Traditional vs. AI-Powered Investigations
From hours of manual scrubbing to minutes with AI-powered tools.
BEFORE
Traditional investigation workflow
- Hours of manual searching — investigators scrub camera-by-camera to find relevant footage.
Quickly find people or vehicles using freeform text such as:
- Difficult evidence packaging — clips are saved across different archives or drives.
- Footage stored on on-premise servers — often requires someone to export clips to a thumb drive and physically deliver them offsite for review.
AFTER
Faster, smarter, and built for real-time collaboration.
Powerful AI models deliver results to custom search queries in seconds.
- “person wearing gray jacket with hat”
- “forklift operator near loading dock”
- “blue sedan entering gate”
- “forklift operator near loading dock”
2. Use AI to build a timeline
AI-powered unified timeline reconstructs events across cameras, providing:
- A chronological, map-based view
- Automatic alignment without manual timestamp matching
- The ability to add sightings of an associated vehicle, including the license plate
3. Easily package an incident
With incident management, teams can:
- Consolidate related footage into a single digital case file
- Add notes, summaries, and contextual details
- Verkada Verify for video authenticity validation
- Download an evidence package
Investigations that once took hours can now take minutes.
At a glance
| Stage | Traditional workflow | Verkada AI-powered workflow |
|---|---|---|
| Search | Manual scrubbing across cameras | AI-powered natural-language search |
| Reconstruction | Manual timeline assembly | AI-powered unified timeline auto-stitches footage together |
| Analysis | Motion-only review | Advanced analytics, trajectories, attribute search |
| Evidence Management | Scattered clips | Centralized incident management |
| Reporting | Manual screenshots and documents | Auto-generated PDF reports |
| Response | Slow, reactive | Real-time AI alerts and rapid identification |
| Sharing | Hard to export or share | Securely share a link with internal teams or law enforcement in a few clicks |
Extend your investigation workflow directly to first responders.
IMPACT
A seamless pipeline from your cameras to the agencies responding in critical moments.
- Connect Verkada cameras to Fusus’ Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC)
- Provide law enforcement with live camera visibility