Security & Safety Things Expands North American Presence with New Teams and Innovation Accelerator to Leverage AI, Deep Learning Tech Collaborations

• Growth in North America centered in Pittsburgh headquarters, heart of the ‘new Silicon Valley’ tech incubation community
• New teams on board for customer support, business development for key verticals such as healthcare and stadiums to optimize gathering of business intelligence data
• Innovation Accelerator offers resources for collaboration among developers, assistance in app design and AI technology

Munich and Pittsburgh, Feb. 4, 2021 — Security and Safety Things GmbH is announcing that it is significantly expanding the company’s presence in the United States to support R&D and business development growth for its open IoT platform for smart cameras. The focus will be on key vertical markets such as healthcare, sports venues and transportation considered ripe for innovation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology.

At its North American headquarters in the city of Pittsburgh, lauded as the next Silicon Valley, Security & Safety Things (S&ST) is expanding its complement of engineering, business development, sales and marketing staff, with specific growth focused on customer centric expertise and ongoing technology innovation. Additional sales engineers and customer support specialists will be dedicated to the Innovation Accelerator at the Pittsburgh facility, designed to provide application developers and integrators access to cutting edge AI R&D and other startup resources to help them innovate on the S&ST platform. The Innovation Accelerator will also be used to showcase these growing capabilities to visiting integrators and end user customers.

“When innovators can share ideas, resources and diverse perspectives, they are able to create new solutions and creative ways to leverage technology,” said Hartmut Schaper, chief executive officer of Security & Safety Things. “Solutions developed here in Pittsburgh, working in concert with our global team, will help stadiums to reopen and optimize fan experiences, streamline COVID-related issues such as crowding and queues in transportation venues and help healthcare organizations with issues relating to compliance, patient privacy and accident prevention and response. These are just two of the many verticals that will benefit from the focused competence in the S&ST Innovation Accelerator. We expect to see developers and integrators jointly breaking ground with our experts in many other areas.”

The growing Pittsburgh presence leverages the area’s dynamic technology incubator community, which includes other major academic and corporate technology excellence centers for AI and deep learning, such as computer science leader Carnegie Mellon University, the Bosch Group, Amazon and nationally ranked startup incubators such as AlphaLab. This concentration of expertise and focus on technological research complements and augments Security & Safety Things expertise at its other locations at the company’s global headquarters in Munich and in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Through the Innovation Accelerator, third party developers designing and executing complex AI-enabled apps for the S&ST Application Store and open camera Operating System can leverage engineering and development support from a specialized team, formed to aid S&ST’s growing community of developers. Close collaboration between this team and app developers allows S&ST to gather valuable voice of customer feedback, refine their IoT platform and expand their relationship with development companies for future cooperation.

The IoT platform from Security and Safety Things consists of: an open, Android-based camera operating system that serves as the common basis for all components; a portal for app developers with tools for development and testing; a community section for help and inspiration; an application store with ready-to-use video analytics apps that can be flexibly combined, and a portal for integrators that provides knowledge about innovative solutions available within the ecosystem.

Security & Safety Things and BOSCH

Security & Safety Things is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH and is part of Bosch’s strategic development of new digital growth markets. In the future, Security & Safety Things wants to continuously accelerate the expansion of its global ecosystem through external partners.

For press enquiries:
Fabio Marti, Security & Safety Things
Mobile +49 172 2497100
fabio.marti@de.bosch.com

Andrea Gural, Eclipse Media Group on behalf of Security & Safety Things
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Security and Safety Things GmbH

Security & Safety Things operates an open IoT platform that connects camera manufacturers, SoC providers, application developers, VMS providers, and systems integrators. Its goal is to accelerate the speed of innovation for security cameras and applications that make use of AI and computer vision. To achieve this, the company offers a free and open operating system for security cameras, a development tool kit for app developers and a device management portal as well as an application store for integrators. Security & Safety Things GmbH is based in Munich, Germany and has been on the market since September 2018.

Bosch Group (Robert Bosch GmbH)

As a leading IoT company, the Bosch Group offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in 60 countries.