Five steps to SituAItional Awareness™
1. Procure
Subscribe to SituAItional Awareness™ — with your own hardware, or with the full Echidna Gear suite included.
2. Configure
Adapt the modular Echidna hardware for the task, or connect the data from compatible third-party hardware to the platform.
3. Select
Mix and match AI analytics for things like vehicles, people, animals or site activity, to turn raw footage into structured data and alerts.
4. Detect
The AI analyses captured footage against your triggers, flags matching events, and directly extracts rich data
5. Act
Events arrive with footage, data, and context — clear insights, not hours of video. Ready for decisions and action.
The same system. Any mission. Any environment. Now see what it's worth to your operation.
Estimate how much manual review effort your team could reduce with Echidna, and the labour cost that may be returned to higher-value work.
Include watching footage, identifying events, exporting clips, and preparing reports.
Estimated time returned to operations
56.3 hrs/month
7.0 staff days/month
Manual workload reduction
65%
20 hrs/week to 7 hrs/week
Estimated labour cost saved
$2,535/month
$30,420/year
Time returned each week
13 hrs/week
84.5 staff days/year
Results are indicative estimates only. Actual savings will vary depending on footage volume, workflows, event frequency, staffing costs, and deployment configuration.
For a detailed breakdown of how AI event detection differs from deterrence-based surveillance, and what that means for local government procurement, read our analysis here.