What happened
The car was within range of the surveillance system. No one knew which night the theft took place, so there were several days of footage to check, and in each of them a six-hour overnight window. The police did not have the time to go through it. The proceedings were dropped.
No one was at fault here. An officer with dozens of cases on their desk will not sit for two days in front of a screen over a single catalytic converter. The problem was not that the camera failed to see something. It was that no one could afford to watch what it had recorded.
Let's do the math
Six hours of night times several days is dozens of hours of material from a single camera. Even at fast-forward that is many hours of focused work, where a single blink is enough to miss the two minutes you are looking for. Stealing a catalytic converter takes less time than making coffee.
How it would look today
Instead of scrubbing, you type what you are looking for:
person by a car in a parking lot at night
The system shows every such moment from the chosen days, best match first, with the time and the person's path. Instead of dozens of hours you are left with a few clips, each a dozen seconds long. That can be watched in a break between other cases and attached to the file.
We are not claiming the culprit would have been caught. We are claiming someone would have watched the footage.
What you get
A few minutes instead of dozens of hours of review. For the victim, the administrator and the officer.
Damage you can document means an insurance payout, or a culprit you can pursue for reimbursement.
A place where thefts get detected stops being a convenient target.
That's why we're building Xentim
Surveillance records everything, yet almost no one watches the footage. We want the answer to "what happened" to take a minute, instead of ending in a letter about a dropped case.
See it on your own footage
The demo takes up to an hour and runs on footage from your cameras.
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