SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Education
Improve school safety with visual AI technology to automatically detect active threats in real time
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor delivers a highly versatile, intelligent, always-on solution leveraging the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to transform school safety from a reactive approach to a proactive turnkey solution.
Improve school safety with visual AI technology to automatically detect active threats in real time
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor delivers a highly versatile, intelligent, always-on solution leveraging the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to transform school safety from a reactive approach to a proactive turnkey solution.
Proven value
Scalable, secure, and proactive: Visual analytics to safeguard schools 24/7
Active shooter incidents in schools are rising, but current approaches to school safety are largely reactive, incomplete, and inflexible.
Visual AI technology offers a scalable, secure, and proactive solution that’s proven its value in a wide range of commercial applications worldwide. Our product, SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor, integrates rapidly with your existing closed-circuit cameras to detect, alert, track and prevent security threats—including a person drawing a gun, among many other scenarios—in real time. Visual AI Advisor gathers more data, interprets it faster, and responds more accurately than traditional systems can on their best day—a critical advantage when seconds count.
“With SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor, we can enhance our security measures to quickly detect and prevent threats and provide real-time alerts to our students and staff” (Brent Jaco, Superintendent, Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD).
Ready to transform your existing camera infrastructure with proactive visual AI analytics?
Visual AI technology monitors and detects security threats in real time, 24/7
Wherever cameras can see, Visual AI Advisor can autonomously interpret the action, whether it’s a person with a gun, someone needing first aid, or a door propped open suspiciously. Its AI models instantly analyze the situation and warn safety personnel while maintaining vigilance as the situation develops.
- Pairs with any camera system already installed on your site, including CCTV, PTZ, drones, and mobile devices.
- Allows you to automate visual analytics on multiple real-time video streams at once.
- Works 24/7 to observe, analyze, and act on video data in real time to improve safety every day.
Watch our webinar: Visual AI 101—How it Works and Why it Matters
Alerts authorities immediately when security is compromised
Visual AI Advisor for Education provides crucial information sharing when an active shooter threat is developing. For example, if a weapon is detected on any enabled camera feed inside or outside the building, Visual AI Advisor automatically sends role-based alerts to designated personnel about the threat with vital details so students can shelter and law enforcement can take action.
- Configure role-based alerts to notify designated personnel in real time via web and mobile apps, email, text, or onsite alarm systems.
- Disperse crucial information to authorities (e.g., location, time, and visual ID) in real time.
- Maintains situational awareness inside and outside campus buildings around the clock.
Watch our webinar: Visual AI—A Proactive Solution to Prevent School Shootings
Beyond weapon detection: serving many critical use cases across a school campus
School safety is not simply about weapon detection. Visual AI Advisor can run dozens of critical security use cases on a single camera. It includes everything from situational awareness of suspicious behavior to detecting individuals entering unauthorized areas or identifying unfamiliar vehicles in the school parking lot, drawing from a portfolio of over 125 pre-built models to take school safety to a new standard.
- Popular use cases for schools include weapon detection, intruder detection, person down detection, door open detection, continuous tracking of suspicious persons, license plate ID, facial ID, and more.
- Privacy is built into Visual AI Advisor by default, deploying securely on-prem or in the cloud without the need to store video files.
- Faces can be anonymized per a school’s privacy policies and practices.
Watch our webinar: How Visual AI Is Transforming the Conventional School Safety Model
Visual AI for school safety resources
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Visual AI for school safety: Time to Act
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Why SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Education?
Many of today’s prevalent measures to improve school safety take a reactive stance and are frustratingly limited in function.
- Studies have shown that humans struggle to pay close attention to video feeds over time and at increasing volumes.
- Technology to detect gunshot noise is a reactive measure that occurs after the first shot when lives are already at risk, and it doesn’t provide effective location accuracy capability to first responders as visual AI does.
- Machines using acoustic or radar technology to detect concealed weapons in specific locations (e.g., an entryway) are limited in range and coverage area.
In contrast, an automated weapons detection system leveraging visual AI delivers proactive, 24/7 preventative capabilities with higher performance, virtually unlimited coverage, and excellent location accuracy—at a lower setup and operating cost.
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor is currently deployed in public and private K-12 schools around the country. In the words of one of our education sector customers, Visual AI Advisor doesn’t replace his existing staff or safety procedure—it empowers them. “No matter how great all of us are, we’re all human beings. We get sick. We take a break. We turn around. The great thing about Visual AI Advisor is it never does that. It is always on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, no matter what the scenario.”
