Lumana vs Ambient
Threat detection is one job.
We built a platform for the rest.
Ambient is strong at threat detection for large security operations. Lumana does that too — and because it's one platform, the same cameras also elevate safety and operations, not just security.
A 30-minute walkthrough on the cameras you already own. No rip and replace.
Key differentiator
Lumana is one platform — a modern VMS and proprietary AI agents in the same system — so the same cameras protect against threats, keep people safe, and improve how the business runs.
Our technology
One platform, not a portfolio
Ambient packages its intelligence as separate products. Lumana brings monitoring, investigation, alarm clearing, and response together in a single platform — VMS and AI built as one.
Everything you'd evaluate them for, built in
Gun detection, PACS alarm clearing, contextual reasoning — the capabilities security teams shortlist Ambient for are native to Lumana, running on the same model that powers everything else.
Beyond the security desk
Ambient is built for the security operation. Because Lumana is the platform, the same system also elevates safety and operations — value the whole business feels, not just the SOC.
A brain that perceives, reasons, and acts
A brain isn't one feature — it's three faculties working together. Here's what VIA-1 does on any IP camera you already own, from a single site to tens of thousands of cameras.
Perceive
See, with human-like perception
VIA-1 watches every feed in real time — object recognition, behavior analysis, and anomaly detection — and adapts to each camera's environment, getting more accurate the longer it runs.
People, vehicle, and object detection on any IP camera
Continuous situational learning, per camera
Behavior and anomaly detection, not just motion
reason
Understand, and find anything fast
Ask in plain language. VIA-1 reasons across every camera in your organization, turning hours of footage into the exact moment you need — in seconds.
Free-text search: "person in a black shirt walking through a door"
Multi-object search across 40+ attributes
Occupancy and operational insights over time
act3
Automated, user-defined responses
When something that matters happens, VIA-1 doesn't just flag it — it acts. Define the response once in plain language, and it runs on its own, every time.
Custom alerts written in natural language
Notifications, audible messages, alarms, GPIO, API, and webhooks
Adding AI to your security stack — or
consolidating onto one platform?
See what it looks like to run security, safety, and operations on a single AI-native platform — on the cameras you already own.