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Cybersecurity — AI Video Surveillance Manhattan & the NY/NJ Metro
AI Security Cameras that know what they’re looking at.
Cameras that tell a person from a passing car, catch a break-in the moment it happens, and let you find a moment by describing it — instead of walls of footage no one watches. NYC IT Works designs UniFi Protect AI camera systems for businesses across the NY & NJ metro, with the intelligence running on the cameras and the footage recorded on your own network. It starts with a free Security Assessment, not a guessed quote.
On-Camera AI · Footage Stays On-site · No Monthly Cloud
HOW DOES AI CAPABLE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ENHANCE YOUR PROTECTION
Powered by UniFi Protect AI - Every camera reads the scene — and flags only what matters.
On a UniFi Protect system the intelligence runs on the camera itself, not a monthly cloud subscription — so detection, search and recording all happen on your own network. Here is what that AI actually does for you.
TELLS PEOPLE FROM MOTION
Person & Vehicle Detection
UniFi Protect smart detections separate people and vehicles from wind, rain, headlights and shadows on the camera itself — so an after-hours alert means someone is really there, and you choose which detections actually notify you.
NOT JUST VIDEO INTELLIGENCE
Glass-Break & Audio Detection
Beyond what it sees, a UniFi Protect camera can listen for trouble — breaking glass, a smoke or CO alarm — and flag it the instant it happens, even when nothing crossed the frame. In a closed clinic, office or venue after hours, that is the difference between knowing now and finding out tomorrow.
SECURE YOUR PROPERTY SMARTLY
Detection Zones & Line-Crossing
Draw activity zones and tripwire lines in the Protect app — the loading dock after hours, a line across the stockroom door — so the system flags the crossings that matter and stays quiet on the street traffic that doesn’t.
AI SMART SEARCH
Find it by Describing it
Search recorded footage in the Protect app by what you’re looking for — a person, a vehicle, a colour, a zone — and jump straight to the clip in seconds instead of scrubbing hours of video.
COUNTS THE ROOM
People Counting & Occupancy
UniFi Protect AI cameras count people in and out and read how full a space is — live occupancy and footfall by hour — turning the same cameras that protect the floor into business data most operators buy separately.
ACTS THE MOMENT IT SEES
Alarm Manager Automations
Link a detection to an action in UniFi Protect’s Alarm Manager — flash a light, sound a chime, push an alert or start a recording rule — so the system responds the instant something crosses a line, instead of only when you review it later.
ORDINARY CAMERAS VS AI ENHANCED CAMERAS
What the "AI" actually Changes.
A cheap camera records everything and tells you nothing until after the fact. AI cameras flag what matters, let you find it fast, and keep the footage on your own network.
WHAT MATTERS
ORDINARY SECURITY CAMERAS
NYC IT WORKS - AI Powered Surveillance
Person & Smart Detection — Alerts that mean something
AI Smart Search — describe it, jump to it
Glass-Break & Audio Detection Flag it Live
Recorded on your own network, no cloud bill
People-counting, occupancy & dwell built in, plus business intelligence metrics
Monitored and supported by one team, remote and on-site across NY & NJ
Manual Footage Review - Time Consuming
No Context, Motion Based
Basic Motion Detection
Someone else's cloud, monthly fees, storage limitations
None, flat surveillance
Security Alerts
After Hours Events
Where Footage is Stored
Business Data
Finding and Creating Footage Review Cases
When it Breaks
Unreliable, No support plans, hourly charges
NYC IT Works designs, monitors and supports AI surveillance across the NY & NJ metro — the intelligence on the cameras, the footage on your own network — so the answer is already waiting when you need it.
BEYOND SECURITY
Your Cameras become Business Intelligence.
Because the AI counts people and reads occupancy, the same system that protects the floor also tells you how it performs — footfall by hour, how long people dwell, which entrances and displays pull traffic. For multi-location brands we pair the cameras with dedicated people-counting and footfall analytics, so loss-prevention and merchandising run off one platform instead of two.
EXPLORE HOW INTELLIGENT CAMERAS PLAY INTO YOUR BUSINESS SECURITY
The Rest of the Physical-and-Cyber Stack.
Cameras are one layer. Here’s what they connect to — all on one network, supported by one team.
SMART SPACES
Property Intelligence
The experience layer the cameras sit in — audio, signage, lighting and sensing on one managed network.
Explore Smart Spaces →
CYBERSECURITY
Access Control & Door Entry
Door events line up with camera footage — one app shows who opened what, and when.
Explore Cybersecurity →
CYBERSECURITY
24/7 Detection & Response
A SOC watching the network the cameras ride on — every connected device is a computer to secure.
Explore Cybersecurity →
NETWORKS
BUSINESS & GUEST WI-FI
The network that carries every camera — segmented so devices can’t reach your payments or data.
Explore Networks →
PARTNER
THE PLATFORM BEHIND YOUR INTELLIGENT CAMERAS
We build video surveillance on Ubiquiti UniFi Protect — AI cameras, a local recorder and a single app — so detection, smart search, people-counting and your recorded footage are designed, monitored and managed as one on-premise system.
INSIDE UNIFI PROTECT CAMERAS
More than Cameras — a Platform you Control.
Anyone can hang a camera. What makes this a security system for regulated work is everything behind the lens: on-premise AI, footage that never leaves your network, an audit trail of who saw what, and one app that ties it all together.
ON-PREM BY DESIGN
Edge AI, on your Network
The AI runs on the camera itself — or on a UniFi AI Key or AI Port added to the recorder — and footage records to a UniFi Protect NVR on your own network. Neither the video nor the analysis is sent to a vendor cloud. For a clinic, school or firm handling sensitive footage, that on-premise model is the whole point.
ONE SYSTEM, EVERY ANGLE
The right camera for every spot
Bullet, turret, dome, PTZ, wide-angle and video-doorbell cameras — indoor, weatherproof outdoor and low-light — chosen per location and all managed and recorded in the same Protect app. A mixed property is still one system, not four.
INVESTIGATE IN SECONDS
Find a moment across every camera
Protect’s Find Anything and multi-camera tracking let you pick a person or object and see everywhere it appears — or describe what you’re after and jump straight to it — across all your cameras at once. An investigation that meant scrubbing hours takes seconds. It matches on appearance and objects, not identity — no facial recognition.
FOOTAGE ON YOUR TERMS
Your recorder, your retention
A UniFi Protect recorder — a UNVR or an Enterprise NVR — with redundant RAID storage sized to the retention you need, whether that’s 30, 60 or 90 days or more. It’s kept on-site, so adding cameras or extending retention never triggers an escalating cloud bill.
SEE IT FROM ANYWHERE
One Secure app
Live and recorded video in one Protect app on phone, desktop or browser, over a secure connection — with access scoped per person and no camera ever exposed to the open internet. You can check the floor from home or hand a manager their own limited view without giving up the keys.