Do we need to replace our CCTV cameras to use AI video analytics?
No, in almost all cases. AKCS Vision reads your existing IP cameras over RTSP, and your video stays on your recorder.
Do we need to replace our CCTV cameras to use AI video analytics?
No, in almost all cases. AKCS Vision connects to the IP cameras you already have, over their RTSP stream. Most IP cameras installed in the last few years can send a live stream over your network, which is what Vision needs from each camera.
Brand and installer do not matter. What matters is that each camera hands over a live RTSP stream on your local network, and that it is pointed at something worth analysing. The free camera audit tells you which of yours are ready.
Does our video leave the property?
No. Your video stays on your recorder, and no live or recorded video is uploaded. Still pictures, not video, go to our servers in India. Your existing NVR keeps doing whatever it already does with recordings.
AKCS deploys and manages a small box in your server room as part of rollout, and Vision needs a steady broadband connection. It is not something your committee has to specify, buy, or maintain.
What does AKCS Vision detect?
Detections come in four families, and we switch on the ones that fit your industry. Live means working today. In pilot means we set it up on your own cameras and tell you plainly whether it passes. Vision does not recognise faces.
| Family | Live today | In pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Perimeter and intrusion | Someone climbing over the compound wall or fence, or clearly getting in where they should not be | Someone hanging around at the boundary |
| People and safety | A person lying on the ground who does not get up, and clear fights | The moment of a fall, smaller scuffles and crowds. On industrial sites: helmets, safety gear, danger zones and forklift near-misses |
| Hazards | Visible flames and smoke, including places a smoke detector does not reach | Water leaks and flooding, and fire exits blocked by goods |
| Vehicles | Nothing yet | Number plate reading on entry cameras, checked against a list of approved plates you give us |
We set each camera up for the job it does. A basement ramp and a clubhouse lawn need different settings, and we choose them with you during setup.
What happens when the system detects something?
Vision saves the alert with a picture from the moments it analysed, the camera, the time, the type of event, a short description in plain words and a risk level from low to critical.
Each alert rings your team's phones in the guard app. Every alert also waits in the AKCS Vision dashboard, where your team can filter them by camera, type and risk, and open each one to see the picture and the description.
In the first few weeks our team tunes your site's settings with you, using your feedback.
Does it read number plates?
Yes, as a pilot at the gate. We set up number plate recognition on your entry cameras and prove it there before you rely on it.
What does the community have to provide?
A small server room, and network reach to your cameras. That is the whole list on your side.
- A lockable room. The Vision box and your existing NVR should sit behind a door only your management team can open.
- Cooling. The room needs to stay cool. A hot cupboard shortens the life of every piece of equipment in it, including the recorder you already own.
- Network. The Vision box must reach your cameras on the local network, and have a steady broadband connection.
- Power. A stable supply, ideally on the same backup that keeps your CCTV running through a cut.
If your CCTV already sits in a proper room today, you very likely need to change nothing.
What decides whether a camera works well?
Placement, height, angle, night lighting, and the state of the lens. AI does not rescue a badly installed camera. A camera that produces a poor picture for a human produces a poor picture for a model.
- Placement — a camera watching a wall detects nothing worth having.
- Height and angle — mounted too high and pointed too steeply down, you get the tops of heads. A person down, a fight or a wall climb all need to see a body, not a scalp.
- Night lighting — this is the most common weakness. A corner that is unusably dark at 1am will not produce reliable detections at 1am.
- Lens condition — dust, spider webs, water marks and haze on an old dome cover degrade everything downstream.
How do we find out if our cameras will work?
With a free hardware audit, before any quote. AKCS surveys your existing cameras, checks which ones expose a usable RTSP stream, and reports which positions are good, which need re-aiming, and which genuinely need replacement.
Re-aiming three or four cameras is cheap. Replacing a whole tower of them is not, and it is usually unnecessary. You get the assessment before we talk about price. Book a demo to arrange the audit, or see how pricing works.
Still stuck?
Email contact@shinraidynamics.com and a human replies within the same working day.