Do you want to detect the license plate of a car? Or if people are wearing their masks? Nowadays, these are typical examples of object detection and image classification which are easy in theory, but what about the actual deployment? There are many options from the Edge to the Cloud how you could do that. Let me show you the simplest and do even a comparison when it comes to the platform question.
I will use Cloud-managed Cisco Meraki IP cameras together with SaaS computer vision platforms from AWS, Azure and GCP, to showcase the simple deployment, possible integrations with APIs & MQTT and its whole architecture as well as outcomes.