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Wayne Transports runs 800 trucks out of yards the size of football fields. Its IT director on the damage nobody could explain, the LPR quote that did not fit the budget, and using cameras to back up the e-logs.
Our earliest filing, from December 2018, proposed running video analytics as a pool of small endpoints on cameras and appliances, with a controller that patches busy cameras to idle compute. It was never granted. Most of it is how the system works today.
Staccato trusts its employees and does not search them. Its director of technology explains how the company validates that trust with the cameras it already owned, deployed in seven weeks.
SAM turned segmentation into a prompt. SAM 2 gave it memory across frames. Put a self-supervised embedding behind them and a site manager can define a new object class from a handful of clicks, with no retraining. The design, the papers, and the limits.
Liberty-Perry School District in Indiana was losing footage to an unreliable recorder and losing hours to search. Its IT director on what a public district can afford, and who gets a login now.
Describing a scene is a solved demo. Doing the right thing in it every hour of a shift is the harder test, and buyers have started writing four metrics for it into their evaluations.
A new class of agents that watch for a specific behaviour and its consequence, shipped in July 2026. What each one does, and the small interface change that matters more than it looks.
Primex Farms ran a round-the-clock processing floor on a camera system that could only be watched from inside the building. What changed when the cameras started sending.
Surveillance records people so that someone can assign blame later. The safety directors running video agents describe something else: a camera that notices a forklift near-miss now, so the next one never happens.
In a trends piece for SourceSecurity, Hanwha's John Lutz Boorman argues that AI agents will take over routine watching and initial response, leaving humans with judgement calls and an oversight role the company calls AI governance manager.
June to September brought a dozen agent features from seven vendors. Sorted by what each one does, and whether it ships, is in beta, or exists only in a press release.
A self-storage operator with no one on site got an alert, sent it to the police, and the break-ins stopped after the arrest. How a small team watches more sites than it staffs.