ATLANTA — A busy opening day at GSX 2026 brought security professionals onto a densely packed exhibit floor Monday at the Georgia World Congress Center, where artificial intelligence, integrated security operations and new approaches to monitoring and response were among the early technology themes.

The exhibit hall had a noticeably different feel from ISC West, with many booth footprints smaller — in some cases considerably smaller — and vendors packed more tightly together. The result was a bustling floor that put a wide range of technologies within relatively short walking distance.

There is plenty to cover. GSX organizers say this year’s event features more than 500 exhibitors across more than 190,000 square feet of exhibit space, along with more than 200 educational sessions.

Here are several announcements and technologies that stood out on Day 1:

Dataminr and Crisis24 connect intelligence with response

Dataminr announced Dataminr Advanced for Corporate Security at GSX, adding agentic AI capabilities designed to help corporate security teams corroborate threats, understand their significance and anticipate how an incident may develop.

The company also announced a new solution with Crisis24 that brings Dataminr's real-time intelligence and agentic AI directly into the Crisis24 Horizon integrated risk management platform. Unveiled at GSX and now available, the integration combines Dataminr's automated intelligence capabilities with Crisis24's human-verified analysis, mass notification and global response capabilities.

The companies are showcasing the solution at GSX, with Dataminr at Booth 1560 and Crisis24/GardaWorld at Booth 2232.

Specialized launches AURIX and GSOC-as-a-Service

Specialized introduced AURIX, a proprietary security operations platform, at GSX on Monday. The platform is designed to connect clients, frontline security officers and command operators while converting officer activity into predictive metrics.

Specialized also introduced a GSOC-as-a-Service offering powered by AURIX, providing organizations with centralized security operations capabilities without requiring them to build and staff their own command center.

The company is demonstrating AURIX throughout GSX at Booth 1304.

DMP puts greater emphasis on commercial video

Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) is using GSX to emphasize the expanding role of video within its broader unified security platform.

At Booth 3205, DMP is showcasing its XV Plus Gateways, designed to bring intrusion, access control and video intelligence together at the edge. The company is also highlighting its expanding commercial video portfolio and capabilities within its Virtual Keypad ecosystem.

DMP is additionally demonstrating an upcoming integration with ASSA ABLOY Aperio, illustrating how wireless locking technology can be incorporated into the DMP ecosystem for locations where running communications cabling to individual doors may be difficult.

Splan unveils SENA security robot

Splan used the opening day of GSX to unveil SENA, or Smart Entry & Navigation Assistant, an AI-powered robotic assistant designed specifically for physical security applications.

SENA is designed to move through an environment and interact with people, with potential functions ranging from visitor registration, identity verification and navigation to guard tours, mustering, incident management and other security workflows.

The company marked the product's introduction with an unveiling ceremony featuring John Nemerofsky, COO of SAGE Integration, alongside Splan founder and CEO Madhu Gourineni.

Splan is showcasing SENA at Booth 2045 throughout GSX.

Cobalt AI puts context behind alarm detection

Cobalt AI is demonstrating Cobalt Monitoring Intelligence at GSX, a platform designed to correlate information from cameras and access control systems with an organization's security policies to provide additional context around an alarm.

The idea is to move beyond simply detecting an event and help determine whether it requires escalation to a human operator or can be handled through automation. Cobalt is demonstrating the technology at Booth 3519.

RAD brings Immix integration online

Robotic Assistance Devices announced Monday that its integration with the Immix monitoring platform is now available to Immix users, supporting RAD's ROSA and RIO platforms.

The integration brings RAD-generated alarm events, live video, pre-alarm recordings and interactive capabilities into established Immix monitoring workflows. Operators can also use audio transmit and relay controls to take a more active role during an event.

RAD and Immix said support for RAD's AVA platform is planned for 2027. The company is discussing the newly available integration with attendees at GSX this week.

AI moves further into the security decision process

Taken together, several of the opening-day announcements point toward a broader theme on the GSX floor: AI is increasingly being positioned not simply as a tool for detecting an event, but for helping security professionals determine what it means and what should happen next.

That shift puts more focus on how much authority organizations are willing to give automated systems and where human judgment still needs to remain firmly in control. As GSX moves into its second day, that balance is likely to remain one of the more important questions surrounding the industry's expanding use of AI.

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