Quickly Identify and React to Incidents of Interest with AI-Powered Activity Detection Alerts
Colter Nunn
Technical Marketing Engineer
Verkada makes it easy to get alerted when a certain event takes place - whether a person of interest is detected on a camera or a license plate of interest is captured. But in some situations, it’s not the presence of a person or vehicle that matters, but the type of activity that is taking place. For example, you probably don’t want to get alerted when a group of people are walking through a store, but you do want to get alerted if one of those people slips and falls on a wet floor.
To support these use cases, we are excited to introduce AI-powered activity detection alerts. To begin, organizations can set alerts on two types of activity:
Individuals climbing over a fence, gate, or wall. This alert is particularly helpful for perimeter protection where nearby motion is common.
Individuals falling. This alert can help retailers, manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and others increase safety and strengthen liability protection.
To support this new feature, our in-house team of AI and computer vision engineers has built and trained a video-based model designed to recognize specific types of activity. Rather than analyzing a single frame of footage - which is how our cameras identify a person or vehicle - this model ties multiple frames together to identify the action taking place in the camera’s field of view. AI-powered activity detection alerts leverage the computing power available on Verkada’s third-generation devices to accurately identify relevant events with minimal latency, delivering near real-time notifications to system users.
Availability
AI-powered activity detection alerts will be available on select 4K and fisheye model cameras beginning October 9, 2025; availability on additional cameras will follow shortly.*
To get a personalized demo or free trial, contact your Verkada sales representative or email [email protected].
*Models supported on October 9 include: CD63/E, CY63-E, CH63-E, and CF83-E. Models to follow will include: CD43/E, CD53/E, CY53-E, and CH53-E.
