EAGLE EYE NETWORKS

Who’s watching your back?

By Donnie Rust

Personal safety is a common and mind-occupying concern for everyone and cited as one of the major reasons why some people do not travel. For those who do, it is in their best interests to take steps to ensure their safety ahead of time. For POI (people of interest) including travelling high-end corporate executives, dignitaries, royalties and wealthy wanderers’ personal safety is something that is usually outsourced to companies that can offer the skillsets and technologies needed to prevent anything from happening.

This is one of those scenarios where the measure of success is when nothing happens. Donnie Rust took a deep look at one of the award-winning businesses leading their sector in terms of applicable technology for the prevention of incidents as much as the monitoring of them. Eagle Eye Networks.

About The Company

Eagle Eye Networks is the global leader in cloud video surveillance, providing cyber-secure, cloudbased video solutions enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to boost business efficiency and enhance safety worldwide. Companies of all sizes rely on the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS (video management system) to centralize their video surveillance, improving both security and operational efficiency.

Designed specifically for the cloud and AI, the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS offers unlimited scalability, straightforward usage-based subscription pricing, advanced analytics, integrated AI, and a flexible open RESTful API platform.

Eagle Eye’s products are distributed through a global network of resellers and integrators. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Tokyo and recently their founder and CEO Dean Drako won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Gulf South Award.

License Plate Reader

Eagle Eye’s license plate reader is an AI-powered license plate recognition technology that works with any surveillance camera in all kinds of challenging conditions, increasing business security and efficiency while lowering costs. Eagle Eye LPR (also referred to as automatic number plate recognition (ANPR)) is an affordable, practical solution designed for personal security firms seeking maximum flexibility, exceptional support, and a video management and AI platform robust enough to scale and adapt to changing conditions.

Powered by Eagle Eye Networks industryleading AI and analytics, Eagle Eye LPR collaborates with the Eagle Eye Vehicle Surveillance Package to enable seamless monitoring of vehicles across multiple locations. Allowing the surroundings of POI (people of interest) to be monitored from varying perspectives and vantage points.

911 Camera Sharing

Should the worst take place, Eagle Eye 911 Camera Sharing is a first-of-its-kind technology that gives Emergency Communication Centre telecommunicators (911 professionals) instant access to security cameras, empowering them to deliver critical incident information to first responders during an emergency. Eagle Eye 911 Camera Sharing has won numerous security industry awards including: 2024 ESX Innovation Award, 2024 Secure Campus Award and 2024 Campus Safety BEST Award.

Award Winning Business

As mentioned above, Dean Drako, Eagle Eye Networks Founder and CEO, won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Gulf South Award. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for unstoppable entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. The award ceremony was earlier this year.

Under Drako’s leadership, Eagle Eye Networks has revolutionized the video surveillance industry, achieved significant growth and helped businesses worldwide enhance security and operational efficiency through cloud, advanced AI and analytics to make the world a safer place. www.een.com

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Eagle Eye Networks has made notable advancements in AI technology, including its award-winning, AI-powered Smart Video Search and License Plate Recognition, and its newly launched 911 camera sharing, which has already won two awards recognizing its positive impact on public safety and emergency response.

Drako founded Eagle Eye Networks, and he sits as Chairman of cloud access control leader Brivo, and Chairman of enterprise security automation leader Cobalt AI. Previously, he was founder, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks, where he created the IT security industry’s first spam filter appliance, growing the company from its inception in 2003 through 2012 to more than 140 products and 150,000 customers.

An independent judging panel of previous award winners, leading CEOs and other business leaders selected Drako. Candidates were evaluated based on their ability to create long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to their purpose and the demonstration of growth and substantial impact, among other key indicators.

As a Gulf South award winner, Drako will be considered for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 National Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in June 2025.

Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to fortify it for the future.