Customer Speak
Five users at a time was the whole problem
The Nashville Rescue Mission's old camera server let five people log in at once. Its IT manager on why the shelter switched, and why the deciding features were price and thumbnails.
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Agentic VMS
Spot AI's Iris: 20 photos and a conversation to build a camera agent
AI News reported on the April 2025 launch of a no-code builder that lets a plant manager describe a detection, feed it a handful of examples and attach an action such as shutting down a line. The claim was eight minutes, against the eight weeks a custom detector used to take.
Engineering Corner
How a video system answers "show me the forklift near the dock at 3 a.m."
Retrieval over video borrows its shape from text RAG, then has to solve two problems text never had: where in the frame, and when in the stream. The research that makes it work, and the checking step that keeps false positives down.
Customer Speak
Fifteen years looking for the bottleneck at the pay station
Glide Xpress studied fast-food drive-throughs trying to make its car washes faster. What finally showed it where cars stall was its own cameras.