A: Yes. The AnyConnect platform supports many types of devices as long as they are connected and meet the minimum requirements. The platform processes data and video and is suitable for other types of sensors, including, for example, connected microphones, sensor hubs, set-top boxes, drones, gyroscopes, accelerometers, telematics control units (TCU), radars, lidars, etc.

A: The AnyConnect platform is comprised of microservices and serverless components running on a leading IaaS platform. Within a serverless architecture, additional resources are automatically provisioned and scaled globally as needed.

A: Yes, our cloud video analytics can run on live and recorded video.

A: Yes, the AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform provides APIs to access and further analyze and manipulate generated data. Through those APIs, you can use 3^rd party tools & platforms to build heatmaps, density maps, etc.

Regarding Data Mining, the same APIs provide you access to the data. You can either provide this data to your data scientists or use an automated platform like DataRobot.

A: Yes. An example may be to market a product where you link dashcam data directly to insurance companies. Or, perhaps, the insurance partner would typically provide a discount to users driving safely (within the speed limit, no harsh breaking, strong acceleration, etc.). Your team can program your product to share this data automatically through AnyConnect API.

Another use case may be to share data when a configured event occurs, e.g., after an accident. Your team can program this using an AnyConnect API or simply using the AnyConnect video & data export function. The recipient would receive an email with a link to review the event.

A: Have you sourced a camera/device and other sensors?

1. Yes, I have a target device/camera already – It has to meet the minimum technical requirements. If it does, you will need the toolchain and the support of the manufacturer of this device/camera.

2. No, I need help to find a device/camera – AnyConnect can help you to find a suitable device/camera within its network of partners.

Once the right camera/device has been identified, and when all pieces of software have been provided, the integration usually takes between 2 to 4 weeks.

A: Yes, the AnyConnect App on Android and iOS does support multiple cameras and multiple vehicles. It supports dashcams with multiple imagers as well as GNSS, sensors, and sync playback from up to 4 vehicles at the same time.

A: AnyConnect doesn't mandate a specific encoding or compression algorithm. You can use your preferred system, whether it's using a standard SensorML or an in house delta based encoding. Please note that AnyConnect's Adaptive Bitrate technology can be applied to your encoding implementation to throttle its output. Your encoder has to support this, of course.

A: Yes. The AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform supports video and other types of sensor data. The platform has video-specific (and to a lesser extent audio-specific) functionalities linked to the data weight of audio & video, like Adaptive Bitrate Streaming. Still, it supports almost all kinds of data streams. Those data streams are recorded with selectable data retention, and are protected by access control and encryption, and can be viewed live and played back the same way video is. AnyConnect platform AI at the edge and in the cloud works on non-video data as well.

Data types supported by AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform Include, but are not limited to: Gyroscope, Magnetometer (Digital Compass), Inertial Sensor, Accelerometer, Laser, Time-of-flight camera, LIDAR, Radar for speed measurement, Radar for object detection, Microwave, Ultrasonic, PIR (Passive Infrared), GNSS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS).  Here are other examples: temperature, humidity, Vehicle parameters (health & telemetry, CAN bus), Microphone(s), Air Pollution Sensors (PM10, PM2.5, NOx, SO2, CO, CO2, O3), airspeed, wind, etc.

A: There are multiple options to get your device connected online.

1. Cellular only – Only LTE/5G is available. AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform will "call home" and provide all of its interactions through this cellular network interface.

2. Cellular & Wi-Fi – Both network interfaces are active at the same time; for instance, the LTE/5G interface provides access to the internet, and the Wi-Fi interface acts as a hotspot to connect other devices to the internet. Both network interfaces could be used at the same time for redundancy purposes (if one interface is down, the other will provide a fallback connection).

Having a Wi-Fi interface on a camera/device allows end-users to access the camera's settings and local recordings without an internet connection, directly through Wi-Fi.

3. Wi-Fi only – The device will connect to the internet through a Wireless Access point.

4. Ethernet – AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform supports Ethernet. If the device has an Ethernet interface and a Wi-Fi/LTE/5G interface as well, it can use them for redundancy or hotspot purposes. If Wi-Fi is available as well, a direct connection to the camera is possible.

A: Yes, in two ways.

1. These sensors can be connected to a camera or another device with AnyConnect libraries through standard wireless mesh networks, such as Bluetooth LE, Z-Wave, ANT+, or other wireless mesh networks working on top of IEEE 802.15.4 such as 6LoWPAN or Zigbee. The system will treat them as its internal sensors as well as providing health information, like battery status, etc. No modification to the sensor's hardware or software is required. AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform distributes over the air updates to those sensors.

2. For sensors that are not connected to a camera or a device running AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform, it is still possible to connect them to the AnyConnect Platform, if they are connected and can run libAnyConnect.

A: AnyConnect platform runs on a leading IaaS platform. It is currently available in most locations worldwide, such as most of the Americas, Europe, most parts of Asia, Africa & Oceania.

A: Yes, AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform supports many kinds of sensors. Combining those sensors provides better situational awareness, which means that events from those sensors can trigger recording or other processes. Computer Vision algorithms can infer on all the available sensors, audio, and video data.

A: The AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform differentiates between network interfaces such as Ethernet, Cellular like LTE/5G as well as Wi-Fi, and, is configurable to minimize data transfer on metered connections and prioritize un-metered connections. It offers additional options to reduce data usage on further:

1. The AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform streams with a lower bandwidth while on a metered connection (by throttling AnyConnect Adaptive Bitrate Steaming).

2. AnyConnect offers further options to reduce cellular use; for example, your team can program the platform to send less data while on a metered connection.

3. You may choose to send a single, still, native resolution frame, allowing the user to get a high definition view of the scene and recognize faces/read license plates.

A: AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform does monitor the device's health parameters. Select the device's subcomponents to monitor (e.g., CPU temperature, RAM usage, input voltage, etc.) during the device's integration through AnyConnect Plugin Libraries. You can set thresholds to generate health monitoring notifications. You can monitor SD cards' and other storage systems like SSDs or HDDs, health as well as wear and tear through the same mechanism.

A: Yes, the AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform is an end-to-end platform. We provide helper libraries that run on edge components, including the camera, other sensors, massively scaled cloud, and user interface. AnyConnect and its platform provides 3^rd

party integration, AI at the edge and in the cloud, manages access and permissions, provides firmware and inference model updates through AI Containers™. AnyConnect provides user interface libraries for the major OS' as well as apps with easy branding.

A: There are four different recording schemes available:

1. Event – Event recording means that video, audio, and data are recorded when an event is triggered. This event could come from a sensor crossing a certain threshold or from video analytics. Usually, video is sent prior to and for a period after the event. The retention time is programmable as well as FPS & resolution.

2. Continuous – The system records video continuously. The retention time is programmable as well.

3. Event + Continuous – In this configuration, the system records video continuously at a specific resolution/FPS/bandwidth, usually something like mid-resolution but low FPS and low bandwidth. In case of an event, the recording resolution will change, usually to higher resolution, FPS & bandwidth for the event duration, as well as pre and post-recording. The event video is tagged as well.

4. Time-lapse – In this configuration, the system records snapshots only (no video) at specific times every day.

5. Snapshot – This is the event-driven version of Time-lapse. When an event arises, the system records a snapshot. Retention time is programmable.

A: Enabling AI at the edge usually requires a complex project led by "la crème de la crème "of software developers and engineers. Deploying edge AI, securely, at scale, over-the-air, on different types of products, using different chips and different AI accelerators is extremely difficult, complex, and has a high chance of failing.

AnyConnect's platform enables the deployment of cloud and edge inference models at scale in smart camera networks through AI Containers™. Those deployments happen over-the-air, securely, on different types of products and AI accelerators at the same time.

A: Regarding data collection, it depends on the type of sensor and what it senses. For instance, certain types of sensors provide information at a regular frequency that you can set, like GNSS, for example. Some other sensors have a variable frequency. They provide readings with very long intervals during which the value does not change, and given a new input report data or show volatility. A good example of that is wireless temperature sensors as well as Input/output sensors like door contacts. AnyConnect supports any of these reporting processes.

Regarding data coding, AnyConnect Smarter AI™ Camera Platform supports any type of text & data stream. For sensors generating a lot of data, e.g., certain lidars, high definition radars, etc., we integrate compression solutions for efficient use of cellular networks.

A: Replaying video from the cloud or from a camera is transparent to the users. Different interfaces enable users to playback video, audio, and data with different functionalities and benefits:

1. Application – libAnyConnect provides full-featured playback, provides access to all related sensor data, and native definition still image playback. Playback is served automatically from a local source or a cloud source. libAnyConnect is provided for iOS & Android, as well as Linux, macOS, Web Browsers, & Windows upon request.

2. Clientless – AnyConnect enables the clientless playback of video using HTML5. In this case, playback is served from the cloud. It works for audio and video only and not for metadata.

A: The internet is not an environment built to easily facilitate edge to edge communication. It is littered with NATs, Firewalls, and other challenges like intermittent and unreliable cellular and wireless networks.

The anticipation of 5G and its promise to wirelessly offer broadband speeds presents a great opportunity for the industry to provide solutions for difficult network solutions, which is expected to drive a surge in demand in edge-to-edge communications.