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Innovative Video Analytics Improve Security, Safety, Environmental Health, and Urban Mobility

New York, NY (November 22, 2022) – viisights, Inc., a global leader in behavioral recognition video analytics that deliver real-time video intelligence, is rapidly increasing its dominance within the video analytics market for smart cities with its Wise™ product offering for public security, safety, environmental health, and urban mobility. viisights’ innovative behavioral recognition video understanding technology adds AI-driven intelligence to existing security cameras to automatically detect developing safety and security risks and raise near real-time alarms, thus making smart cities smarter. This equates to added value in the form of enhanced operational efficiencies, improved quality of life for residents, and safer, healthier, and more secure environments.

“viisights’ analytics are already being used in some of the world’s largest smart cities, including Jerusalem, known for being one of the most culturally significant and sensitive cities in the world,” said Asaf Birenzvieg, CEO, viisights. “Our success in such cities is just a testament to how our solutions can help cities of all sizes improve their public safety, security, and economic development initiatives.”

viisights long list of deployments is a testament to their success and effectiveness. Within Israel alone, viisights was selected by more than a dozen cities of various sizes, including not only Jerusalem, but also Ashdod (the fourth largest city in Israel), Eilat, Ramat Hasharon, Bear Yacov, Lod, and others. Outside of Israel, viisights has been selected for helping address challenging urban situations including León (the fourth largest city in Mexico), refugee camps in Greece, and others.

The viisights’ Wise solution provides intelligent real-time video analytics to identify violent activity, suspicious activity, crowd behavior, traffic monitoring, urban mobility, environmental safety, and more. Through a combination of advanced AI, machine learning, and deep learning, viisights behavioral recognition video analytics alert authorities when and if a threat is imminent or to a situation that requires immediate attention. This level of automated video intelligence is a game-changer for smart cities as a means to reduce crime and use city resources more efficiently.

Looking toward the future, Israel’s Ministry of Public Security has chosen viisights’ behavioral recognition video analytics technology to promote the country’s “City Without Violence” initiative. Companies submitting video system bids within municipalities are encouraged to include viisights’ technology. This is just one example of how viisights continues to support its goal of providing highly pragmatic, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to make video systems smarter and proactive with behavioral recognition video analytics.