EdgeTrace

EdgeTrace

EdgeTrace, Inc. · Video

EdgeTrace is an AI video search platform for public safety. Its Vantage VMS indexes the cameras an agency already runs so investigators can find vehicles, people, and events in plain language.

Interface preview of EdgeTrace

About EdgeTrace

What Is EdgeTrace

EdgeTrace sells AI video analytics for public safety to police departments, campus safety teams, and transit agencies. The pitch is simple: natural language video search across the cameras you already run. Instead of scrubbing footage frame by frame, an investigator types a description like "white pickup, ladder rack, between 2 and 4 a.m." and gets ranked matches with timestamps. The company says typical first-match latency sits under two seconds across a 30-day window.

The product ships as Vantage VMS, which plugs into the video systems agencies already operate: Genetec, Milestone, Avigilon, and S3 buckets. Indexing runs on an appliance inside the agency network, so footage doesn't leave the building. A beta companion called Vantage Field covers field capture.

Two limits matter before you request a briefing. Pricing isn't published, and there's no self-serve trial. Buying EdgeTrace means a sales conversation and a deployment plan sized to your camera count and retention window. The tool also assumes you have cameras worth searching; an agency with thin coverage gets thin results.

Getting Started

  1. Book a briefing through the EdgeTrace site. A 30-minute session runs against a demo dataset, and you bring the questions your detectives actually ask.
  2. Connect your sources. EdgeTrace joins your existing VMS, NVR, or cloud storage, and ONVIF cameras on confirmed profiles can feed it directly.
  3. Index on the appliance. There's no labeling pass and no model tuning, which matters if your team has no machine learning staff.
  4. Query in plain English across a camera fleet and a time window, then review match scores and timestamps.
  5. Export the clip with chain-of-custody metadata, redact bystanders, and share a link with detectives, prosecutors, or a partner agency.

Product Information

A quick look at EdgeTrace's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.

Free PlanNo
Paid PlansCustom quote
PlatformWeb app; on-prem appliance; ONVIF cameras; Genetec, Milestone, Avigilon and S3 video sources
DeveloperEdgeTrace, Inc.
CategoryVideo
Release DateDec 2023
Latest UpdatedOct 2026
Website VisitsN/A
Website Global Rank10.7M
API AvailabilityYes

Best for

The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.

Users

  • Patrol and investigations units
  • Real-time crime center analysts
  • Campus, transit, and critical infrastructure security teams
  • Fusion and partner-agency analysts

Tasks

  • Finding every appearance of a vehicle
  • Tracking a person camera to camera
  • Catching a behavior, not a keyword
  • Preparing an evidence package

Scenarios

  • A reported break-in with no suspect
  • An in-progress call
  • A budget cycle

Key features

Plain-Language Video Search

The core of the product is a search box that takes ordinary English. You describe the object, the action, or the moment, and EdgeTrace returns matches ranked by score with timestamps attached. Queries run across every connected camera at once, so a search doesn't stop at the edge of one parking lot.

Runs On The VMS You Already Have

EdgeTrace joins Genetec, Milestone, Avigilon, and S3 storage rather than asking you to rip out a working system. It indexes in place and can phase out the old VMS later if you want. That keeps the migration cost down and lets a small agency pilot the search layer without replacing hardware.

Behavior Alerts And Restricted Zones

Beyond object search, EdgeTrace flags actions: someone reaching into a baggage carousel, loitering past a threshold, or crossing a line you drew on the building model. Alerts arrive as a location on that model, not as a camera number, which shortens the gap between a flag and a response.

Camera-To-Camera Subject Tracking

Once a subject is identified, re-identification follows that person or vehicle across the fleet and stitches the appearances into one thread. Investigators get a route instead of a folder of unrelated clips, and the same logic supports live interception while a call is still open.

Chain Of Custody From Query To Courtroom

Chain of custody video export is built into the same screen as the search. Every query, viewer, export, and edit is signed and timestamped. Exports carry hash-signed metadata and query lineage, plus a printable affidavit describing how the evidence was surfaced. For a prosecutor, that record is the difference between a clip and an exhibit.

On-Prem And Air-Gapped Deployment

The appliance sits inside the agency network, and footage plus indexes stay there. A fusion or high-security site can run fully isolated, with model updates delivered on signed media. EdgeTrace states contractually that it doesn't train on, retain, or repurpose agency video.

Automatic Redaction On Export

Faces, plates, and bystanders are blurred on export according to policy, and reversing a redaction requires logged supervisor approval. That cuts the manual editing step that usually delays a public records release or a defense disclosure.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Search works on the camera fleet an agency already owns, so there's no camera replacement project before the first query.
  • On-prem and air-gapped options answer the data sovereignty objection that blocks most cloud video analytics in public safety.
  • Ranked results with match scores and timestamps give an investigator a defensible starting point, not a black box.
  • Audit logging covers the query itself, which matters when a defense attorney asks how a clip was found.
  • Automatic redaction removes a slow manual step from records requests and disclosures.

Cons

  • No public pricing and no self-serve trial, so a small department can't test the search quality before a procurement cycle.
  • The product is shaped around public safety work, and a retail or logistics team would pay for investigative features it never uses.
  • Search quality tracks camera coverage and image quality, which means a site with old hardware and poor angles sees weaker matches.
  • Air-gapped sites receive model updates on signed media, so improvements arrive on a slower cadence than on a connected install.

Frequently asked questions

It turns a camera network into something you can question. You type a description of a vehicle, person, or behavior, and EdgeTrace returns ranked clips with timestamps from across every connected camera. Investigators then export the clip with a chain-of-custody record.