- A man in a dark jacket walks up to the bike rack outside the shop.
- He crouches beside a grey bicycle. He did not arrive on it.
- He takes a handheld tool from his jacket. It is an angle grinder.
- Sparks at the rack. He is cutting the lock.
- ALERT · Theft in progress. Operator notified.
Cameras that tell you the story of what's happening.
Most cameras record. Some draw boxes. Pixonn watches every feed and describes, in plain language, what is actually going on, while it is going on. The AI does the watching; people supervise.
- A man has been standing to the left of the entrance for two minutes without going in.
- He adjusts his jacket. A handgun is tucked into his waistband.
- ALERT · Handgun seen outside the store. Checked a second time before sending.
- A person in a hooded top stops at a shop window. The mall closed two hours ago.
- They are spray-painting the glass.
- ALERT · Vandalism in progress at the shopfront.
- Two people meet by the benches. Neither came out of the building.
- One hands over a small package and takes something in return. They leave in opposite directions.
- FLAG · Brief package exchange in the courtyard. Third this week at this spot.
- A forklift is reversing out of aisle B. A worker is walking behind it, looking down at his phone.
- The forklift is operating too close to the worker. Its driver isn't wearing a hard hat.
- SAFETY · Near miss in aisle B. Logged for the shift supervisor.
Cameras everywhere, nobody watching.
Video is the most underused asset an organization owns. It gets pulled up after something has gone wrong, and rarely while there is still time to do anything about it.
People can't watch it all
One operator, a wall of feeds, a long night. Human attention does not scale to a fleet of cameras.
Analytics only know a fixed list
Today's alerts are limited to perimeter protection and a set of pre-trained object types. Anything else goes by unnoticed.
Investigations mean scrubbing
Finding one moment means dragging through timelines by hand, so the operational and security insight in that footage stays locked up.
A label is not a story.
Take the cycle-store frame at the top of this page. Here is what each kind of system has to say about it.
Says nothing
The footage is there if someone reports a bicycle missing and has the time to go looking.
Names the objects
bicycle 0.88
Both are permitted here. No rule matches, so nothing is raised. The tool in his hand isn't in its vocabulary.
Tells you what is happening
Nobody anticipated this scenario or wrote a rule for it. The output is a sentence an operator can act on.
As it happens, and on demand.
The same understanding of every scene drives both alerting and search. You describe what matters in a sentence instead of picking from a menu.
As it happens
Alerts arrive as sentences, and you write the conditions yourself.
- Rule-based and prompt-based alerts, with no retraining
- Severe events get extra scrutiny before they reach an operator, keeping false alarms low
On demand
Search weeks of footage the way you search the internet.
- Rich descriptions of people, objects and actions
- Questions that span cameras: "Where did this person enter the building?"
Human-managed, AI-assisted
An operator watches a wall of feeds while software flags a handful of pre-set events. Coverage is capped by how many screens one person can watch.
AI-managed, human-supervised
The system watches the whole fleet continuously and tells people what warrants their attention. It is an end-to-end system built for that, not an analytics layer bolted onto an existing one.
Built by people who've shipped in this industry.
Pixonn pairs senior operating experience inside the video security industry with hands-on engineering for AI that has to run on real hardware, in the field, over bad connections.
Sean Weiss
Sean has spent his career leading engineering organizations, most recently as Head of Embedded Video AI at Motorola Solutions — one of the largest players in video security and access control. An entrepreneur and inventor, he leads Pixonn's strategy, partnerships and commercial work.
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Donovan Webb
Donovan is an embedded systems and edge-AI engineer who builds and maintains fleets of connected devices in the field — firmware, on-device machine learning and the unglamorous work of keeping hardware running over unreliable links. He leads Pixonn's technical work and authored the patent-pending approach the product is built on.
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