What is AI Smart Search?

AI Smart Search leverages natural language and image processing with advanced algorithms to identify specific events, people or objects 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 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 text in a single query to quickly refine searches and identify similar incidents—delivering richer, more precise results.
  • Visual Search Match: Quickly move from identifying one incident to a full pattern using visual search match to find all snapshots that match one incident.  
  • Voice-Activated Search: Quickly locate specific video snapshot images by issuing voice commands like “Empty donut shelves.”
  • Enhanced Investigations: Reduces the need for manual searching, allowing businesses to pinpoint operational inefficiencies in seconds.
  • Attribute-Based Filtering: Enables searches based on specific characteristics, such as clothing color, vehicle type, objects, and how they move through a scene.
  • Intelligent Scene Analysis: Analyze large volumes of image snapshots to identify patterns, anomalies, or events of interest, reducing human error.
  • Smart Notifications: Save frequent searches and receive automatic email alerts when matches are found.
  • Precision Upgrade: AI confirms visual matches to reduce false positives and shows only high-confidence results.
  • Designed for future growth with extended retention, cloud flexibility, and support for long-term compliance needs. 

Security & Compliance

For security-sensitive environments, AI Smart Search allows organizations to instantly find “unattended cash on desks,” line crossing, intrusion detection, and loitering reducing security risks and improving policies. Quickly identify similar suspicious activity based on one incident with image search and Visual Search Match. Additionally, the ability to detect “blurry images” ensures that security footage remains clear and useful for investigations, compliance audits, and loss prevention efforts. With AI Smart Search, businesses can enhance security protocols and maintain compliance by providing full operational visibility.  

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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