# OpenScout

> Distributed Automated Situational Awareness

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/edu.cmu.cs.openscout](https://chrome-stats.com/d/edu.cmu.cs.openscout)

## Overview

- **ID:** `edu.cmu.cs.openscout`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** CMUSatyaLab
- **Category:** EDUCATION
- **Downloads:** 27
- **Version:** 0.6
- **Last updated:** 2024-02-13
- **First published:** 2020-08-27
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 4.13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.cmu.cs.openscout)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openscout](https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openscout)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openscout/blob/master/PRIVACY\_POLICY.md](https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openscout/blob/master/PRIVACY_POLICY.md)

## Description

OpenScout: Distributed Automated Situational Awareness<br><br>OpenScout utilizes Gabriel, a platform for wearable cognitive assistance applications, to transmit the video stream from the device to a backend server where object detection, face recognition, and activity recognition (in a future release) are done. The results are then returned to the device and can be propagated to other services.<br><br>Prerequisites<br>OpenScout requires a server running the backend application to connect with. The backend runs on a machine with a discrete GPU. Please see https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openscout for instructions on how to setup the server.

## Rankings

- #2,492,607 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `com.google.android.glass.permission.DEVELOPMENT`

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/edu.cmu.cs.openscout)