Tag: security cameras
ZeroEyes secures $23 million to accelerate customer deployments
August 25, 2023SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – ZeroEyes announced that it has secured $23 million in capital in addition to its recent dramatic growth, which surpassed 300% over the prior year.
The oversubscribed round was led by Octave Ventures, Alliance Holdings, and other existing investors. ZeroEyes said that it further demonstrates the pressing need for innovative solutions to curb the gun-related violence epidemic in the United States. ZeroEyes is currently deployed in thousands of buildings for hundreds of...
AEGIX Global awarded $3M to distribute ZeroEyes platform to Utah schools
August 3, 2023SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA and SALT LAKE CITY – ZeroEyes will continue to expand its partnership with Utah-based safety solutions provider AEGIX Global courtesy of a $3 million contract to distribute its AI-based gun detection platform to Utah schools.
In May, Security Systems News reported on the cooperation between ZeroEyes and AEGIX Global to integrate their platforms to create a sole solution that was uniquely built for Utah public schools. Now the Utah State Board of Education (USBE)...
Hobbs, New Mexico, opts to deploy ZeroEyes AI gun detection solution
August 1, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
PHILADELPHIA – ZeroEyes, creator of an AI-based gun detection and video analytics platform, has secured another town this week in its efforts to protect citizens against gun-related threats.
Following a year of successful deployment of the ZeroEyes platform at the Hobbs Municipal School District and careful evaluation, the city of Hobbs, New Mexico have chosen to deploy the solution and layer it over the town’s existing digital security cameras. With ZeroEyes’...
Hikvision Q2 success measured in release of over a dozen new products
August 1, 2023SSN Staff
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. – Security product manufacturer and supplier Hikvision has just rounded out what the company is calling a "phenomenal" second quarter for 2023.
Growth over that period was marked positively by the company thanks in part to over a dozen new product releases. Now Hikvision says that performance and growth is continuing into Q3 with the release of three new series of video security cameras from July alone. That includes two varifocal cameras, a 180-degree panoramic...
Valley Baptist Church improves security with ZeroEyes gun detection platform
July 11, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
PHILADELPHIA – A house of worship in Bakersfield, Calif., is taking proactive measures to protect churchgoers against the threat of violence with the introduction of ZeroEyes’ AI-powered gun detection and intelligent situational awareness platform.
According to 2021 FBI statistics, just over 14 percent of hate crimes are religion related, and religious buildings and institutions have come under fire including the recent mass shooting in 2022 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church...
Athena Security system deployed at Jefferson Regional
May 1, 2023SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas – American security firm Athena Security has announced that its weapons detection system has been deployed by Jefferson Regional of Southwest Arkansas.
Jefferson Regional is a not-for-profit health facility with 300 beds providing essential healthcare services for 11 different counties for more than a century. In equipping themselves with the Athena Security weapons detection system they are carrying on a tradition of leveraging state of the art technology to better serve...
Hernando County School District expands ZeroEyes deployment
April 28, 2023SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – AI-based gun detection video analytics platform ZeroEyes announced that a Florida school district has significantly expanded its deployment of the company’s software solution.
The Hernando County School District of Brooksville, Fla., has followed up on its one-year anniversary of the successful deployment of ZeroEyes by layering its detection platform on its existing security cameras in more than 10 facilities. In addition to detection, the company said its...
VIVOTEK to meet rising AI surveillance demand with VAST Security Station
February 22, 2023SSN Staff
TAIWAN – IP video surveillance provider VIVOTEK has announced it will officially launch its AI security system, VAST Security Station (VSS), in March.
The system will be available to users in three different tiers: VSS Lite, VSS Standard, and VSS Professional. The VSS platform combines advanced artificial intelligence (AI) with edge computing technologies to achieve accurate facial recognition and vehicle detection in real-time with integrated security cameras Vivotek stated. It’s...
ZeroEyes to be employed in protecting public transit
February 22, 2023SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – ZeroEyes has entered into a new partnership this week announcing their cooperation with the United Safety & Survivability Corporation to increase safety and decrease gun violence on public transit.
The strategic partnership will resell ZeroEyes proactive artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection solution to United Safety’s customer base of public transit systems in what the company says will reduce the probability and impact of active shooter threats on busses, subways,...
Repent, Harlequin! They said to the TikTok man
February 1, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Let me start off this week’s blog by saying that the cat is finally out of the bag for Eufy this week as the company admitted to its security cameras producing unencrypted streams for their web portal. Big kudos to Sean Hollister and the journalists at The Verge for leaning in on Anker and getting to the heart of the story like that.
I wrote a small piece about it at the time and had much the same response from their PR teams initially, a canned statement, followed by deflection, denial,...