“I’m so glad to see security industry people coming out in crowds again and visiting our booth.” “We were so busy all morning.”
GSX 2022 opened in Atlanta with enthusiasm and long lines at even the preregistration counters. This made up for the lack of Wi-Fi access. Our scheduled live streams are replaced by a great amount of video interview content, posted on the SecurityInfoWatch YouTube channel.
Dragonfruit AI
Dragonfruit AI CEO Amit Kumar explained the company’s groundbreaking Split AI on-premise and cloud-based analysis, bandwidth control and video-stream monitoring. “It should be part of the VMS, not an add-on,” he says. “There is a great deal of sensors that are not video. With AI becoming commonplace, the need for reducing 90% of alerts that are false alerts is critical. For example, for clean rooms, hospitals, you want to get an alert on an access control badge if someone is not wearing a PPE — you want that door to not open — impossible yesterday; commonplace today and tomorrow. You cannot patch on AI. You need an AI company to build a VMS — not a VMS company to layer on AI.”
Dragonfruit leverages Apple’s M1 chipset, now upgraded to M2, thus placing “tens, twenties, hundreds of cameras on a small form factor. You have to get the intelligence out of the camera and put it in a jar. M1 is a brain in a jar. Machine learning, where do you run it? Split AI allows us to move AI both on premise and in the cloud. A lot of bandwidth, we run it in the cloud. Not a lot of bandwidth, we do it on prem. The ability to offer the cloud based on bandwidth is completely unique in the industry. It’s a necessity.”
Kumar, an inventor who has 19 patents, is the founder and CEO of Dragonfruit AI. He previously founded Trimian, a smart contacts app backed by Spark Capital and Greylock Partners and later acquired by NerdWallet. He also founded Lexity, an e-commerce app platform acquired by Yahoo!
Quanergy
Gerald Becker, Quanergy’s vice president of market development and global alliances, says the company continues to generate excitement with its deployable solution on perimeter, speed and safety monitoring. This is accomplished through Quanergy’s latest 3D LiDAR sensor, integrations with solution providers and privacy protection.It always is an excellent sign when you have to wait in line for clients to get the story and even have booth passersby jump in to take pictures. In this case, it was a shot of Quanergy’s unique Qortex UI, complete with 3D rendering of detected human, vehicle, animal and other objects, an aerial view that is rotatable and movable on demand, simplified alerts crossing a boundary and a live video stream of any area.
enquire
We met Maureen French, head of enterprise sales of enquire, the first expertise, knowledge and research partner company that leverages AI, at the new exhibitors area. The area clearly was undersized for the interest enquire received at GSX, with attendees spilling into the aisle. enquire uses a patented blend of AI, data science and human intelligence to deliver context and analysis faster than any other expert knowledge platform.
EAGL Technology
A.S.R.S.
SIW met with Scott Seidler of EAGL, a solution provider for a wide range of public safety solutions, such as wearable and mobile energy waveform-based ballistic detection, and integrations with video, access control, mass notification, PSIM, public address, lockdown, and with partner A.S.R.S. for biometric-based firearm emergency access. The most important takeaways here is EAGL’s use of waveform energy, reducing false or no detection issues through legacy acoustic solutions. This allows reliable detection that is automated, which saves precious seconds, that even can activate an automated drone launch. Public safety answering points initiating a launch is becoming commonplace. The key requirement is the reliability of the detection and reduction in transmission delay, both of which are EAGL’s technology cornerstones.
https://www.eagltechnology.com/
Astrophysics Inc.
We interviewed Don Pyne, Astrophysics senior product manager, on 3D CT scan entry screening and the world’s first 3D cargo or whole vehicle scanning, now used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP has been seeing the skillful concealment of contraband at vehicle edges, in addition to tires and fuel tank. The criminal approach of these “skinny” concealed packs of fentanyl, etc., can fool legacy scanners, and this is where 3D Cargo scanning comes in. Pointing to an ultradetailed wireframe x-ray view of incredible detail generated by Multi-View CT, Pyne showed all the common areas of concealment.
The Astrophysics Multi-View CT is the world’s first 3D CT cargo system. Combining multiview radiography and high-speed computed tomography, the system allows airlines, freight forwarders and customs agencies to perform rapid and effective cargo inspections. Screeners often are distracted, but the 3D CT screening solution alerts on anomalies, automatically stopping for the operator to tilt the view and analyze, viewing colors and texture rendition.
Equipped with a powerful generator, the Multi-View CT delivers twice the power of conventional cargo systems. Operators can generate dozens of viewing angles of a single pallet, by using Astrophysics’ unique algorithms to reconstruct the views into a single 3D image that allows operators to examine the cargo from all angles.
https://www.astrophysicsinc.com/multi-view-ct/
Evolon
Evolon’s Kevin Sadler discussed the company’s array of highly advanced false-alarm reduction, camera control and safety AI algorithms. “There are two main areas: perimeter and central monitoring,” Sadler says. “It’s all about false-alarm reduction.” He demonstrates an example of a false alarm without the analytics. “We turn the analytics on, and it is centering in on the one person walking through the blizzard. Our patented algorithm cuts through the clutter.” Sadler, then demonstrates another type of obscured-video feed: “This is an IR camera triggering on lots of insects attracted to it, and even with the algorithm engaged, it is doing AI classification of the person.”
The biggest announcements, however, were yet to be revealed. “We now have product on Hanwha cameras, along with Axis. We have both a fixed-camera version and fixed to autotrack PTZ. And now we have automated gun detection. Over a football field away, the fixed camera detected the weapon.”
Hakimo.ai
Hakimo.ai CEO and co-founder Sam Joseph and Sarah Semerjian, head of marketing, demonstrated the company’s suite of false-alarm reduction, anti-tailgating detection, data-driven intelligence, sensor fault detection, Anomalous Cardholder Behavior Detection, GSOC AI assistant and a recent deployment at the Punta Gorda airport. “All the camera needs to do is stream the video. We collate invalid access events,” Joseph says. “Over time, it is a clear insider threat. Access control information is a goldmine of information. By looking at alarms over a long time, we can predict that this contact or sensor is faulty.” After seeing this solution, there are so many opportunities for cost reduction, shorter investigation times and risk reduction by detection of anomalous events, that we can’t see how an enterprise or corporate client could afford not to deploy this.
Steve Surfaro is chairman of the Public Safety Working Group for the Security Industry Association (SIA) and has more than 30 years of security industry experience. He is a subject matter expert in smart cities and buildings, cybersecurity, forensic video, data science, command center design and first responder technologies. Follow him on Twitter, @stevesurf.
