RESPOND · ALERTS & THREAT DETECTION
Know what matters, the second it matters.
Sentinel watches every camera and surfaces only what needs a human — a watchlist subject is on the operator’s screen in seconds. Every decision is reasoned, timed, and audited.
Click to enlargeSub-5-second watchlist alerts · A live threat picture for the whole room · Every override audited.
The right face, the right plate, in seconds.
Add a subject to a watchlist and Sentinel surfaces the alert — with camera, location, time, and match confidence — fast enough to act on while it’s still happening.
- Face and plate — alert on a person of interest or a vehicle/plate, across every camera at once
- Sub-5-second design-target path from detection to the operator’s screen
- Match confidence shown — the operator sees how sure the match is, never a bare yes/no
- Stacked alert queue — top alert in full; the rest collapse into "+N more"
- Act in place — View Event jumps to the clip; Track Person drops the subject on the Command Center map
- Live monitoring chip — a constant, honest signal that the watch is active
Click to enlargeThe hit finds the operator — not the other way around.
One dial tells the room how tense the last six hours have been.
Thousands of detections distilled into a single, instantly readable indicator so a glance answers the only question a supervisor really has: is now a normal shift, or not?
- Five levels — LOW through CRITICAL, color-coded, persistent across every page
- Weighted scoring — watchlist hits, weapon detections, loitering, crowd, and anomalies each carry their own weight
- Time decay — older events fade out of the rolling window so the dial doesn’t stay hot on stale activity
- Trend at a glance — a rising / steady / falling arrow plus a six-hour sparkline beside the score
- Recalculates on ingest — the dial updates as each event lands, no manual refresh needed
Click to enlargeFive levels, auto-computed, recalculated on every event.
Decide what fires, what’s reviewed, and what’s just noise.
A three-tier confidence policy per detection type means the room sees only matches it can trust — high-confidence alerts, mid-confidence to review, the rest dismissed.
- Three tiers per detection type — auto-alert (high confidence) · send to review (mid) · dismiss (below threshold)
- Per-type control — face, plate, and other detection types each get their own policy
- Confidence always visible — events carry their match confidence so operators prioritize the strongest matches first
- Honest by design — a platform-wide confidence floor backs the face-pattern math; raising or lowering it is a deliberate, audited change
Click to enlargeTune what fires per detection type — without touching a global dial that hides data.
Human judgment outranks the algorithm — and leaves a record.
Command staff can pin the dial to a level by hand — but never silently: every override carries a required reason, an expiry, and a full audit record.
- Pin the level — raise or lower the threat picture when command judgment supersedes the score
- Reason required — no override without a written justification
- Time-bound — set a duration (minutes to hours); the dial auto-reverts to the computed level on expiry
- Fully audited — who overrode, to what level, why, and for how long — all recorded and replayable
Click to enlargeEvery override reasoned, time-bound, and written to the audit trail.
More detection capabilities
The full alerting picture.
Real-time alert banner
High-priority events ride the top of every operations screen — a stacked priority queue with the most urgent shown first and "+N more" behind it. Sound notification on a new alert (toggleable per operator). View Event and Track Person are built into the banner itself.
Instant escalation
Most of the time the threat picture should rise gradually. Some situations shouldn’t. Escalation rules let high-severity conditions push the posture immediately — bypassing the rolling score so a confirmed weapon alert or a cluster of watchlist hits lands as CRITICAL the instant it’s confirmed.
Counter-surveillance detection
A deterministic detector for subjects whose movement matches a reconnaissance pattern — a doubleback (A → B → A) or repeated loitering. Detections collect in a quiet inbox with severity sort, Acknowledge / Dismiss / Trace / Mute lifecycle, and full trigger-event citations.
Weapon detection
Weapon alerting is Beta — human-in-the-loop, multi-frame confirmed, never autonomous. A detection must persist across several consecutive frames before an alert fires. An operator must confirm or dismiss every weapon alert. No autonomous escalation.
How it works
From a detection to a decision.
Detect
An on-site AI agent processes each camera locally — faces, plates, people, vehicles, behavior, and the weapon signal (Beta) — each detection carrying a type, a confidence, and a timestamp.
Filter
Confidence thresholds decide what’s worth a human: high-confidence matches alert, mid-confidence ones go to review, the rest are dismissed — so the room isn’t drowned in noise.
Surface
A watchlist match raises the banner in seconds and sounds the room; the threat dial reweighs the last six hours and updates on its own. Serious conditions escalate the posture immediately.
Decide and account
The operator confirms, traces, or dismisses. Any manual override of the posture carries a reason, an expiry, and an audit record. Nothing acts on its own.
Under the hood
Specifications
| Watchlist alert types | Face (person of interest) and vehicle/plate, across all cameras in the deployment |
| Alert latency | Sub-5-second design target from detection to operator screen (sized per deployment on reference hardware) |
| Threat levels | 5 — LOW · GUARDED · ELEVATED · HIGH · CRITICAL, color-coded |
| Threat scoring | Weighted across the last 6 hours (watchlist hits, weapons, loitering, crowd, anomalies), with time decay; recalculates on event ingest |
| Threat indicators | Rising / steady / falling trend arrow + 6-hour sparkline; persistent banner on every operations page and the Command Wall |
| Escalation | Condition-based rules that immediately set the posture, ahead of the rolling score |
| Manual override | Reason required, configurable duration (minutes to hours), auto-reverts to computed level on expiry, fully audited |
| Confidence policy | 3-tier per detection type (auto-alert / review / dismiss); platform-wide confidence floor MATCH_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD (default 0.6); deliberate, audited config change |
| Alert banner | Stacked priority queue, "+N more" expander, toggleable sound (respects quiet / reduced-motion), per-alert dismiss, live monitoring chip |
| Weapon alert (Beta) | Multi-frame confirmation (default 5 frames), higher confidence threshold (default 0.65), human confirmation required, no autonomous action |
| Counter-surveillance | Deterministic doubleback (A → B → A within 30 min) + repeated-loitering rules; trigger-event citations; ack / dismiss / trace / mute lifecycle; 90-day per-subject history |
| Accountability | Operator actions and overrides audited; operator session capture & replay for after-action review |
| Scale | 1–5,000 cameras per deployment; alert, threat, and counter-surveillance queries scale-tested at 1.2M+ events with covering indexes |
Underlying detection technology is detailed on the AI Vision Pipeline page. Performance figures reflect design targets on reference hardware; we’ll size your deployment with you.
Explore Respond & Investigate
Alerts feed the rest of the platform.
Command Center
One map of every camera with the threat dial, the live event feed, and AI recommendations for what needs attention now — the operator’s working console that the alert banner rides on.
Learn moreMission Live Board
When an alert becomes an incident, the whole team works one live map together — shared pins, chat, PTZ locks — and an evidence-ready case file assembles itself on close.
Learn moreSOC Command Wall
The same threat bar and alert rail live on the wall, so the whole room reads the posture without anyone touching a screen.
Learn moreSee an alert turn into a decision.
Request demo access and we’ll send you a private, pre-loaded environment — take a live watchlist hit, watch the threat dial climb on its own, tune what fires, override the posture with a reason, and see counter-surveillance detection light up on a moving subject.