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Apps · Kognition People
Turn every camera into an intelligent sensor
Kognition People uses advanced neural networks to detect, count, and track every person in your facility — in real time. Understand occupancy, detect anomalies, and respond to incidents before they escalate.
The problem
Cameras that watch but don’t think
Most organizations have hundreds of security cameras — but nobody watching them. Studies show that a guard monitoring a video wall loses effective attention after just 20 minutes. That means your cameras are recording, but not protecting.
When something happens — a crowd forming in a restricted area, someone loitering after hours, a queue growing dangerously long — your team finds out from the footage review, not from a real-time alert. By then, it’s too late.
How it works
AI-powered person detection on your existing cameras
Kognition People layers AI-powered person detection and analytics on top of your existing camera infrastructure. No new hardware. No rip-and-replace. Just intelligence.
Highly accurate person detection
- Real-time detection — identify and track individuals across multiple camera feeds simultaneously, even in crowded environments.
- Works in challenging conditions — accurate in low light, adverse weather, occlusion, and at varying distances.
- Multi-camera tracking — follow a person’s path across your facility as they move from one camera view to another, without requiring facial recognition.
Intelligent alerting
- Perimeter crossing alerts — define virtual tripwires and zones; get notified instantly when someone enters a restricted area, crosses a fence line, or approaches a sensitive entrance.
- After-hours activity detection — know immediately when someone is in your building after everyone should be gone.
- Long line / crowd alerts — automatically detect when queues or crowds exceed your defined thresholds — critical for retail, healthcare, and public venues.
- Loitering detection — flag individuals lingering in sensitive areas like loading docks, server rooms, or building perimeters beyond a set time.
Behavior & pose intelligence
- Human pose estimation — detect unusual body postures that may indicate a fall, altercation, or medical emergency — without requiring the person to wear a device.
- Behavioral analysis — identify patterns like pacing, erratic movement, or running that may indicate distress or a security threat.
- Slip-and-fall detection — especially valuable for healthcare facilities and senior living communities where rapid response to falls saves lives.
Occupancy & analytics
- Real-time people counting — know exactly how many people are in any zone, floor, or building at any moment.
- Occupancy compliance — automatically enforce fire code and capacity limits; get alerts before you exceed thresholds, not after.
- Traffic flow analysis — understand how people move through your spaces; identify bottlenecks, underutilized areas, and peak traffic times.
- Engagement analytics — for retail and commercial spaces, measure dwell time, visit frequency, and movement patterns to optimize layouts and operations.
- Historical reporting — generate daily, weekly, and monthly reports on occupancy trends, peak hours, and traffic patterns to inform staffing and operational decisions.
Integration
Works with your existing infrastructure
No proprietary hardware requirements — Kognition People plugs into the cameras, VMS, and systems you already run.
- Any IP camera — works with Axis, Hanwha, Avigilon, Bosch, and other ONVIF-compatible cameras
- VMS integration — plugs into Genetec Security Center, Milestone XProtect, and other leading video management systems
- Edge or cloud deployment — process on-premise for maximum privacy, or use the cloud for multi-site management
- Open API — feed people counting data and alerts into your BMS, PSIM, or custom dashboards
Use cases
Who uses Kognition People?
Commercial real estate
Track building occupancy in real time across lobbies, common areas, and parking garages. Provide tenants with occupancy data. Optimize HVAC and lighting based on actual presence — not schedules.
Education
Monitor hallways, cafeterias, and outdoor areas for unauthorized individuals, loitering, and crowd formation. Get alerts when students are in areas they shouldn’t be, when they should be in class.
Healthcare
Detect patient falls in real time. Monitor waiting room congestion. Track unauthorized access to restricted areas like pharmacies, NICUs, and operating suites. Ensure compliance with room occupancy limits.
Retail
Count customers, measure dwell time, analyze traffic patterns, and optimize store layouts. Correlate foot traffic with sales data to understand conversion rates by zone and time of day.
Industrial & warehouses
Enforce safety zone compliance. Detect when workers enter hazardous areas without authorization. Monitor lone workers and trigger alerts if a fall or injury is detected.
Every demanding industry
From data centers to stadiums — see how Kognition People fits your environment.
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The difference
More than counting — true situational awareness
| Capability | Basic counters | Kognition People |
|---|---|---|
| Detection accuracy | IR beam / basic CV | Deep neural networks |
| Multi-camera tracking | No | Yes — across facility |
| Behavior analysis | Not available | Pose, loitering, falls |
| Alerts & automation | Threshold only | Zone, behavior, schedule |
| Hardware required | Dedicated sensors | Your existing cameras |
See what your cameras have been missing
Get a live demo of Kognition People using your own camera feeds. See real-time detection, counting, and alerting — all running on the cameras you already own.
Kognition People is the foundation of our video analytics platform, and works alongside Kognition Watchlist, Kognition Threats, and Kognition Vehicles to deliver complete smart building security.