Actuate

What is Actuate?

Actuate sells AI video analytics delivered through a cloud platform. Its stated goal is to reduce false alarms and turn passive surveillance into proactive monitoring. The vendor claims a false positive reduction of more than 95 percent and lists over 1,000 customers.

Key capabilities of Actuate

• Gun detection: Flags visible firearms on camera feeds.
• Intruder detection: Alerts on unauthorized access.
• Crowd detection: Detects crowding and loitering.
• Camera health monitoring: Alerts on blur, tilt, obstruction and offline cameras.
• Real-time alerts: Notifications for threats such as unauthorized access and fire.
• Analytics and reporting: Trends and system performance.

How Actuate works

Actuate analyzes video from existing cameras using multiple AI models, which the vendor says reduces false positives compared with a single model. It integrates with existing systems without on-site hardware upgrades. Alerts go to monitoring staff so they can verify and respond.

Who uses Actuate?

Central monitoring stations, alarm receiving centers, global security operations centers and managed service providers. Industries include construction, schools, industrial facilities, hospitals and public spaces.

Actuate pricing

Pricing is organized into base subscriptions and specialty subscriptions, with a how-to-buy section. Dollar amounts are not shown publicly, so request a quote from the vendor.

Actuate alternatives

Matroid is a computer vision platform where teams build their own detectors, instead of buying a ready security product. Deepomatic provides computer vision for retail and industrial use cases. Amazon Rekognition is a general image and video analysis API that requires you to build the alerting workflow yourself.