Who is Graymatics?
Graymatics is a cognitive multimedia analytics company, which has developed a massively scalable AI- based platform for deep multimedia analytics. This platform has been deployed for CCTV based Video Analytics solutions to solve a range of challenges for industries including smart cities, smart transportation, telecommunications, manufacturing, building management, retail, banks, hospitals, and factories.
What is Graymatics’ Vision and Mission?
- Vision: To transform all rich media content, devices, and sensors around the globe into compelling solutions that will make society safe and secure
- Mission: To create a highly scalable platform that transforms rich media content into an actionable data by building various innovative solutions around it
What is the history behind building such smart solutions?
While I (Abhijit Shanbhag, The President & CEO) was in the US, I observed that there were not much of video search and analytics tools. The rise of CCTVs in the urban and commercial landscape was leading to humongous video content generation which I decided to convert into machine-understandable data and offer a wide range of highly-useful solutions.
According to me,
“It became clear that an enormous opportunity existed; the opportunity to develop a highly scalable and adaptable cognitive platform, which is capable of conducting near real-time analysis of large video volumes.”
What kind of challenges can any area of operations overcome by using Graymatics services?
Following are a few strong use cases that Graymatics helps with its services:
Security and Surveillance
- Intrusion Detection: identifies unauthorized individuals entering restricted areas and trigger alerts
- Suspicious Activity Detection: identifies unusual behavior or objects, such as abandoned bags, in crowded areas.
- Facial Recognition: helps in identifying individuals on watchlists or tracking known persons of interest
- Object Tracking: enables tracking of objects or people across multiple cameras and locations
Public Safety
- Crowd Monitoring: detects crowd density and movement patterns during public events to ensure safety
- Emergency Response: identifies incidents such as accidents or fires and alerts relevant authorities
- Crime Prevention: helps law enforcement monitor public spaces and respond to criminal activities in real-time
Smart Cities
- Vehicle Counting: Counts the number of vehicles passing through specific points, aiding in traffic flow analysis
- Speed Violations Detection : Identifies cars that exceed speed limits
- Congestion Detection: Identifies areas with high traffic congestion to help with routing and traffic management
- License Plate Recognition: Automates toll collection, parking management, and enforcement of traffic rules
- Waste Management: Monitors waste bins to optimize collection schedules based on fill levels
Retail and Marketing
- Customer Behavior Analysis: Analyzes customer movement patterns, dwell times, and interaction with products to optimize store layout and marketing strategies
- Queue Management: Helps retailers identify areas with long queues and allocate resources accordingly.
- Heat maps: Generates visual representations of customer foot traffic, aiding in determining popular store sections
- Inventory Management : Tracks when goods are low on shelves, alerts for replenishment
Manufacturing Operations
- Safety Compliance: Monitors employees’ adherence to safety regulations and detects potentially hazardous situations
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Factory Assembly Plant Quality Control: Ensures parts and assembles are accurate.
Healthcare:
- Patient Monitoring: tracks patient movement within hospitals to optimize staff allocation and improve patient care
- Compliance Monitoring: ensures healthcare staff adhere to hygiene and safety protocols
- Elderly Care: monitors the well- being of elderly residents in care facilities and alerts caregivers in case of emergencies
Education:
- Campus Security: Enhances security by monitoring campus premises and identifying unauthorized access
- Attendance Management: Automates attendance tracking for students and staff
- Behavior Analysis: Identifies bullying or unusual behavior in school settings.
Can Graymatics enhance its core technology stack to customize it to suit the industry-specific need of clients?
Yes, our AI and ML system allows customization to meet industry- specific needs such as data preprocessing, feature extraction, model training, and customization.
How does Graymatics stand out from its’ competitors?
Graymatics offers a cloud platform and has built a highly scalable, versatile, and cognitive platform which can analyze huge video content volumes in almost real-time and turn the content into machine analysis data for future usage. It offers several competitive advantages over other products available in the market which make its platform the best-in-class. It offers the highest breadth of AI-powered video analytics in the industry along with optimized middleware to support the maximum number of high-performance AI analytics processes within a much smaller computer hardware footprint. That makes Graymatics the brand with the lowest TCO for high-performance AI systems. Further, there is versatility of deployment options including edge, on premises, cloud, or hybrid edge-to-cloud. Its other USPs include components such as a sophisticated alert report engine, forensic search, and insightful dashboards. The Graymatics platform can also be seamlessly integrated with a mobile app.
What are your plans to take the company to the next level in the next 5 years?
We are committed to expanding our offerings beyond video analytics to encompass other rich media sensors, including audio sensors, which are already in advanced stages of development. With the increased adoption of AI worldwide, our goal is to make Video AI and multimedia AI accessible to users in more countries, fostering positive change through enhanced safety, sanitation and security. Looking ahead, we have ambitious plans for growth, with a particular focus on expanding our presence in Europe, the Middle East, and Brazil in South America. By constantly innovating and expanding our offerings, we aim to drive meaningful transformation and empower organizations across the globe with state-of-the-art AI solutions.
About the CEO:
Abhijit Shanbhag is the President and CEO of the Singapore headquartered Graymatics, a cognitive multimedia processing company, renowned for its transformational technologies and their relevance to today’s urban and business safety landscape. Abhijit is a self-driven entrepreneur who launched Graymatics with a vision to leverage technology to improve the world.
His leadership and the transformational capabilities of Graymatics solutions have helped the company witness a surge in demand for services such as smartphone apps, surveillance, and social media insights. Abhijit aims to make Graymatics a highly scalable platform that can collect actionable data from videos and images using the power of analytics similar to the way insights are generated from text.
The vastly experienced tech- expert started his entrepreneurial journey in the year 2001, when he founded Scintera Networks, another Silicon Valley venture manufacturing semiconductors. Under his leadership and vision, Scintera developed the industry’s first programmable RF signal processor, the lowest power multi- Gigabit signal processor in industry. Prior to Scintera, Abhijit held key technical and management roles at Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Morphics.
Abhijit was the first awardee of the Global Executive Entrepreneur investment and a recipient of Rising Star Innovator award from Singapore’s Prime Minister’s Office (National Research Foundation). He has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from IIT Mumbai and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.
Founder : Abhijit Shanbhag
Company Name – Graymatics
Website – www.graymatics.com
Founder & CEO
