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Verkada: Protecting People and Places in a Privacy-Sensitive Way With Innovative Cloud-Based Physical Security Solutions
Jonathon Dixon
The security landscape has evolved. It’s no longer about just keeping intruders out, but taking a proactive stance to make your organization run safely and efficiently. In today’s world, organizations can leverage real-time data from security technology to empower leaders to make better, more informed decisions. At Verkada, we’re at the forefront of this transformation, offering customers cloud and AI-enabled security solutions that integrate together under one user-friendly software platform. Our solutions help more than 26,000 organizations across the world protect their people and places in a privacy-sensitive way, from retailers like City Beach and Canada Goose to global fitness clubs like Equinox and fan-favorite teams like the Chiba Lotte Marines.
The Benefits of Cloud-Based Physical Security
Traditional on-premise security systems often require extensive hardware, complex configurations, and costly maintenance. Verkada flips this model by providing a modern cloud-first solution that is scalable, reliable, and easy to deploy. Our hybrid-cloud architecture provides organizations with numerous benefits including:
Centralization: Cloud solutions hosted on a singular platform connect everything under one user-friendly interface—unlike on-prem systems, where navigating multiple interfaces, rules, and processes can be cumbersome. Having all your security solutions centralized on one platform enhances situational awareness, simplifies management, and allows for quicker, more coordinated responses to incidents.
Scalability and Customization: Cloud-based solutions managed on an integrated platform can streamline installations across any number of sites or locations, providing a more cohesive solution compared to standalone products. Cloud platforms can also integrate easily with other technology partners through API endpoints, making them highly customizable and better equipped to scale with customers' evolving security needs.
Constant and Powerful Updates: With the cloud, organizations benefit from automatic firmware updates, ensuring that their physical security systems are protected with the most up-to-date cybersecurity measures. Unlike on-prem systems, where security teams must manually update software, cloud solutions automate this process, saving both time and resources. Additionally, cloud-based solutions provide organizations with automatic software updates, equipping them with the latest AI capabilities, advanced analytics, and other tools to address evolving security threats. This ensures that their systems remain resilient, responsive, and continuously up to date.
Verkada’s Integrated Approach to Physical Security
Verkada designs its solutions to unify all aspects of security management into a single, cloud-based platform.
By seamlessly connecting our six product lines—video security, access control, intercoms, environmental sensors, workplace, and alarms—our solutions provide organizations with a comprehensive and cohesive security ecosystem.
This native integration between devices not only streamlines management but also provides organizations with better context to inform decision-making. For example, consider an individual passing through an access point. With a standalone access control system, you can only determine that an individual passed through the access point by looking at the credential log. But paired with a camera that has advanced analytics, you can get an automatic alert sent to you via text with video footage that shows that while one individual swiped their badge, another person followed closely behind without swiping—a practice known as tailgating. This valuable context—all available in real-time, from anywhere—enables security leaders to identify and address unauthorized access attempts as they happen, and understand patterns that will help them improve their security program, such as implementing anti-tailgating measures or increasing surveillance at vulnerable points.
Reducing Investigation Times From Hours to Minutes With AI-Enabled Capabilities
AI-powered solutions are game-changing in physical security. They enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and improve the overall effectiveness of physical security teams. Recently, Verkada released two AI-powered features designed to drastically reduce investigation times and help security teams shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to safety.
Verkada is helping organizations across Japan and Asia-Pacific protect their people and places in a privacy-sensitive way with cloud and AI-enabled security solutions that integrate together under one user-friendly software platform
Using advanced language and vision models, Verkada’s AI-Powered Search feature enables customers to quickly search through security footage with everyday language like 'person holding a baseball bat' or 'white Tesla Model Y with tinted windows.' What once took hours of manually reviewing footage can now be done in minutes, giving security teams back one of their most valuable resources: time.
Building on its AI-Powered Search feature, Verkada introduced AI-Powered Alerts, allowing security teams to set custom alerts for natural language queries like ‘person not wearing safety vest.’ This shifts organizations from taking a reactive approach to a proactive approach to safety, and is an especially critical capability for industries like manufacturing or construction, where compliance is paramount. These automated alerts can be set to notify supervisors, security personnel, and even law enforcement via text, email or mobile app.
These industry-leading AI capabilities are ultimately empowering security teams to operate more efficiently and effectively by transforming incident response from a time-consuming process into a quick and seamless workflow.
Driving Innovation Across Japan and Asia-Pacific
With offices across Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, we recognize how dynamic and diverse the Japan and Asia-Pacific region is. That’s why we’re investing in some of the brightest teams and leaders across the region—to protect communities by delivering exceptional service to our customers and partners with local expertise, innovative solutions, and a deep understanding of their unique needs.
By releasing new product and software updates every quarter, we’re making sure our customers have access to the latest and most advanced physical security solutions to safeguard their people and places. This commitment not only protects our customers but also brings Verkada closer to realizing its vision of operating the world’s safest and most efficient buildings. As we continue to innovate and enhance our offerings, we are dedicated to helping organizations seamlessly navigate the ever-evolving physical security landscape.
