Verkada Unveils AI-Powered Tools for Next-Generation School Safety and Incident Response

New AI-driven timeline, proactive alerts, and smarter intercoms help schools investigate incidents in seconds, respond to threats in real-time, and improve communication.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Verkada, a leader in AI-powered physical security technology, today launched a new set of AI-driven safety tools designed specifically to help schools strengthen security, accelerate incident response, and simplify investigations.

"With these updates, Verkada is enabling schools to leverage AI as a force multiplier for campus safety, delivering greater clarity into incidents, better real-time alerts, and improved communication tools," said Abraham Alvarez, Vice President of Product at Verkada. "By integrating investigation, alerting, and communication into one secure platform, schools can better protect their students, staff, and campuses."

AI-Powered Unified Timeline

A first-of-its-kind feature, Verkada's AI-Powered Unified Timeline allows school security teams to visually reconstruct the entire journey of a person or vehicle across campus with a single click. Instead of manually searching through hours of camera footage across multiple cameras, school safety leaders can now generate a complete, map-based timeline of events in seconds. This capability is designed to accelerate investigations such as tracking a missing student, monitoring suspicious behavior, or coordinating emergency response.

Proactive AI-Powered Alerts

To help schools detect threats before they escalate, Verkada expanded its AI-Powered Alerts with two new capabilities:

• Activity Detection Alerts  enable schools to distinguish between routine motion (like students walking along a sidewalk) and high-risk behaviors (like someone climbing a fence or detecting slip and falls). This ensures schools are alerted only when action is needed, particularly for perimeter protection where false alarms are common.
• K-12 Industry-Specific AI Alerts  provide pre-configured notifications for the scenarios that matter most to schools, eliminating guesswork and helping administrators quickly identify the right alerts for their campus safety needs. Pre-built alerts – such as detecting a person with their face fully covered or identifying emergency services vehicles – enable school safety teams to focus on responding, not configuring.

Smarter, Auto-Transcribed Intercoms

Verkada also introduced new accessibility and communication features for its intercom platform:

• With Live Captions, calls on Verkada Desk Station and Pass App (iOS) are now automatically transcribed, with the ability to auto-detect and adjust to conversations in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, and more.
• With AI-Generated Messages, when staff cannot answer a call – whether during after-hours, emergencies, or lockdowns – administrators can instantly generate professional audio messages from typed text, ensuring callers receive timely information.

These AI-powered features allow schools to move from reactive monitoring to proactive safety management. From investigating complex incidents in seconds to receiving intelligent alerts on high-risk activity, Verkada's platform helps school leaders and security staff keep students safe, manage emergencies more effectively, and support diverse communities with accessible communication tools.

These tools are designed to provide school leaders with critical information while operating within district-approved privacy policies, ensuring the focus remains on student safety. New features are available immediately to all Verkada customers.

To learn more about Verkada's school safety solutions, visit www.verkada.com/solutions/k-12. 

About Verkada
Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada's six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms — provide unparalleled building security through an integrated, cloud-based software platform. Over 30,000 organizations across 93 countries worldwide, including 96 of the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. For more information, please visit www.verkada.com.

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