notes - Lenovo Tiny PC with 8 Cameras doing Object Detection on CPU
• Hardware Test Notes - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX 32-Cores with 277 Cameras doing NO Object Detection

Important Notes to be consider when reading this table :

• Storage estimation are for a 2 week period.
• Event-based storage is estimated here assuming 30 second recording is created every 20 minutes.
• Object Detection ON rows include AI inference; GPU is mandatory.
• No Object Detection rows assume no AI, so CPU is ~50 % lighter and no GPU is required. Motion Detection is considered and runs on CPU.
• Extrapolation of these suggestions are created with the assistance of AI and may be considered modest. Meaning you can probably get deployed with less powerful specifications. See our actual Hardware Test Notes for a clearer idea.
• Test on any hardware you may already have before purchasing anything for your deployment to better understand how your cameras will perform with Shinobi.
• Camera counts between 100 and 1000 are extrapolated from a previous AI extrapolation found here.
• Feel free to feed this page link to AI, like ChatGPT, and ask it questions based on the provided information to better tune your deployment goals.