i-PRO Co. (formerly Panasonic Security), a global company in professional security and public safety solutions, announced Version 3.0 of i-PRO Active Guard, the company’s AI-powered intelligent search software. This latest release introduces free text search powered by generative AI, designed to enable security teams to interact with video management systems (VMS) using natural language and everyday expressions for filtering.

Security operators can now type queries, such as “fire truck,” “person who fell down,” or “electric scooter,” and receive precise results, even if those parameters were never manually tagged. The new release of Active Guard Version 3.0 now introduces free text search powered by generative AI.

i-PRO Active Guard 3.0 combines edge-processed analytics in i-PRO AI-enabled cameras with a server-based generative AI engine. Users do not need to replace existing i-PRO AI cameras to take advantage of this new software update. 

With the X-Series camera AI processing relay feature, Active Guard 3.0 can extend GenAI search capabilities to non-AI cameras, including cameras from other manufacturers.

Version 3.0 also introduces ‘Person Image Similarity Search’ using Person Re-Identification technology. Person Image Similarity Search enables operators to locate visually similar appearances within video footage.