The Security Challenges Facing Property Managers Today

Commercial real estate operates in a high-stakes environment where tenant safety directly impacts occupancy rates, lease renewals, and asset value. Yet most properties still rely on outdated approaches:

• Guard costs keep climbing — security staffing is one of the largest controllable operating expenses, yet coverage gaps persist during shift changes and overnight hours.
• Camera systems are passive — most buildings have hundreds of cameras that only serve as evidence after an incident, not prevention tools.
• Liability exposure is real — slip-and-fall claims, unauthorized access, and workplace safety incidents create significant risk for property managers and ownership groups.
• Tenant expectations are rising — Class A tenants increasingly demand smart building security as a baseline, not a premium.
• Portfolio visibility is fragmented — managing security across multiple properties means juggling different systems, vendors, and reporting with no unified view.

Kognition AI: Your Building’s Security Intelligence Layer

Kognition is an AI security platform purpose-built for commercial real estate. It works with your existing camera infrastructure — no rip-and-replace required — to deliver real-time threat detection, access intelligence, and building operations analytics from a single dashboard.

Whether you manage a single Class A tower or a portfolio of hundreds of properties, Kognition gives your security team superhuman awareness and your operations team data they’ve never had before.

What Kognition Delivers for Commercial Properties

🏢 Lobby & Common Area Monitoring

AI-powered people detection and behavior analysis across lobbies, elevators, and shared spaces. Detect tailgating, loitering, and unauthorized after-hours access in real time. Kognition’s Watchlist module can identify banned individuals or flag VIPs the moment they enter the building.

🅿️ Parking Garage & Vehicle Intelligence

Automated license plate recognition (LPR) across every garage level. Track occupancy, identify unauthorized vehicles, and manage tenant parking — all without additional hardware. Integrate with access control to automate gate operations and reduce friction for tenants.

🚚 Loading Dock & Service Area Security

Monitor delivery zones for unauthorized access, dwell-time violations, and safety compliance. AI detects vehicles and people in restricted zones and sends instant alerts to security staff — eliminating blind spots in your most vulnerable areas.

🔫 Weapons & Threat Detection

Through our partnership with ZeroEyes, Kognition can detect brandished firearms in real time from existing cameras. In commercial buildings where active threat response time is critical, this capability can save lives and demonstrates a proactive duty of care.

📊 Building Operations Intelligence

Beyond security, Kognition transforms camera feeds into operational data. Track real-time occupancy across floors and common areas, understand foot traffic patterns, and optimize building services — from HVAC scheduling to cleaning crew deployment. Data that was invisible is now actionable.

🏗️ Portfolio-Wide Single Pane of Glass

Manage security and operations across every property in your portfolio from one platform. Standardize policies, compare performance metrics across buildings, and give regional managers unified visibility — whether you have 5 properties or 500.

AI as a Security Force Multiplier

Kognition doesn’t replace your security team — it makes them dramatically more effective. Instead of watching banks of monitors hoping to catch something, your guards receive targeted, real-time alerts with camera snapshots and location context. One guard with Kognition can cover what previously required three.

The result: reduced security staffing costs without sacrificing coverage. Many commercial property clients see 30-50% reductions in guard hours within the first year while actually improving incident response times.

Reduce Liability and Protect Your Assets

AI security for commercial real estate isn’t just about stopping bad actors — it’s about demonstrating a proactive standard of care. Kognition provides:

• Automated incident documentation — AI-generated event logs with video evidence, timestamps, and analytics for insurance and legal proceedings.
• Slip-and-fall detection — identify incidents in real time and dispatch help immediately, reducing claim severity.
• Compliance monitoring — ensure safety protocols are followed in restricted areas, construction zones, and loading docks.
• Audit-ready reporting — demonstrate due diligence to insurers, tenants, and ownership groups with data-backed security metrics.

Tenant Safety Is a Competitive Differentiator

In today’s commercial real estate market, tenants have choices. Buildings that invest in smart building security attract and retain higher-quality tenants, command premium rents, and see lower vacancy rates. Kognition gives you a tangible technology story to tell during tours and lease negotiations.

From frictionless parking to proactive lobby security to real-time threat response — Kognition makes your property the safest, smartest building on the block.

Works With Your Existing Cameras

Kognition integrates with all major camera brands — Axis, Hanwha, Hikvision, Bosch, Milestone, and more. No proprietary hardware. No camera replacement. If your building has IP cameras (and it does), Kognition can be operational in days, not months.

Deployment is fast, non-disruptive, and doesn’t require building-wide downtime. Your tenants won’t even notice — except when they feel safer.

Ready to Transform Your Building Security?

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