Octave operates primarily where security and operations are mission critical: public safety, critical infrastructure and industrial environments. As Tidebrink described, Octave thrives in sectors “where there’s effectively zero downtime, so, if seconds are lost, that means, potentially, lives could be at risk.” The company’s applications also span transportation, networks, utilities, energy and other complex infrastructure ecosystems.

“We don’t just deliver the standalone security tools,” Tidebrink said. “We’re also providing that integrated ecosystem that can combine video management with LiDAR [light detection and ranging]-based spatial intelligence and real-time incident response.”

For physical security applications, Octave unifies previously siloed systems (i.e. video surveillance, access control, perimeter detection) into a single, contextualized platform with the goal of enabling faster, more coordinated and proactive security response. The company’s platform supports the full customer lifecycle: designing, building, operating and protecting. “Our advantage is in combining all four faces through a more unified platform enables a smoother handover, better data continuity and more informed decision-making across the whole lifecycle,” Tidebrink said.

This is exemplified by a recent case study from a financial capital and transportation hub in Frankfurt, Germany. The transportation hub used Octave’s Coda, an enterprise-grade video management software (VMS) designed to boost ecosystem connectivity, to begin monitoring a vast amount of video data. Pairing this capability with Octave’s computer-aided dispatch allowed the transportation hub able to coordinate and accelerate emergency response. “They’ve created a more real-time view of the operations and really improved that situational awareness and those response times,” Tidebrink said.

“What we’d like to see in the future is potentially combining that with LiDAR as well, so you can have an incident management into a single ecosystem,” Tidebrink added. Among Octave’s future goals is also growth in industries the company is already established in, especially those critical environments where reliability and performance is what matters most.

“Retail is a big one for us, as well, in terms of doubling down on the ‘protect’ pillar, and particularly in physical security,” Tidebrink said. “We have great success stories across some of the largest retail chains in Europe, especially with solutions that integrate a point of sales and data into our security platform. We’re hoping to bring that into North America.”

As Octave navigates the future as a standalone company prepared to double down on physical security, the team plans to continue heavily investing in R&D and cross areas like Coda Spatial, a 3D LiDAR-based technology for reliable, accurate detection; AI; and video analytics to keep advancing capabilities and give its customers and partners broader security capabilities.