Case Studies

Enterprise Campus

An international media company with a sprawling, 20-acre campus and 200 cameras was struggling with legacy motion and AI video analytics solutions that generated an average of 2,000 false alerts per month. These were triggered by human-shapes, shadows, leaves, weather, and animals. To address this, the company deployed Vaidio AI video analytics for real-time intrusion detection and forensic video search. Vaidio integrated with all 200 cameras and with the existing Milestone video management system (VMS).

Vaidio essentially eliminated false alerts, cutting them down to about 10, total, per month - a 99.5% reduction. Vaidio video search also reduced incident investigation from hours or days down to minutes. The customer praised the Vaidio system for its reduction in false alerts, stating that "the Vaidio system was so quiet, we had to do a walk around check every couple of weeks just to make sure it was on." As a result of the Vaidio Platform's strong performance, the company a dozen Vaidio video analytics applications over time.

Key Value:

• 99.5% reduction in false alerts
  
• Reduced video investigation from hours or days to minutes

School District

A school district in Texas with 58 schools was struggling with theft, vandalism and overall school security. Their existing system was made up of 3,000 simple video security cameras, motion detection, and a video management system. Their existing system was not performing effectively and they wanted to upgrade the district’s security posture. They explored alternatives and found that Vaidio AI could add more effective and accurate intrusion detection along with AI accelerated video search to improve security at all their campuses – while leveraging existing cameras, and saving them 50% in solution, labor, and recurring costs over five years. The customer said, “When we actually detailed out full solution, labor and recurring costs over five years; and understood that we’d extend the useful life of our existing cameras and add best-in-class AI – the Vaidio solution became a no-brainer.”

Key Value:

• 50% reduction in TCO

• Extended useful life of existing cameras

Water Utility

A water utility company faced vandalism issues at one of its sites and was overwhelmed with false alerts from its legacy security system. The company deployed the Vaidio AI Vision Platform with existing cameras and enabled Vaidio Intrusion Detection. Within two weeks, Vaidio detected an attempted break-in. Authorities were alerted and they were able to apprehended the suspect. The system also eliminated all nuisance false alerts. The head of security said, "We were so pleased with the Vaidio system's performance that we plan to deploy across all 22 water authority sites."

Key Value:

• 99.9% reduction in nuisance false alerts

• Extended useful life of existing cameras

Smart City Crime Reduction

A Midwest police department struggling with high rates of crime and lengthy video investigation times turned to Vaidio. Vaidio LPR and Video Search are deployed on 80 of the city's existing standard video cameras at a fraction of the cost of proprietary, purpose built LPR solutions. Vaidio LPR enables fast uploading of updated stolen vehicle lists, and identifies stolen plates as soon as they enter town. Vaidio alerts contain GPS coordinates, and vehicle color, make, model, and map location, giving responding officers valuable situational awareness. Vaidio LPR has helped the department apprehend multiple robbery suspects and intercept hundreds of stolen plates and vehicles. Vaidio Video Search has also impressed the department with its speed and accuracy in forensic video investigation, reducing investigation time from hours to seconds. One officer said that "Vaidio processes in seconds what takes [a competing system] multiple hours to complete." The department values the platform's ability to work with existing cameras and add additional analytics applications over time, and plans to deploy with hundreds of additional cameras over time.

Key Value:

• Improved departmental effectiveness

• Significant cost savings vs. proprietary LPR systems

• Video investigation time reduced from hours or days to seconds

NFL Stadium

A major league sports stadium explored AI video analytics solutions with three goals: to be more proactive in managing the physical security of their environment; to improve the fan experience; and to be conservative with their budget.

One challenge the stadium had was that it’s difficult to quantify the ROI of safety and security. Without hard dollar savings, the cost benefit of improved guest safety and security had to be closely monitored.

Alternatives proved expensive: cloud solutions required engineering time; and alternative video analytics solutions required 40 to 80 compute servers costing $2-$4M in hardware alone. The Vaidio team estimated 10 servers to cover the stadium’s 400 cameras – a 75% hardware cost savings which made the project financially feasible.

A POC proved that Vaidio could accurately detect license plates and intrusions. The POC also proved that Vaidio was “professional, knowledgeable, and quick to address the few issues that came up.” The stadium has now deployed Vaidio with 400 cameras. The initial use cases of license-plate based access control and real-time security alerting have expanded to include inventory, PPE, forklift safety and truck idle time monitoring.

The stadium said that “We didn’t have the experience with a functional AI system before. We had to learn how to take the detection alert, and create a specific response to it. And create the metrics to track it. How efficient are we? How fast are we responding? How many incidents are we tackling? What are we responding to? Are we in compliance? If we use it properly, it should absolutely meet the goal of a safer environment and a better fan experience. We will end up fully deployed with 4 Vaidio servers plus a spare. We’re in the process now of putting new cameras into new places to enable new applications we hadn’t even thought of before.”

Key Value:

• Improved stadium safety, security, and guest experience

• Ability to add new capabilities for incremental investment

• Hardware cost savings of ~75% or more compared to alternatives