Thales Sentinel protects Eyedea AI visual recognition software

Thales has announced a collaboration with Eyedea, enabling it to deploy and protect its AI-powered and machine learning visual recognition software for global customers using the leading software monetisation and protection Thales Sentinel platform.

The Eyedea AI visual recognition software uses CCTV footage to classify objects such as vehicle make and models, number plates, train carriage numbers and more. Leveraging standard traffic cameras, the technology recognises activities such as distracted drivers, unfastened or fastened seatbelts, and counts passengers for use in environments like carpool lanes. To ensure compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws, the technology can make human factors and vehicle license plates unidentifiable in image data.

Eyedea was originally established in 2006 by a research group from the Czech Technical University in Prague’s Centre for Machine Perception. Customers including international and national police organisations such as Interpol, Europol and the Czech Police

Customers use the Eyedea AI recognition software by embedding it into their existing hardware and software. This is delivered via software development kits (SDKs) supplied by Eyedea, alongside a Thales Sentinel license on a hardware key. The combination of the hardware key along with the SDK assures customers that their access to the software is safeguarded. Further, the team at Eyedea can be sure there’s no unauthorised use or tampering of their software.

The Sentinel Envelope secures the software from breaches, and the Sentinel Licensing further enables Eyedea to offer varying packaging tiers based on customer requirements.

“Thales Sentinel has been able to offer IP protection and flexible packaging as the Eyedea AI-based software has grown to support hundreds of public and private customers worldwide,” commented Damien Bullot, Vice President of Software Monetization at Thales.

“Our customers need to be able to trust that access to our software is safeguarded, while we need to protect our IP and manage our active deployments. Thales Sentinel handels both, and our long-standing partnership with them allows us to scale our revenue streams and focus more of our time on technology innovation,” said Martin Urban, CEO at Eyedea.