Remote Video Monitoring firm Stealth Monitoring has been acquired. Here’s what it means for the future of physical security.
The security firm Stealth Monitoring has been acquired by one of the world’s most extensive guard providers, GardaWorld. The acquisition goes beyond a headline-grabbing business move. It validates the potential for remote video monitoring to replace or augment traditional security, sending a clear signal for industry leaders to take notice.
This acquisition confirms the potential for remote video monitoring to upend traditional security.
Stealth Monitoring has built a recurring $100M+ business by monitoring other people’s video feeds for crimes. This is a new and exciting category within the security industry called “Remote Video Monitoring” or RVM.
Until recently, businesses had few options for securing their property: they could hire an on-site security guard, install a security camera system, or use a traditional alarm system.
But businesses quickly discover that none of these options offer the solution they’re looking for:
- On-site security guards provide a proactive approach to crime prevention, but often at an unsustainable price tag.
- Standard surveillance systems provide evidence for law enforcement when crimes occur, but do little to actually prevent those crimes.
- Traditional alarms, with a staggering 95%+ false alarm rate, often lead to delayed or non-existent police responses, rendering them ineffective in timely crime prevention.
RVM offers a new approach with better outcomes. Here’s how it works: The system streams video feeds to a remote location where trained personnel monitor and deter suspicious activities, without the high cost of on-site guards.
Stealth Monitoring’s reported acquisition price, which is believed to be in the range of $500 to $750 million, underscores the market’s faith in remote video monitoring security solutions – a 5–7x annual revenue multiple.
This acquisition is only the most recent in a series of investments in tech-enabled security solutions. It also comes at a time when crime is becoming more sophisticated and pervasive, underscoring the need for advanced prevention strategies.
In other words, buckle up — because Remote Video Monitoring security is gaining momentum fast.
Security firms who integrate AI into remote video monitoring will be the ones to thrive in this new era of security.
The acquisition isn’t just a milestone for Stealth Monitoring. It’s a strong signal of opportunity for all tech-focused security firms — especially those who invest in AI.
Remote video monitoring on its own solves many problems of traditional security methods, but there’s still room for improvement. For instance, it allows for real-time surveillance and timely response to potential threats. But its effectiveness is limited by reliance on human operators, who are susceptible to human error, and its efficiency is limited by the number of humans needed to monitor each camera.
Quality and cost — these are two areas where AI will change the game.
Integrating AI into remote video monitoring can effectively eliminate these vulnerabilities. By analyzing video feeds continuously and more accurately, AI can identify unusual behaviors or patterns that humans might miss. Plus, AI-driven systems can operate tirelessly around the clock, ensuring a consistent level of vigilance and reducing the likelihood of missed incidents.
But other than Deep Sentinel, no one is investing in this type of technology.
“GardaWorld’s acquisition of Stealth Monitoring is the harbinger of a complete security industry revolution,” says Deep Sentinel CEO Dave Selinger. “It is proof of the changing needs for security providers — we can no longer ‘observe’ while crime happens before our eyes. We can no longer ‘provide evidence’ to our hamstrung law enforcement partners. The world needs us to DO SOMETHING, and to STOP these crimes. Our industry generates the most data of any and most companies still rely on the same decades old methods of reviewing footage after the fact, and handing it over to the police to do all the work.”
For the team at Deep Sentinel, this only strengthens the commitment to our mission.
The future of security lies in innovation, and at Deep Sentinel, we are leading the charge with a relentless commitment to revolutionizing the industry.
Our promise is to remain unwavering in our pursuit of better, faster, and cheaper security for all.
We’ve built a team of AI experts and security specialists, focused on developing real-time monitoring solutions that not only detect potential threats but also actively deter them with unparalleled precision. By keeping AI development in-house, we’re able to tailor our services to meet our customers’ needs while maintaining a cost advantage that competitors simply can’t match. We’ve already launched two major initiatives in 2024, and our upcoming roadmap for the next 18 months will ensure we own the “Better, Faster, Cheaper” mantra for years to come.
Whether we’re protecting a business or home, this proactive approach ensures that our customers receive the most effective protection available for their unique security needs, elevating the standard for safety and crime prevention.
“We create and combine three separate data sets: the video, the behavior of our LSC guards, and the outcome of the situation,” says Ted Kyi, VP of Data Science at Deep Sentinel. “As the only company building and growing this data set, we are positioned to innovate on the security problem in a unique and practical way — increasing the effectiveness of our guards, and simultaneously increasing the number of properties any single guard can protect. If you look at the LLM’s and major novel models being produced now, they are all using a similar approach — creating data sets that are massively scalable and don’t require manual labeling. I can comfortably say Deep Sentinel is the only company approaching the problem like this, and is probably the only one even capable of doing this.”
Deep Sentinel is not just a participant in the evolving security landscape; we are leading the way, ensuring our customers are always one step ahead in safeguarding what matters most.
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