Customer Speak
One loss-prevention director, twelve stores, 27 percent fewer incidents
Mike Wimpy used to feel like he was chasing his workday. Now, he says, everybody knows he is everywhere. What changed at McKeever Enterprise.
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Latest Research
From one in ten to one in two: the arithmetic behind the forecast
Analyst forecasts now put agentic capability in half of all video analytics by 2030, up from under a tenth today. A latency budget and a utility function explain why the curve bends where it does.
Agentic VMS
The $31 million bet that cameras should act
In October 2024 Spot AI launched the first Video AI Agents and closed a $31 million round with Qualcomm Ventures. What the chipmaker was actually buying.
Latest Research
Occlusion is the problem nobody puts in the demo
A forklift, a pallet and a person, and the moment one hides another. A video agent is judged on what it does in that second, and the sales deck skips it.
Data Centers
Why the edge box is winning the argument over the cloud
The cloud was supposed to eat everything. For video agents it lost on arithmetic: a facility with 64 cameras produces 30 terabytes a month, and a lock has to fire in under a second.
Customer Speak
Five vehicles recovered in an hour
When the alarm went off at a Don Franklin dealership, the IT director had footage on responding officers' phones within four minutes. The auto group says it has since saved or recovered more than $1 million in assets.
Customer Speak
Every building Bridge33 buys comes with someone else's cameras
A commercial real-estate firm with more than 25 assets considered ripping out every inherited camera system and standardising on one brand. It decided that would not have fixed anything.
Agentic VMS
Hakimo raises $10.5M for an AI operator that follows the guard's playbook
SiliconANGLE's report on the Menlo Park startup's Series A describes an agent that detects anything you can describe in words, warns intruders over a speaker and runs standard operating procedures with a human on call.
Construction
A guard on a pole
Spot AI put a video agent on a mast with lights and a loudspeaker. Surveillance towers have looked like this for twenty years. What changed is that this one can tell a delivery driver from a thief, and speaks to each differently.
Agentic VMS
Build a video agent by describing it
Custom video detection used to mean an ML team and six to eight weeks of work. Iris made it a ten-minute conversation. What that changes.
Engineering Corner
What an agent is, mechanically
Our second granted patent describes the machinery under a video agent: a template, a set of filters over detected objects, a zone and an action, with a trace of every step so you can see why it fired.
Customer Speak
The school resource officer finds his own footage now
Athens Area School District covers 178 square miles of Pennsylvania. Its IT director used to be the person called for every clip. What changed, and how a vape sensor got a camera.