AI Data Collect is a self-hosted, enterprise-grade metadata ingest platform for AI-capable IP cameras — deployable in the regulated, air-gapped, bandwidth-constrained environments where every other VMS falls short.
Every VMS on the market is built around video pipelines — RTSP streams, NVR storage, GPU farms, cloud transcoding, and retention windows measured in days. That architecture fails the industries that need analytics most.
Streaming video over satellite uplinks, cellular failover, or regulated industrial LANs is impractical or forbidden. Traditional VMS dies here.
One week of 4K video storage would fill the space a full year of analytics requires. Retention becomes a hardware problem instead of a policy knob.
Video triggers extensive legal review in banking, cannabis, corrections, and government. Privacy regulations block deployment before it starts.
Cloud-first VMS cannot operate in air-gapped networks, government-restricted environments, or facilities with zero outbound internet policy.
ADC doesn't compete with your VMS — it fills the gaps your VMS was never designed to reach.
| Capability | ❌ Traditional VMS | ✅ AI Data Collect |
|---|---|---|
| Video-free operation | ✗ Requires video pipeline | ✓ Metadata only, no video |
| Air-gap / no internet | ✗ Cloud-dependent | ✓ Zero outbound internet required |
| Low bandwidth deployment | ✗ High bandwidth required | ✓ Works on satellite & cellular |
| 1-year analytics storage | ✗ 7–30 days of video | ✓ Years of events, minimal storage |
| Privacy-safe for regulated sites | ✗ Video triggers legal review | ✓ No video, no privacy minefield |
| On-premise deployment | ✗ Often cloud-first | ✓ Self-hosted, customer-owned box |
| NDAA/TAA compliance path | ✗ Often not supported | ✓ Built-in compliance posture |
| GPU requirement | ✗ GPU farm required | ✓ No GPU needed — camera does the AI |
ADC ingests structured metadata directly from the camera's onboard AI — not the video stream. The result is a platform that runs where nothing else can.
Metadata packets are tiny. ADC runs on industrial LANs, cellular failover, and satellite uplinks — anywhere streaming video would be impractical, cost-prohibitive, or outright forbidden by policy.
A full year of structured event analytics fits where one week of 4K video would. 30/60/90-day retention is a configuration knob, not a hardware procurement project.
No video means no privacy minefield. Banks, schools, cannabis operators, corrections facilities, and government sites deploy ADC without the legal review that video systems trigger at every step.
Designed to run with zero outbound internet. Internal certificate authority, Fernet-encrypted credentials at rest, TLS everywhere, and offline license activation in the roadmap.
ADC sits between your existing AI cameras and your operations team — no new hardware, no video, no cloud.
Your existing Hanwha, Axis, or Bosch AI-capable IP cameras detect events onboard — line crossings, occupancy, queues, heatmaps — using their built-in AI chip. No GPU server needed.
ADC ingests structured metadata via MQTT (live streaming) and SFTP (scheduled statistical reports). Events are processed, validated, and persisted to TimescaleDB on your hardware — zero video, zero cloud.
Your team accesses real-time monitoring, occupancy analytics, alert management, heatmaps, and daily intelligence reports through a secure, role-based React portal — all running on your network.
Everything below is production-ready today — not a roadmap item, not a beta feature. This is what you get in a POC.
ADC ships with configuration presets for 11 industries across 4 operational buckets — each calibrated for the specific metadata events, compliance pressures, and operational realities of that vertical.
The platform is production-ready today. Here's what's coming next — all designed around real operational needs from our target verticals.
Hybrid online/offline activation with a vendor-run license portal — designed for air-gapped environments where offline activation is mandatory.
Axis and Bosch Camera Driver Packs expanding compatibility beyond Hanwha — covering the most widely deployed AI camera brands in enterprise environments.
One login across 30+ sites. Each box remains fully self-sufficient if the hub goes offline — critical for multi-location regulated deployments.
Genetec, Milestone, and Hanwha WAVE webhook integrations. ADC stays the analytics brain — your existing VMS stays the video layer. Best of both worlds.
Per-industry ISO images, appliance images, and cloud-marketplace AMIs for simplified deployment across all target verticals and environments.
A publicly accessible supported-cameras directory and integrator compatibility website — making it easy for system integrators to spec ADC into new deployments.
We're accepting a limited number of POC deployments across our target verticals. A POC gives you a full production install of AI Data Collect running on your hardware, connected to your cameras, processing your data.