Umbo for Small Businesses & Retail Stores
Deter theft and other suspicious activity with A.I. security cameras for small businesses and retail stores
As a small business owner, keeping an eye on inventory is part of the job. With shelves full of product and unfamiliar faces coming in and out of your store all the time, you need to be aware of potential threats.
However, running a business often requires your attention to be everywhere at once. When assisting customers, the last thing you want is to be caught up in deciphering false positives or operating an overly complicated security system. This is why retail stores often end up wrestling with antiquated security systems that aren’t effective at all.
If this is your situation, Umbo can help you out. Here’s how:
1. Update your cameras
The first step to improving your business’s security is to assess whether to replace your cameras. Video security cameras are generally rated to last about four to five years before needing updating and replacement.
Umbo’s beautiful AiCameras connect directly to the cloud and provide high-definition video that allows for accurate human detection for up to 50 meters, even in the dark. Having high quality video is especially important for detecting theft, since pocketing goods is a small, surreptitious movement that would be easily missed on the grainy feeds of lesser cameras.
Our AiCameras also offer cloud storage. By using our cameras, enjoy the convenience of no longer having to wrestle with out-of-date on-premise hardware, like NVRs. With your data backed up to the cloud, you don’t have to worry about thieves stealing video footage of their break-in. Plus, you can replace all your clunky NVR and networking hardware and finally clear off your desk.
Already like a few of your cameras? Umbo can still help you. If your cameras can output a stream in RTSP, Light can work with them and lower your false alerts.
2. Bring in the A.I.
When protecting a small business, your security system needs to keep an eye on the people who come in and out of your store. Light A.I., Umbo’s cloud and neural network-based artificial intelligence service, can help with that. Its A.I. accurately identifies human presence, reducing false alerts by 95% compared to traditional motion detection.
This means that when Light sends you a notification that someone is in your store, you can quickly glance at the security video to see what the person is up to and monitor their activity. This curtailing of false positives means that you won’t be distracted by a cat wandering into your store or shifting merchandise if you have strong air conditioning or a fan on.
3. Manage your cameras from anywhere
As a retail shop owner, you’re not going to always be at the storefront. When you’re on the go, meeting with customers or acquiring inventory, you and your employees can continue to keep an eye on what’s happening in the store with the Umbo app, available on both iOS and Android.
TruePlatform streamlines your security system, and is super easy to use, so there is no need for extensive training or onboarding for your employees to use it. After store hours, TruePlatform allows you to continue monitoring whether someone is there, even when no one is on the premises.
Best yet, if you’re working with cameras from a variety of different brands, TruePlatform has the added benefit of giving you the ability to manage them all from the same place. No more logging in and out of various platforms to access your cameras. TruePlatform is your one stop shop for overseeing all your feeds.
Curious about other ways Umbo can help secure your business?
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Thunderbolt Books
The oldest spiritual bookstore in Santa Monica brings its security camera system up to date with Umbo’s AiCameras, Light A.I., and TruePlatform.
