Lumana vs Verkada
A fixed chip, a fixed ceiling.
Ours doesn't have one.
Verkada has AI — but it lives on a fixed chip inside each camera, so your ceiling is whatever fits on that chip. Lumana runs on NVIDIA GPUs with up to 100x the processing power, so you can run modern, demanding AI on any camera — and keep adding more without new hardware.
A 30-minute walkthrough on the cameras you already own. No rip and replace.
Key differentiator
Lumana runs AI on NVIDIA GPUs, not a fixed chip inside the camera — so the camera's hardware never sets your AI ceiling.
Our technology
No chip, no ceiling
Verkada's AI runs on a fixed chip inside each camera, so it can only ever be as smart as that chip. Lumana runs on NVIDIA GPUs with up to 100x the processing power — bringing modern, demanding AI to any camera and turning it into a truly intelligent device.
More AI, no new hardware
With chip-bound AI, wanting more means new cameras and a hardware refresh. With Lumana, the cameras you own today just keep getting smarter — no new hardware required.
Detect what you actually need
You're not limited to the detections that shipped on the chip. Run what your team needs now, and add new detections as they arrive — no waiting on the next hardware cycle.
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
If AI capacity weren't a hardware question, what would you want from your video security?
See how Lumana makes that real — AI on NVIDIA GPUs, running on the cameras you already own, with new models added in software.