The Security Industry Is Being Shaped By How It Integrates AI, Drones, and Robotics

The adoption of, artificial intelligence and data driven analytics is huge. There's a there's at least twenty different analytics flavor that are out there now. And so everybody that has a, approach of a video management system is probably at least looking at how to adopt and utilize artificial intelligence. The way that we started, the presentation was to say, imagine it's GSX twenty twenty six, and this is just a look back now. Of all the things that you learned here and you did. And the core takeaways is really what we were talking about at the introduction, which is to become reasonably familiar with the emerging technologies that are available today. We used robots, drones, and artificial intelligence driven video analytics and other systems as our as examples, but there's certainly a lot more that if you're going to evaluate those technologies and potentially incorporate them, that the first most important thing is do the groundwork, become familiar with the technology, reasonably familiar with the technology, understand who the manufacturers are, what they're offering, but also do a lot of socialization and buying from your stakeholders critically because of the nature of these technologies. You're not adding a camera here and there. This is a brand new type of security application. And therefore, preparing your workforce, your executive leaders, and some of your specialists like HR, legal, and finance is critical in order for all this to be successful. So one of the, takeaways that we we had, which will answer this question, is around pain points. That you must understand what your organizational pain points from a security operations perspective is. And when you understand that, that begins to drive the trend about which particular technology that you're gonna look at. The we did a survey, of eight Sorry. Nine different organizations are prepared for this. And every one of them said with one exception that they have a chronic problem with guard availability and wallet. Right? So that's a trend outside of of emerging tech, but that emerging tech, can potentially solve. So looking at drones, especially every organization we spoke with, is looking at how to use drones in the security operation. There's still some pretty substantial hurdles to get through. You know, with FAA regulations and requirements, but those hurdles are coming down coupled by the driving need in the organization, to solve these chronic guard shortest issues. So that that's gonna be the the first one. The adoption of artificial intelligence and data driven analytics is huge. There's at least twenty different analytics flavor that are out there now And so everybody that has a, approach of a video management system is probably at least looking at how to adopt and utilize artificial intelligence. Those two things right there, drones for chronic guard shortages AI for video management system. The third one that we talked about was robotics that for indoor applications, especially humanoid fact form factor robots are very attractive to organizations because they solve the the guard problem, but also they have this sense of being a little bit more high-tech, a little bit more leading edge. And for a number of companies, especially ones that are in the high-tech business, that's an an appealing factor. That's a good question because, the success or failure of an emerging technology is going to be that preparing the groundwork that these technologies are not like just a camera, as I mentioned earlier. These are very sophisticated applications, and the planning for their operationalization needs to be rock solid. My advice, for instance, is Go ahead and review your organizational mission statement, the strategy that you wanna have to support, that you want the robots or drones to support, for example, but really then have a good technology management plan that says over the next three years, these are the things that we're going to do starting small, then, you know, crawl, do a little bit of the walking, but crawl, walk, run, you've gotta define what that is. Do not go into this, with happenstance or let's, let's find out if we can use it. Be very thoughtful in your planning. The other critical strategy I always recommend now is do some work with the the integrator. In this case, to lay out what success looks like. Success has got to be defined by the organized security organization, but it's got a map over to your various stakeholders. Success for legal is not gonna you what's gonna be success for the security guard. Identify all those things and make sure that your strategy has line of sight back to all your stakeholder expectations. Do that. You are halfway home.