Conventional security systems are no longer suitable for today’s conditions, according to Neurala, a company that provides Artificial Intelligence to cameras and other devices.
Conventional security systems are no longer suitable for today’s conditions, according to Neurala, a company that provides Artificial Intelligence to cameras and other devices.
“Traditional pre-trained security systems do not have the flexibility to adapt to changing situations and local environments,” said Roger Matus, VP of Products and Markets at Neurala. "The Neurala Brain’s deep learning neural networks are a type of artificial intelligence that can be taught."
The Boston-based company initially ventured into the field by designing AI for a NASA project for autonomous planetary exploration. This was done by creating something called The Neurala Brain, which is basically a software that is based on the way brains work in nature.
After recognizing the product’s broader applications, the company began to offer it commercially. A camera or a device with a camera can become a smarter security platform with The Neurala Brain artificial intelligence software.
“The Neurala Brain learns people and objects – both in advance and on-the-fly. It can then find, recognize and track these learned people and objects,” Matus said.
Neurala’s deep learning neural networks technology uses proprietary set of algorithms to emulate, in software, the way biological brains control sensing, cognitive processing, spatial awareness, navigation and motor control, the company explains.
A key element of Neurala’s technology is centered on running artificial neural networks and deep networks on graphic processing units. “Deep (Neural) Networks are algorithms whose execution and training methods are highly conducive to parallelism," the company explains on its website. “While CPU are designed to have a few cores optimized for sequential serial processing, GPUs have been built by design as massively parallel processors consisting of thousands of smaller cores which are best at handling multiple tasks simultaneously.”
“The Neurala Brain is real artificial intelligence that can learn and recognize arbitrary objects,” Matus said “Need to know if a person enters a scene? Need to recognize license plates? Need to look for a specific type of car? Want a robot or drone to follow an object? The Neurala Brain can be taught to do these things.”
And how can systems integrators take advantage of this? Matus said SIs can provide truly customized solutions to their clients and charge for the services that create a better solution.