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Ambient.ai, the pioneer in Agentic Physical Security, announced the general availability of Ambient Pulsar, its most advanced AI engine yet. Built on Ambient's edge-optimized reasoning Vision-Language Model (VLM) architecture, Pulsar represents a quantum leap forward that transforms physical security from reactive response to proactive incident prevention. Physical security use cases Pulsar is engineered to reason like a human security operator, only at accelerated machine speed and scale. Trained from more than one million hours of ethically sourced enterprise video, Pulsar is the largest and most capable purpose-built vision-language model ever deployed in physical security, processing over 500,000 hours each day. It delivers frontier-model reasoning performance that exceeds OpenAI GPT-5 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro in physical security use cases, at up to 50× higher efficiency, bringing true agentic AI to enterprise scale across thousands of cameras running 24/7. New benchmark for intelligent, autonomous security operations "With Pulsar, Ambient.ai has built what every enterprise security pioneer has been waiting for: an AI that's not just fast, but intelligent," said Cary Monbarren, Senior Director, Corporate Security at SentinelOne. "This platform is transforming how GSOCs operate, drastically reducing manual triage and response times." With this launch, Ambient.ai also introduces a suite of platform innovations, including the Agentic Video Wall, Activity Notifications, and Semantic Search, setting a new benchmark for intelligent, autonomous security operations. "Pulsar marks the beginning of a new era for physical security—one where AI doesn't just detect, but truly understands and acts," said Shikhar Shrestha, CEO and co-founder of Ambient.ai. "This release turns every camera, every sensor, and every SOC into an intelligent agent capable of reasoning, prioritizing, and responding in real time." The new core of Ambient intelligence: Pulsar Pulsar is Ambient.ai's next-generation Vision Language Model (VLM)—a fully agentic, open-set model that's been purpose-built for physical security. Unlike legacy deep-learning detectors or CLIP-based analytics, Pulsar operates continuously at the edge, combining visual perception, semantic understanding, and autonomous reasoning for unmatched real-world performance. Key breakthroughs include: Always-On Edge Reasoning: By running perception at the edge, inference happens where the data originates, reducing cloud cost, latency, and bandwidth constraints. Open-Set Detection: Pulsar recognizes an infinite variety of behaviors and threats, even those never explicitly trained, from unauthorized access and tailgating to emerging anomaly patterns. Contextual Intent Recognition: By fusing language and vision, Pulsar understands why something matters—distinguishing benign activity from genuine risk. Scalable Agentic Autonomy: With reasoning distributed across edge appliances, Pulsar powers multi-site environments for true real-time awareness at enterprise scale. Edge-Optimized Architecture: Pulsar's perception runs on Ambient.ai's edge appliance, an on-premises compact compute node powered by the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure, enabling parallel inference across dozens of live video streams. Pulsar in action: The capabilities defining agentic physical security Powered by Pulsar, Ambient.ai is introducing a suite of breakthrough capabilities that chart the industry's path toward Agentic Physical Security. Launching now: Agentic Video Walls: They create a living, adaptive security operations center, turning static feeds into a dynamic system that highlights the streams with the most interesting activity, delivering focused situational awareness. Activity Notifications: Operators define custom events or scenes using open-set, natural-language input, enabling the system to proactively deliver context-aware notifications of everyday events in real time. Semantic Search: Operators can query their video archive just by asking questions, transforming hours of footage review into instantaneous insight. Early preview: Agentic Investigations: Transforms how security teams uncover the truth. Operators can ask an outcome-oriented question—"Tell me what led to the fire?"—and Ambient.ai instantly assembles a complete incident timeline using all its tools at its disposal, including Semantic Search, Similarity Search, License Plate Recognition, and more. Custom Threat Assessment: Enables adaptive threat assessment through natural-language input. Security teams can dynamically calibrate alert severity to scene specific criteria. A platform built for the agentic era The Pulsar release reinforces Ambient.ai's vision of Agentic Physical Security—a new approach where intelligent systems augment human operators to prevent incidents, not just record them. The Ambient.ai platform now unifies monitoring, threat assessment, access intelligence, investigations, and response under a single AI brain. Ambient.ai's enterprise customers, including Fortune 100 pioneers in technology, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, pharma and critical infrastructure, are already realizing measurable impact with as much as 95% false-alarm reduction, 80% of alerts resolved in under one minute, and millions saved annually in operational efficiency. With Pulsar as the core of the Ambient Intelligence engine, Ambient.ai is redefining what's possible in enterprise protection, creating a security system that not only understands what it sees, flagging precursors to risks to enable true prevention, but also orchestrates response and investigation autonomously to minimize potential impact. Online keynote details and registration Now at 10:00 a.m. PST, Ambient.ai will host an online keynote unveiling Pulsar in detail, including live demonstrations of each new capability.

LenelS2, the global pioneer in advanced security systems and services, will showcase new and upcoming innovations that have been developed with customers in mind, with a focus on cloud-solution enhancements at the annual International Security Conference & Exposition (ISC West 2024), in Las Vegas on April 9 - 12. LenelS2 is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, a global pioneer in intelligent climate and energy solutions. OnGuard Cloud Highlights at ISC West will include a deep dive into OnGuard Cloud, an enterprise cloud solution providing all the features and functionality of LenelS2’s OnGuard® platform, one of the industry’s most widely used, deeply integrated, and feature-rich access control systems. Already deployed to early adoption customers, OnGuard Cloud provides customers the benefit of cloud scalability with the full functional capabilities and integrations of its existing OnGuard on-premises solution, with 24/7 operational monitoring and support. Secure cloud hosting solutions LenelS2 and AWS experts will be on-site to speak with customers who are considering moving to the cloud LenelS2 partners with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an industry pioneer in reliable, secure cloud hosting solutions, to help deliver cloud deployment options for OnGuard. LenelS2 and AWS experts will be on-site at ISC West to speak with customers considering moving to a cloud-based or hybrid solution. BlueDiamond™ experience During the event, live demonstrations of the BlueDiamond™ experience with the Employee Badge in Apple Wallet will also be showcased throughout LenelS2’s booth. This recently launched solution offers the security industry’s first full-stack, comprehensive NFC solution from a single provider, including access control, readers and credential issuance, and management, pioneering a range of value-added benefits such as faster customer implementation, lower total cost of ownership, and a more integrated, easy-to-use experience. OnGuard®, NetBox™ , and Elements™  LenelS2 will showcase recent and upcoming enhancements to core product lines, including its OnGuard®, NetBox™, and Elements™ platforms. Releasing in July 2024, OnGuard v8.3 further advances the transformation of the OnGuard UI to a browser-based environment. Additionally, version 8.3 further enhances and tightens the robust integration between Milestone and OnGuard, including integrated Milestone support content within the OnGuard UI, enhanced Event Video support, and streamlined camera licensing for Milestone-supported cameras. OnGuard version 8.3 also introduces Reader Lockdown Groups, allowing the creation and management of logical groups of readers within the OnGuard system to activate or release a lockdown easily. NetBox v6.0 is expected later this year and includes a new user navigation experience, reporting and cybersecurity enhancements, and NFC mobile credential support for Employee Badge in Apple Wallet. Recent updates to the Elements platform, LenelS2’s native cloud solution, include expanded video capabilities with the Milestone XProtect VMS integration, cybersecurity enhancements, and additional deployment options that allow customers to leverage existing hardware investments as they transition to the cloud. “As the global pioneer in access control technology, our primary focus is continuous innovation aimed at enriching our customers’ and value-added resellers (VARs) experiences, fostering business success, and securing the well-being of our communities,” said Kumar Sokka, Global President, LenelS2. Increasing people, assets, and places security LenelS2 will also showcase a range of innovations that empower users to leverage complex security data “Expanding our portfolio with AI and cloud technologies enables us to drive lower cost of ownership, simplify system maintenance, increase customized reporting capabilities, and greatly enhance the overall security of the people, assets, and places where we live, work, and thrive.” LenelS2 will also showcase a range of innovations currently in development that empower users to leverage complex security data through simple tools, providing greater efficiency and streamlined operations, including the LenelS2 Partner Marketplace portal which enables customers to search and discover new ecosystem add-ons. AI-based tools Additionally, LenelS2 will showcase AI-based tools that undertake sophisticated vetting of personnel to make informed access decisions, chatbots that expedite on-demand documentation searches and reports (as well as initiate actions), and cloud-based services that optimize maintenance operations by saving time, reducing expenses, and improving the spend of applying enhancements. Conference guests will also have the opportunity to speak with six members of LenelS2's OpenAccess Alliance Program (OAAP) who will have demo kiosks within the booth including Alutel Mobility, Ambient.ai, Idemia, Inex Technology, Splan, and Zenitel.

Allegion Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Allegion plc has made a $20 million investment in Ambient.ai, the artificial intelligence (AI) powered computer vision intelligence (CVI) company that’s transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. Developing seamless access Based in San Jose, California, Ambient.ai applies AI and CVI to existing security camera infrastructure allowing their platform to deliver near human-level visual perception that analyzes actions and situational context to create efficient and accurate threat detection. Allegion President and CEO John H. Stone said Ambient.ai aligns with Allegion’s focus on using innovative technology to enable seamless access and a safer world. Reduce false alarms This is the largest and most significant investment in the history of Allegion Ventures, reflecting the tremendous potential" “This is the largest and most significant investment in the history of Allegion Ventures, reflecting the tremendous potential we see for future collaboration between Ambient.ai and Allegion,” Stone said.  “Allegion’s connected hardware manages access and entry points, while Ambient’s platform provides contextual understanding to dramatically reduce false alarms in access control systems and vastly improve threat detection and response.” Improving threat detection Allegion Ventures President Rob Martens, who also serves as chief innovation and design officer at Allegion, emphasized that Ambient.ai is a true innovator in the marketplace. Martens will serve as a board observer for Ambient.ai. “We are thrilled to work with Ambient.ai. Shikhar and Vikesh are trailblazers in CVI and truly understand how technology can advance threat detection as well as safe access, people movement, and data analytics,” Martens said. Proactive security technology They’re moving video surveillance from a reactive to a proactive resource, meeting evolving customer needs" “They’re moving video surveillance from a reactive to a proactive resource, meeting evolving customer needs in physical security.” Ambient.ai was founded in 2017 by CEO Shikhar Shrestha and Chief Technology Officer Vikesh Khanna, experts in artificial intelligence and deep learning, who shared a vision of making security proactive through technology. AI platform “As we kickstart this transformative partnership with Allegion, we’re propelled by our vision of a powerful AI platform, built on seamless integrations with pioneering security technologies,” Shrestha said. “Allegion’s best-in-class products bring exciting possibilities to the table as we continue to deliver compelling solutions to prevent even the most complex security incidents.” Additional terms of the Allegion Ventures deal have not been disclosed.