Real-Time Alerts

A wide range, configurable per camera and zone. Security events: people in restricted areas after hours, perimeter intrusions, tailgating at access-controlled doors, vehicles in no-park zones, repeated visits to a location overnight. Safety events: PPE violations (missing hard hats, vests, masks), slip-and-fall incidents, forklift safety violations, hazardous conditions like spills. Operational events: vehicles idling too long, queue length exceeding thresholds, occupancy in spaces exceeding limits, deliveries arriving outside scheduled windows. Custom triggers: anything you can describe — "alert me when more than three people gather at the loading dock between 6 PM and 6 AM" works as a rule.

Alerts deliver via email, SMS text message, mobile push notification through the spot.ai app, and direct integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other tools. Routing is fully configurable: high-priority security events can page the security manager and on-call IT staff; routine PPE alerts can go to the safety supervisor; operational anomalies can land in a department-specific Slack channel. Each alert includes the relevant video clip attached, so whoever receives it can verify the event without having to log into the dashboard separately.

Alert fatigue is the failure mode that kills most video analytics deployments. spot.ai avoids it three ways. First, rules are tuned per camera and zone with sensitivity dialed for your environment — not generic defaults. Second, the AI's accuracy on mainstream detections is high enough that false positives are uncommon to begin with. Third, you can group similar events, set cooldowns to prevent duplicate alerts for the same incident, and route low-priority detections to a dashboard digest instead of paging someone. We tune the rules with you in the first weeks after deployment so the alerts you actually receive are the ones that need response.

Yes. Native integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, and webhooks for custom systems. The webhook option means almost any platform you use — ticketing systems, alarm dispatch, paging services, custom dashboards — can receive spot.ai alerts. For physical security integrations, spot.ai works alongside your access control and alarm panels; a detected event can trigger camera recording on connected systems, log to your incident management platform, or push to your central station monitoring service.

Within seconds of the event for the standard delivery channels. Because spot.ai's AI processing happens locally on the Intelligent Video Recorder, detection is near-instantaneous; the alert is generated within a second or two of the event being captured, and the notification reaches the configured channels (push, SMS, email, Slack) over the next few seconds depending on the network. The video clip attached to the alert is ready by the time the notification arrives, so reviewers can verify the event immediately rather than waiting on cloud processing.