SAN MATEO, CA, July 7, 2026 – Verkada is collaborating with NVIDIA on physical AI systems for video analytics and search across schools, hospitals, retailers, manufacturers and other built environments. NVIDIA has also joined as an investor in Verkada, following Alphabet CapitalG’s investment last year. Verkada systems operate across more than 2.4 million devices in 170 countries and 30,000 organizations.
“Verkada has been building and deploying Physical AI before the term existed. With our footprint of more than 2.4 million devices across 170 countries and 30,000 organizations, we’ve proven that the built environment is one of the largest beneficiaries of AI,” said Filip Kaliszan, co-founder and CEO of Verkada. “Working with NVIDIA supercharges what we’ve spent nearly a decade building: AI that keeps students safe in schools, protects workers on factory floors, helps retailers prevent theft, and enables organizations to operate more efficiently.”
The collaboration covers AI-powered video search, multimodal embeddings, vector retrieval for semantic search and synthetic data generation for training datasets.
Verkada is using NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models and NVIDIA Physical AI Data Factory for model training and inference on NVIDIA accelerated computing. Since the collaboration began, Verkada said it improved the mean average precision of its AI-powered search by 68% for spatial-temporal understanding.
Verkada is also developing a multi-model search agent architecture and exploring reasoning models for unstructured scenarios. Use cases include identifying health and safety incidents on manufacturing floors and detecting shrinkage in retail environments.
Source: Verkada
About Verkada
Verkada is a U.S. security technology company founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, CA. The company develops cloud-managed systems for physical security and workplace operations. Its products include video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, intrusion alarms, intercoms, workplace management and mailroom management software. Verkada also provides a cloud-based platform for monitoring and administration. Its customers include businesses, schools, health care providers, retailers, manufacturers, and government organizations. The company serves organizations that manage offices, campuses, warehouses and industrial facilities. Its systems support building security, access management, environmental monitoring and workplace operations. Verkada reports more than 31,000 customers worldwide and nearly 2,200 employees globally. The company operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.