Every security and operations team knows the pain of digging through hours of video to find a single moment. Whether it’s investigating a security breach, verifying compliance, or resolving a customer dispute, the process is often slow, frustrating, and prone to human error.

Traditional video search tools haven’t made it much easier. Most stop at simple filtering or text prompts, such as “man in a red shirt” or “brown truck.” The moment you add complexity—multiple attributes, behaviors, or timelines—they break.

That’s why Lumana built Text Search: a new way to find exactly what you’re looking for, simply by typing a few words.

Natural, End-to-End Video Search

Most search tools rely on rigid rules or filters. Lumana’s Text Search uses natural language processing, so your queries don’t have to be perfect, just conversational.

For example, instead of selecting multiple pre-defined filters for “blue shirt,” “male,” and “server room,” you can simply type: “show me everyone wearing a blue shirt who entered the server room last Tuesday.”

This flexibility enables users of all skill levels, from frontline security officers to executives, to find the answers they need without training or guesswork. 

Every minute saved in an investigation is a minute gained for response. Lumana’s Text Search drastically shortens the time between “What happened?” and “Here’s the evidence.” Instead of assigning staff to review hours of video or relying on incomplete keyword tagging, teams can trust Lumana to surface exactly the clips they need, verified by context-aware AI. This speed not only accelerates incident resolution but also frees leaders to focus on prevention and strategy, not endless video review.

AI That Understands Context

Where traditional analytics only match predefined rules, Lumana interprets the context behind your query. This matters because many critical incidents are not about a single object; they are about behavior and patterns over time.

Other systems often stop at object recognition, returning every clip with a “red shirt” or “truck” but missing the scenario that really matters. Lumana goes further, analyzing how people and objects interact with their environment.

For example:

• Security: unusual behavior near a restricted door after hours
• Safety: workers entering hazardous zones without PPE
• Operations: a near-miss with a forklift in a busy aisle

By understanding context, Lumana reduces false alerts, surfaces risks that other systems overlook, and provides actionable insights across every camera and location without requiring endless manual setup or tagging.

Real-World Use Cases Across Industries

Text Search isn’t just faster search; it turns hours of video into answers your teams can act on right now. Across industries, that speed translates into faster response, safer sites, and cleaner audits:

• Retail: Detect fraud or policy violations, like register openings with no customer present
• Manufacturing & Industrial: Track safety compliance at scale, from helmet usage to restricted area breaches
• Data Centers: Validate after-hours access without scrubbing through days of footage
• Healthcare: Confirm that protocols are being followed, such as hand hygiene, or monitor access to pharmacies and maternity wards
• Education & Campuses: Locate a missing student or verify a reported altercation in seconds

By delivering answers in seconds, Lumana helps teams reduce losses, improve safety, and strengthen compliance across environments.

Text Search + Smart Search: The Best of Both Worlds

For users who need a higher level of precision, Lumana’s Smart Search interface remains unmatched. It provides the most comprehensive and accurate way to search video in the industry, allowing users to layer multiple parameters and attributes together to essentially build a story of what they’re looking for, rather than typing a paragraph-long prompt.

Imagine responding to an active Amber Alert: you need to locate both a person of interest and their vehicle across weeks of footage. With Smart Search, you can combine attributes such as:

• Person: male, adult, short-sleeve black shirt, hat, carrying a bag
• Vehicle: black Tesla, partial license plate “35”

Instead of starting with 40,000 clips across all cameras, Smart Search narrows results down to just 7, each highly relevant. Investigators can then move from hours (or days) of manual review to actionable leads in seconds.

Text Search complements this by offering an intuitive and flexible option for fast, everyday queries (“show me everyone who entered the server room last Tuesday”). Together, Smart Search and Text Search offer the most powerful search toolkit in the industry, providing teams with unmatched accuracy, speed, and accessibility.

Why Lumana Leads the Industry in Video Search

Not all AI search is created equal. Other solutions often lock search features to their proprietary cameras, limit results to basic object matches, or fail under complex queries. Lumana stands apart by offering:

• Camera-agnostic compatibility – Works with any IP camera, no rip-and-replace
• Behavior-aware AI – Detects not just objects, but context and activity
• Continuous learning – AI models improve accuracy per camera over time
• Hybrid-cloud performance – Edge processing + cloud intelligence ensures fast, reliable results
• User-first design – Simple enough for anyone, powerful enough for experts

The result? The most advanced and easiest-to-use AI video security solution available today.

The Bottom Line

With Lumana Text Search, teams can investigate faster, uncover hidden insights, and make video data more actionable than ever before. For more information or help getting started with Text Search, request a demo or contact sales@lumana.ai.

Text Search was introduced as part of the August Product Update. To see the full release notes, visit https://www.lumana.ai/product-updates.