# 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.

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## 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