Glossary
Camera AI, in plain words.
39 terms you meet when evaluating video AI, each with a link to where it matters.
A
- AI Copilot#
Camnitive
The assistant in Camnitive: it explains rules in plain words and proposes improvements with the evidence behind them. The AI proposes; people decide.
Improve › AI Copilot
B
- Bystander blur#
Compliance and evidence
Blurring the people who aren’t the subject of an alert. In Camnitive it applies, per site, to the evidence copies.
Detect › edge first
C
- Chain of custody#
Compliance and evidence
The trail of who accessed a piece of evidence, when, and what they did with it, from capture to export. Evidence needs it to hold up in disputes and investigations.
- Computer vision#
Technology
The field of AI that lets software understand images and video: it locates objects, classifies them and tracks them from frame to frame. It is the detection layer under every camera-AI use case.
- Control Tower#
Camnitive
The screen in FloFusion that shows the health of every site and device at a glance.
Measure › Control Tower
D
- Data residency#
Compliance and evidence
Rules that certain data, workplace video included, must stay inside a country. Laws such as Saudi and UAE PDPL, India’s DPDP Act and Singapore’s PDPA make it an architecture question.
Regulation Navigator- Deterministic rules engine#
Technology
A rules layer where the same situation always gives the same decision, unlike black-box scoring. Every alert traces back to the rule that fired.
Try the Rule Playground- DPIA#
Compliance and evidence
Data Protection Impact Assessment: the structured privacy analysis that GDPR and similar laws require before high-risk processing, such as workplace video analytics.
- Dwell time#
Operations and safety
How long a person or vehicle stays in one place, such as a trailer at a dock door or a queue at a gate. Measured continuously, it settles detention disputes and drives throughput decisions.
Measure › measurements
E
- Edge inference#
Technology
Running AI models on hardware at the site, next to the cameras, instead of in a remote cloud. Decisions take milliseconds, keep working when the connection drops, and raw video stays on site.
FloFrame- EU AI Act (for deployers)#
Compliance and evidence
The EU’s AI regulation. Its high-risk obligations apply to deployers from 2 December 2027 (moved from August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus), and workplace camera AI can qualify, which brings duties for logging, oversight and documentation.
EU AI Act readiness- Exclusion zone#
Operations and safety
An area people must not enter, around machines, cranes or energised equipment, enforced by rules on the cameras that watch it, always or on a schedule.
Restricted zone monitoring
F
- Flo#
Camnitive
Short for frame-level optimisation, and the name shared by Camnitive’s products: FloFrame on site, FloFusion across every site, FloFleet in the cab. Each works from the camera frame up.
The products
H
- Hash chain#
Compliance and evidence
A record where each entry includes a fingerprint of the one before it, so removing or changing an entry breaks the chain. Camnitive chains its signed compliance snapshots this way.
Comply › audit ledger
M
- Man-down detection#
Operations and safety
Detecting that a person has fallen and stayed down, and escalating within seconds: critical for lone workers and quiet areas, where discovery otherwise depends on chance.
Fall & man-down detection
N
- Near miss#
Operations and safety
A safety event that could have caused harm but didn’t, such as a person in a vehicle’s path who stepped away in time. A leading indicator of the incidents to come, and measurable on camera.
Forklift–pedestrian detection
O
- Occupancy#
Operations and safety
How many people or vehicles are in an area right now, against its limit. Camnitive counts it live and keeps the history.
Measure- OEE#
Operations and safety
Overall Equipment Effectiveness, the standard manufacturing productivity measure: availability × performance × quality. Camera-based stoppage detection surfaces the short stops that disappear inside OEE averages.
- ONVIF#
Cameras and infrastructure
The open standard that lets IP cameras and video systems from different makers work together. If your cameras speak ONVIF, an analytics layer can connect to them without replacing them.
Check your cameras- Outbound-only connection#
Cameras and infrastructure
Devices that only ever call out, here on port 443 with their own keys. Nothing on the internet can reach in, so no inbound ports or VPN are opened.
Detect › edge first- Outputs#
Camnitive
What the device does on site when a rule fires: sirens, strobes, PLCs and door relays, in milliseconds, with no round trip to the cloud. An aid next to certified safety systems, not a replacement.
Detect › outputs
P
- PPE compliance#
Operations and safety
Whether the required personal protective equipment is actually worn. Helmets, vests, gloves, eyewear and harnesses are checked continuously, replacing sampled spot checks.
PPE detection- Private deployment#
Cameras and infrastructure
FloFusion run in your own cloud or data centre instead of hosted by Camnitive. FloFrame works the same either way: video stays on site.
Security and trust- Process map#
Camnitive
A site drawn as the process it is, such as docks, lines, aisles and gates, with live counts, dwell and near misses laid over each step.
Improve › process map
R
- RBAC#
Compliance and evidence
Role-based access control: permissions given by role rather than person, so who can view, export or configure is governed and auditable. Camnitive applies it down to the page and the device.
Security and trust- Regulation pack#
Camnitive
A regulation or standard, such as ISO 45001 or a national heat-stress rule, broken into clauses that the cameras score continuously, with evidence behind each score.
Comply › regulation packs- Retention by policy#
Compliance and evidence
Video and event data kept or deleted by configured rules rather than habit: a control that privacy regulators and DPIAs look for.
- Retrofit (camera AI)#
Cameras and infrastructure
Adding AI to the cameras a site already owns through an on-site inference layer, instead of replacing them with AI cameras. Days to deploy instead of quarters.
Retrofit vs new AI cameras- RTSP#
Cameras and infrastructure
Real-Time Streaming Protocol: the standard way IP cameras send live video over a network, and the other common way to connect an existing camera estate.
- Rule language#
Camnitive
How Camnitive describes what matters on a site: zones, lines, dwell, sequences, timers and posture, combined into rules such as "a person within two metres of a moving forklift".
Detect › rules
S
- Sealed evidence#
Compliance and evidence
An event record signed with the device’s own key the moment it happens and checked when it arrives, so it can be shown to be unaltered later.
Comply › audit ledger- Sovereign AI#
Compliance and evidence
AI deployed so that data, processing and control stay under the owner’s jurisdiction: on premises or in-country, not in a foreign vendor’s cloud.
- Supplier network#
Camnitive
Companies on Camnitive sharing signed compliance scores with their buyers, by consent. Scores travel; footage never leaves home.
Comply › supplier network
V
- Video analytics#
Technology
Software that finds meaning in camera footage, such as people, vehicles and events, instead of only recording it. It ranges from simple motion triggers to rules that enforce a policy.
Detect- VLM (vision-language model)#
Technology
An AI model that connects images to language, so it can describe what a camera sees in words. In Camnitive a VLM double-checks each alert before anyone is notified, and gives its reason.
Detect › verification- VMS (video management system)#
Cameras and infrastructure
The software that records, stores and plays back camera footage. A system of capture rather than action; analytics such as Camnitive run alongside it.
Camnitive vs VMS analytics- VSaaS (video surveillance as a service)#
Cameras and infrastructure
Cloud-hosted surveillance: footage streams to a vendor cloud, often from vendor-managed cameras. Convenient for light use; a poor fit where bandwidth, residency or an existing estate matter.
Camnitive vs cloud VSaaS
Z
- Zero-training detection#
Technology
Detection that works out of the box, with no site footage to collect, label and train on. Deployment shrinks from months of data projects to days of configuration.
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