What is AI Smart Search?

AI Smart Search leverages generative AI, natural language, and image search to identify operational issues, safety hazards, security risks, and compliance events across multiple camera views. Using AI Smart Search, business operators can now use images to easily see similar incidents and refine searches by combining visuals and text prompts. Using generative AI, hundreds of thousands of video snapshot images are transformed into a searchable database, allowing users to find key operational issues by simply writing or speaking commands like “open cash registers” or “open backdoors at night” or “empty shelves after 9am”.

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Key Features

  • Image and Text-Based Search: Combine snapshot images and natural-language searches to quickly identify operational issues and find similar events across one or multiple locations.
  • Visual Search Match: Start with a single snapshot image to find visually similar events across cameras and locations to identify recurring operational issues.
  • Voice-Activated Search: Locate specific video snapshots using natural-language voice commands, such as “blocked emergency exits.”
  • Filter Mass Search Results: Quickly refine search results with filters to search by time, location, camera, and other available attributes to pinpoint relevant events.
  • Smart Notifications: Save frequent searches and receive automatic email alerts when new matches are found.
  • Improved Search Precision: AI verifies visual matches to reduce false positives and return only high-confidence results.
  • Cross-Site Search: Search across all sites and cameras from a single query. Results are grouped by location and camera for faster review.
  • Industry Templates: Launch common investigations using ready-made templates for banking, retail, and more. Super Admins can create and share templates across users and sites.
  • Compliance and AI Governance: Strengthen traceability and accountability with detailed audit logs, protected-characteristic safeguards, and administrative data privacy controls.

Security & Compliance

For security-sensitive environments, AI Smart Search helps organizations quickly find issues such as unattended cash, line crossing, intrusion, or loitering, reducing risk and supporting stronger security policies. Quickly identify similar suspicious activity based on a single incident with image search and Visual Search Match. Detailed audit logs strengthen traceability and accountability, while administrative data privacy controls help organizations manage how search data is used to improve AI capabilities. Protected-characteristic safeguards further support responsible AI use and evolving regulatory requirements.

Safety & Risk Management

AI Smart Search enhances workplace safety by identifying potential hazards like “wet floors” and “stacked boxes” using voice, text and images to find precise matches. By searching for these risks, businesses can prevent workplace injuries, reduce liability, and maintain compliance with safety regulations. This proactive approach enables organizations to quickly address hazards, ensuring a safer environment for employees and customers.

Inventory & Stock Management

With AI Smart Search, retailers can quickly find instances of empty shelves, such as donut racks or other baked goods, by simply searching for “empty donut shelves after 9am.” This allows store managers to optimize restocking processes, reduce lost sales, and ensure product availability. By providing real-time operational visibility, businesses can proactively manage inventory levels and improve customer satisfaction.

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AI Smart Search analyzes video snapshots from all cameras taken at customizable time intervals. This gives customers access to a cost-effective, yet advanced generative AI tool leveraging video surveillance for business intelligence, while minimizing the storage and processing demands of analyzing full video footage.

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