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Spot AI Engineering

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Sep 17, 2026

The switchboard idea: cameras that borrow each other's compute

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.

Sep 10, 2026

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.

Sep 4, 2026

Engineering Corner

Describing an event in a sentence and letting the camera look for it

Most of what customers want to detect has no off-the-shelf model. Our first granted patent covers the workaround: put frames and sentences in the same vector space and treat a description as a trigger.