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For eighty years the camera watched and waited for a person to look. The new generation notices things and does something about them. I think that is the biggest change in the history of the device, and it started in 2024.
The hard part of putting an agent on a camera is the knowledge sitting in three people's heads at the plant. Someone has to get it out, and I think that someone is the integrator.
Eighty years ago the camera let engineers watch a rocket from a safe distance. It is about to become a worker. An essay on how vision unlocks physical AI, why the utility function already favours security, and what it takes to build for it.
In a Security Info Watch Q&A, Vikesh Khanna describes what the company means by agentic physical security, puts numbers on a ServiceNow deployment, and draws a line between automating alarm triage and automating a door lock.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ninety million automated actions, one hundred thousand cases, two thousand agents built. What one platform's 2025 tally says about where the work actually is.
The Copenhagen VMS maker says its summarization and search tools were tuned on a 300,000-item library of customer video, gathered under fair-exchange agreements and anonymized before use. Summaries ship now; search arrives at the end of 2026.
Tidewater Fleet Supply was losing inventory and could not find out how. Its IT director on a camera system that was network-only, kept going down, and would have cost $250 to $500 a lens to expand.
Eureka College's police chief used to search video minute by minute. Now a visitor's damage claim is settled by working backwards from the gate, and the door system finally talks to the cameras.
The Eagle Eye VMS now takes a plain-English description of what to watch for, such as a worker without a safety vest, and starts sending notifications. No new hardware, and one integrator has it guarding EV charging cables.
Three LinkedIn posts from the CEO of Spot AI, thirteen months apart, track video agents from a hashtag on a record-quarter note to the reason the company rebuilt how it sells.
Ambient.ai, Coram and Milestone have each put a report-writing step inside the video system. What they automate, and where the operator still signs, differs more than the press releases suggest.
Over ninety percent of security alerts are harmless. The case for spending human attention on the ten percent that are not, from the first edition of The Edge.
Spot AI stacked small detection models together until the stack ran out of judgement. A large multimodal model closed the gap, and the agent category came out of the seam between the two.
Read in order, Spot AI's customer mailers from 2021 to July 2026 show a product that shipped search first, analytics second, an assistant third and agents last. The page where people look at cameras got rebuilt the whole way through.
The YMCA of Greater Richmond rolled cameras across its branches faster than most organisations finish a pilot. The reason it stuck was Active Directory.
In March 2026 Spot AI stopped selling direct and put $2 million of equity on the table for partners. It is betting that the integrators who pull cable today will be the ones tuning agents on site.
A July 2026 post by Rhombus's Jeremy Gulley describes a command-line tool that exports a live snapshot of every site and device, and a Claude plugin that loads it before each query. The premise is that an agent that does not know where the cameras are cannot be trusted with much.
Cambridge, Maryland, could not get replacement parts for its old camera system. It kept its cameras, changed the software, and says it saved $10,000 and cut two-hour searches to half a minute.
Planned obsolescence is tolerable on a phone. On a $5 million security system it is absurd. Rob Frechette on why the money belongs in the intelligence layer.
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.
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.
