Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Comcast Smart Solutions, a division of Comcast specializing in smart technology for businesses and communities, today announced it has expanded its strategic relationship with Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO to offer customers a broad range of new AI video analytics solutions.
The partnership will expand Comcast Smart Solutions' existing video analytics expertise and give customers more flexibility in selecting the right smart video solution, the people said.
“As technology continues to innovate and the industry continues to face new challenges, organizations must reevaluate how they use and manage their video and analytics systems,” said Michael Slovin, vice president and general manager, Comcast Smart Solutions. “Strengthening our relationship with Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO, two video analytics leaders that offer highly valuable and complementary products, will enable us to deliver even more powerful and flexible solutions to our customers.”
“Our goal is to provide broad access to video analytics and AI-powered technology that can provide the data, insights and real-time alerts they need – everything from consumer behavior and inventory declines to traffic patterns and license plate readings – and this is just the beginning.”
Comcast Business and Xfinity Communities customers, including municipalities, commercial and residential properties, retailers, and fast-casual and quick-service restaurants (QSRs), can now take advantage of Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO's AI video analytics tools and cloud-based platform. These technologies transform video footage into data-driven insights to help businesses, retailers and communities increase security, optimize operations, improve service quality and reduce IT costs. Solutions are custom configured with Comcast Business connectivity, the nation's largest provider of giga-speed networks.
The Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO solution offers many benefits:
- Enhanced security and smart search: A cloud-based Video Management System (VMS) provides ingress and perimeter detection with real-time alerts for increased safety. Access remotely and search all recorded footage for people, vehicles, and objects using keywords in a simple search engine style experience.
● Data Privacy Compliance: No personal or unique identifying information is ever used for marketing or operational analytics, ensuring strict compliance with data privacy regulations. Additionally, clients can safely store all security-related video footage in the cloud with robust and redundant safeguards such as encryption and 24/7 monitoring, ensuring security, protection, and privacy. No personal or unique identifying information is ever captured, making privacy compliance easy.
● Cost reduction: Scalable cloud technology reduces or eliminates the need for physical hard drives or dedicated storage racks for video footage, and clients can often integrate the software with existing cameras to reduce costs.
● Gain a deeper understanding of your customer experience: It uses anonymous, AI-driven data on customer flows, product interactions, and transactions to provide strategic insights into customer behavior and actions to inform current performance and future actions.
Eagle Eye Networks simplifies AI video analytics and video footage management with secure cloud-based storage and an intuitive software platform. Their AI video analytics solutions effectively address security and operational challenges across multiple sites, while economically protecting data in your own data center.
What’s more, it can be integrated with existing camera infrastructure, saving costs and making it particularly suitable for local government, apartment complexes, commercial buildings, mixed-use buildings and their businesses.
“Business owners, smart cities and commercial facilities are increasingly turning to cloud video surveillance equipped with AI and video analytics for business intelligence and security. Eagle Eye Networks is pleased to partner with Comcast Smart Solutions to provide powerful video analytics tools that help make business more efficient and the world safer,” said Dean Drako, CEO and founder, Eagle Eye Networks.
C2RO complements this with advanced AI video analytics, enabling organisations to generate valuable data-driven insights that inform critical business decisions.
C2RO's proprietary technology provides in-depth, accurate learning about specific customer behaviors while prioritizing anonymity and compliance with strict data privacy regulations. Whether organizations are focused on increasing customer engagement, streamlining operations or preventing in-store theft, C2RO's unique solutions address challenges across a wide range of industry sectors, including retail, shopping centers and hospitality.
“We are extremely proud and excited to partner with Comcast Smart Solutions and Eagle Eye Networks to expand the reach of our AI-based analytics and anti-theft software solutions within Comcast Business and Xfinity Communities,” said Riccardo Badalone, CEO of C2RO. “Customers will directly benefit from the combined resources and highly complementary solutions of our three organizations, enabling them to maximize the benefits of AI-driven video analytics solutions.”
Comcast Business and Xfinity Communities customers looking to re-evaluate and enhance their video surveillance and analytics systems for maximum effectiveness can now take advantage of Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO video analytics solutions. To learn more about Smart Video Analytics and Comcast Smart Solutions, visit smartsolutions.comcast.com.
