Vitamin D Delivers Simple, Inexpensive Video Monitoring With Smart Object Recognition; Makes Professional-Grade Security Affordable to Everyone

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smart video pioneer Vitamin D today released the first commercial version of its Vitamin D Video monitoring and security software which brings enterprise-level power and features to anyone with a webcam or IP camera. Available immediately at www.vitamindinc.com, Vitamin D Video, free for customers using only one camera, can be set up by anyone in just minutes on a Mac or PC unlike similarly featured professional applications that require expensive technical installation and calibration.

“Vitamin D Video is an effective and inexpensive video monitoring tool that is easy to install and use. With this product available, there is no reason for any home, small business or school to be without video surveillance that really works”

Built on a breakthrough new platform for intelligent computing, Vitamin D Video offers sophisticated object recognition previously found only in very expensive security applications not typically accessible to consumers. It allows anyone to accomplish in minutes what previously took trained technicians many hours.

The software automatically scans hours of footage and distinguishes between humans and other moving objects such as cars and pets, so people can quickly find specific events without the time-consuming task of manually viewing the video. This gives people the ability to know when something is happening through real-time alerts, and to quickly narrow many days worth of video down to a specific incident and understand the cause of any unwanted activity.

A video demonstration is available at www.vitamindinc.com/demo.php.

In addition to a free single-camera version of the software, Vitamin D Video is available for use with two cameras for $49, and for an unlimited number of cameras, running on a single computer, for $199. This level of pricing is unprecedented in the consumer market for software that offers professional-grade object recognition.

“Vitamin D Video is an effective and inexpensive video monitoring tool that is easy to install and use. With this product available, there is no reason for any home, small business or school to be without video surveillance that really works,” said Celeste Baranski, chief executive officer of Vitamin D. “The enthusiastic response of our beta customers has already proven that Vitamin D Video works well in security applications, and is proving valuable for uses beyond traditional security.”

Running on a PC or Mac, Vitamin D Video can quickly distinguish between the presence of humans and other objects in live video streams. A simple rule builder allows people to filter for where objects are and how they are moving in the monitored video. For example, one can easily request the software to show every instance of a person entering through a particular door. The search results are conveniently organized into a daily highlight reel where hours of videos can be scanned in seconds, for certain events. People can choose to be alerted immediately of any particular event.

Highly Adaptable with Proven Results

During its free beta release period over the last three months, tens of thousands of customers around the world helped Vitamin D prove the value and flexibility of its software in a broad range of use cases from home, business and institutional security to retail analytics. Vitamin D Video is especially well-suited for institutions such as schools, universities, churches, shelters and other non-profit organizations that have a significant need for effective security but not a big budget for professional solutions or services.

Real-life examples of results reported during the Vitamin D Video beta period are at www.vitamindinc.com/usecases.html.

Uses reported by Vitamin D’s early customers go well beyond pure security in both homes and places of work, such as tracking the number or types of transactions taking place in multiple retail locations at once, monitoring vacation homes (for example – checking to see if a snowplow had cleared a driveway), understanding prospective buyer behavior among customers viewing homes for sale, and knowing what pets – or unwanted animals on the premises – were doing when no one was watching.

Schools found the software highly valuable in cost-effectively monitoring building areas around a campus without the exorbitant cost of full-time security staff. In multiple cases reported by customers, perpetrators of theft or vandalism were captured on video by the software, even leading to subsequent arrests.

HTM from Numenta: A New Kind of Intelligent Computing

Vitamin D Video is built on technology called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). HTM is a brain-inspired theory of intelligence that is the basis for a new technology from Numenta, a company founded by mobile computing industry pioneers Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky along with cofounder Dileep George. HTM allows computers to learn and recognize patterns in very large amounts of complex data in a robust, accurate and scalable fashion.

About Vitamin D

Vitamin D was formed in 2007. The company brings elegant user experience design together with new artificial intelligence to create software that simplifies people’s lives. Vitamin D is the leading independent application developer on the Numenta platform, and one of the first companies to launch a commercial application to take advantage of the power of HTM. It is located in Menlo Park, CA.