Overview
Role:
Design Lead
Duration:
May - Jun 2026
Contribution:
User Research, UI/UX Design, Motion Design
Status Quo
Few operators. Thousands of cameras.
The Problem
Most video walls create an illusion of awareness. Operators don’t know where to look.
🛑 The room feels covered.
But that sense of coverage is misleading.
Video walls rely on operators noticing something unusual. But a rotating grid can’t guarantee the right camera is visible when something happens.
What Truly Matters
“Focus Event” is whatever a sharp operator would naturally focus on — given everything happening across the site right now.
The Focus Event isn’t necessarily a threat. It’s simply the thing most worth looking at right now.
Ideation
A “news agent” for the campus, prioritizing Focus Events to provide a live pulse.
How does it fit into our product?
From 1000 cameras to what matters
The Focus Event Agent turns thousands of camera feeds into a live pulse of what matters. It sits between broad situational awareness and precise threat detection, surfacing relevant events before they become actionable alerts.
How should Focus Events differ from alerts?
Focus Events optimize for attention. Alerts optimize for action.
Where should the Agent live?
Approach 1
🧬 Agentic Cell
Turn any video wall camera cell into a live news feed, surfacing focus events for operators.
✅ Works within the existing video wall
❌ Blends camera feeds with Focus Events
❌ No history of past events
❌ Competes with camera feeds for attention
Approach 2
🧱 Agentic Wall
A dedicated agentic video wall that continuously surfaces both live and past Focus Events.
❌ Requires a dedicated wall
✅ Consistent Focus Event experience
✅ More space to surface past events
✅ More flexibility for configuration
Trade-off
Capability [video wall] > Integration [video cell]
While the Agentic Cell offered tighter integration with the existing video wall, we prioritized a richer Focus Event experience. A dedicated wall gives the agent enough space to surface what matters now, while providing the context and history operators need to understand what’s happening over time. In a GSOC, adding another dedicated screen is a relatively small trade-off.
The goal wasn’t to replace the existing video wall, but to add an intelligent layer on top of it.
Design
1 - The Feeds
Video Wall Layout
V1: Regular video wall layout with focus events
Looks almost the same as regular video wall, hard to notice the difference.
V2: Single focus event + pinned events + past events
Too crowded, hard to manage
V3: Focus events + Past event feed side by side
2 - Live Events
The Agent at Work
Loading State
A scanning animation in the loading state suggests continuous monitoring.
Live Focus Event
A subtle blue pulse around newly surfaced events creates a sense of immediacy
3 - Past Events
Your Feedback Steers AI Recommendations
Pin Valuable Events
Dislike Events
Switch to live view for real-time monitoring
Validation & Engagement
Over 1,200 event interactions in 30 days from 9 customers.
What the agent published in customers accounts:
People carrying heavy item
Person near a camera
Person carrying a large item
Person checking gate controls
Person in server room
Person near a fence
Business & Product Strategy
Agentic Video Wall expands the value of the foundation package
The Agentic Video Wall was designed as part of our Foundation package — giving customers an intelligent VMS experience powered by vision-language models, without requiring them to purchase the full Threat Detection & Response package which remains focused on precise, actionable alerts.