How AI Is Redefining Safety and Security

It’s incredible to see how rapidly AI is transforming security already. One of the biggest overarching benefits is speed. That means that whether you’re trying to speed up how quickly you can trigger a lockdown or simply tracking down security footage of an incident, you can take action instantly. Solutions like Verkada AI-Powered Search are a great example of the value of speed: organizations can search for specific footage with natural language, like “person in a red jacket last Friday,” to quickly find footage of people or vehicles within minutes – compared to hours before AI.

More broadly, AI is helping organizations shift from just reacting to threats to taking a holistic, proactive approach to security. With capabilities like intelligent real-time alerts, teams can detect issues earlier and make more informed decisions, whether that means identifying a specific vehicle, such as “a red pickup truck with an orange bumper sticker,” receiving an alert when a prohibited individual approaches the property, or being notified when a room is nearing its occupancy limit.

AI in Action: Verkada History Player Search

Earlier this year, Verkada expanded its suite of powerful AI investigative tools with the introduction of History Player Search. What makes this feature unique is how it brings together multiple AI and computer vision technologies from across the Verkada platform into one seamless experience, creating something both innovative and incredibly useful for everyday investigations.

With a single click, History Player Search uses advanced computer vision analytics to generate a chronological playback of an individual or vehicle’s movement across all cameras, making it easy to find key moments, jump to events, and share clips as part of an Incident Report.

This is a powerful tool, especially for large and distributed enterprises. History Player Search eliminates the complexity and inefficiency of manually reviewing footage across dozens of cameras by automatically stitching together a chronological view of an individual or vehicle’s path across all cameras at a single site. This makes it easier to investigate workplace safety incidents or understand how an unauthorized vehicle accessed a restricted area, enabling teams to act quickly, confidently, and with greater context.

Building Responsible AI

AI is unlocking massive benefits across the physical security industry, from faster investigations to more proactive threat detection. But with such powerful technology, it’s critical that innovation never comes at the expense of responsibility.

Privacy and trust are principal to all of our product design, which is especially important when it comes to new technology like AI. All of our People Analytics features are disabled by default, giving organizations full control over when and how these AI-powered features are used. We’ve added further safeguards for features that leverage large vision and language models, such as query moderation to prevent inappropriate or biased searches. And to ensure accountability, administrators can review all platform activity and queries through detailed audit logs, providing full visibility into how these tools are being used. You can find more details on how we’re responsibly deploying AI across our platform on our Trust Hub.

Security as Operational Intelligence

AI is transforming physical security systems from safety tools into sources of operational intelligence. The same system that detects threats will also optimize business, analyzing customer traffic for retailers or monitoring production lines for manufacturers. This shift transforms security from a cost center into a value-generating tool that actively improves an organization’s efficiency and bottom line, providing insights for security, safety, and operations.

Want to experience the power of Verkada’s AI-powered security tools live? Come visit us at GSX at booth #3113