{"id":203949,"date":"2026-02-03T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/?p=203949"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:40:39","slug":"trends-2026-video-surveillance-is-no-longer-just-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/blog\/trends-2026-video-surveillance-is-no-longer-just-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends 2026: Video Surveillance is no longer just recording"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world of security is changing. Is your current system ready for what comes next? That&#8217;s the kind of question we aim to address in our annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/video-surveillance-trends\/\" title=\"\">Trends Report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this year&#8217;s report, we describe how video surveillance is fundamentally shifting from a purely reactive tool to an engine for proactive business intelligence and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This transformation is driven by two indispensable forces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cloud-Native AI<\/strong>: Moving beyond simple object detection to enabling complex, natural-language-based rule creation, automating entirely new workflows for safety and operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Enterprise Cloud Tipping Point<\/strong>: The cost of maintaining obsolete on-premises systems now outweighs the efficiency and predictable OpEx of modern, unified cloud platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also explore critical movements like the rise of active readiness in incident response, the growing demand for AI-driven features like gun detection, and how regulatory compliance is becoming a core operational reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decision-makers \u2014 from business leaders to municipal managers \u2014 need to know which platform is flexible enough for what\u2019s coming next. That means recognizing people, vehicles, and objects (from hard hats to drawn guns) to enable fast, appropriate responses. And staying audit-ready year-round, with logs that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. More than just objects or simple message passing, though, it&#8217;s about initiating actions in response to complex situations when a safety or security issue is spotted on camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile een-text-media-block-left\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-SecondImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203972 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-SecondImage.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-SecondImage-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>And when an emergency arises, it also means coordinating with local emergency services to provide the situational awareness police and firefighters need to do their jobs with confidence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re already an Eagle Eye Cloud VMS user, you probably recognize that we&#8217;re already implementing systems that help make these trends useful in the real world. No surprise: incorporating AI with video surveillance has been a long-time priority for Eagle Eye, and for even longer, we&#8217;ve offered customers access to their video data from anywhere, via the cloud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile een-text-media-block-right\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>What&#8217;s different now is that AI has jumped ahead in capability, so yesterday&#8217;s cutting-edge features are today&#8217;s starting points \u2014 or they should be. And the boundaries have shifted accordingly: advanced object detection and complex automated actions are now in easy reach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-ThirdImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203961 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-ThirdImage.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trends-ThirdImage-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t be left behind. Get the full strategic outlook for the year ahead, and start evaluating how ready your system is for the changes that are on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/video-surveillance-trends\/\">Read it now: Download the 2026 Trends Report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of security is changing. Is your current system ready for what comes next? That&#8217;s the kind of question we aim to address in our annual Trends Report.\u00a0 In &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/blog\/trends-2026-video-surveillance-is-no-longer-just-recording\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trends 2026: Video Surveillance is no longer just recording<\/span> Les mer &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3197,"featured_media":203950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4139,4147,4823,4827,4829,4831","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}