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Attention is a better word than surveillance

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.

By Daniel Reyes · Engineering Corner, Manufacturing

Close-up of a CNC machine tool over a chuck, coolant lines behind

Brivo's Eeva turns a sentence into a camera rule

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.

By Daniel Reyes · Agentic VMS, Manufacturing

A construction worker in a hard hat and high-visibility vest walking away from the camera on a paved plaza

Two million pounds of fish a day, one login

Silver Bay Seafoods replaced a patchwork of plant camera systems with one. The IT director's account covers production lines, food-safety audits, and the abandoned cars that kept turning up on the ferry.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Manufacturing

Workers beside stacked orange crates of fresh fish on the floor of a processing plant

What buyers ask before they buy a video agent

The inbound email has changed shape. It now arrives as a numbered list: false-positive governance, human-in-the-loop, auditability, on-prem options, validation paperwork, and a pilot whose length the buyer has already decided.

By Daniel Reyes · Customer Speak, Manufacturing

Workers at an electronics assembly line under stack lights and coiled orange air hoses in a factory

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.

By Daniel Reyes · Agentic VMS, Manufacturing

Orange industrial robot arms working along an automated production line in a factory