Only when they checked the security system did they realize the video cameras hadn’t been working for months.

“Our mission is to be the essential physical security software layer for every building, and the foundation of a larger enterprise IoT infrastructure” Kaliszan tells me.

By uniting security cameras and door locks in one system, it could keep banks, schools, hospitals, government buildings, and businesses safe while offering new insights on how their spaces are used.

“We can immediately show them all the video containing a particular person of interest rather than manually searching through hours of footage” Kaliszan insists.

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