The open IoT ecosystem from Security and Safety Things offers an innovative range of new applications for commercial cameras, leveraging Artificial Intelligence. These applications, provided by third party development partners, offer actionable insights and intelligence to building and site managers, as well as operators in a variety of different verticals. This IoT ecosystem leverages the processing and analytic power of modern IP cameras with an operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and plug-and-play approach. The Security and Safety Things OS provides a powerful, developer-friendly platform and developer community, optimized for simple design and execution of applications.