Rental property monitoring and protection system and method

An electronic computation device comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the electronic computation device to:
• acquire video data of an entrance for the rental property from a digital camera;
• use a machine learning system to establish a boundary within a field of view of the digital camera, wherein the boundary is associated with the entrance;
• use the machine learning system to identify an object of interest traversing the boundary;
• in response to identifying the person traversing the boundary, updating an occupancy count for the rental property;
• and
• send an occupancy message to a remote computing device, wherein the occupancy message includes the updated occupancy count.

A computer program product for an electronic computation device comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the electronic computation device to:

• acquire video data of an entrance for the rental property from a digital camera;
• use a machine learning system to establish a boundary within a field of view of the digital camera, wherein the boundary is associated with the entrance;
• use the machine learning system to identify an object of interest traversing the boundary;
• in response to identifying the person traversing the boundary, updating an occupancy count for the rental property;
• and
• send an occupancy message to a remote computing device, wherein the occupancy message includes the updated occupancy count.