Purple Transform boosts AI for public safety

  • October 15, 2024
  • William Payne

UK-based AI developer Purple Transform has released Version 3 of its SiYtE platform, which provides security in public spaces. The new version introduces ‘Use Case Builder’, a tool to customise public safety while maintaining GDPR compliance.

SiYtE is widely deployed across UK public spaces, including schools, hospitals and the country’s rail infrastructure.

SiYtE ingests and analyses data from CCTV cameras, IoT sensors, and third-party feeds. Its AI and computer vision technology can identify and alert on behaviour that has been categorised as unexpected, unsafe, or suspicious. The platform integrates with existing infrastructure, and has the capacity to support hundreds of different use cases. These include trespass, theft and vandalism, and overcrowding, as well as detecting unattended luggage, and track obstructions. It can also detect if workers are not wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE), such as hard hats.

SiYtE’s new Use Case Builder is designed to streamline the process of building and rolling out new use cases in live environments. Organisations can configure and deploy their own protocols, defining the incidents they want to observe or prevent and setting out the escalation process.

The new version also includes a customisable dashboard, designed to enhance the user experience by offering a user-friendly interface that is more visually intuitive. The dashboard can be tailored to reflect each customer’s specific and evolving needs. The platform is expanding its integrations with commonly deployed solutions, including building management, fire alarm, and escalator monitoring systems, as well as third-party data feeds such as train timetables.

“Our technology partners are responsible for monitoring and securing hugely complex environments, overseeing hundreds of cameras and sensors while ensuring the safety of thousands of visitors and employees alike. These are high stakes environments; they need robust solutions that can identify and mitigate incidents before it’s too late,” said Michael Shannon, Chief Product Officer, Purple Transform. “Our partners have already seen the powerful safety benefits of SiYtE and its dual capabilities of AI and computer vision. SiYtE’s Use Case Builder feature takes this a step further, making it possible for them to spin up new use cases in the shortest possible timeframe.”