Wavestore's WaveFusion: Future of security management

The physical security market continues to move at breakneck speed. Artificial intelligence, analytics, the cloud and edge processing have created new, exciting data points for greater situational awareness and enhanced response.

Within this context, unfortunately, come inefficiencies created by years of stitching together disparate solutions that operate in silos and don’t fully integrate with other systems.

Challenges in security

Wavestore’s Blind Spot Summit 2025 at its global headquarters in Ottawa addressed the challenges in security

A unified, design-engineered open platform – one that natively puts video, access control, intrusion and other device connectivity together is coming – and it can move the industry successfully into the future.

Wavestore’s Blind Spot Summit 2025 at its global headquarters in Ottawa addressed the challenges in security, gathering top-tier industry executives and influentials who shared expertise from real-world experience.

Blind Spot 2025 was a place to uncover what’s missing in the security and reimagine what it could look like with the right mechanisms.

What’s missing?

What was confirmed is that there are blind spots in the physical security processes: systems that don’t integrate readily, no clear visibility to connected solutions, closed platforms that limit expansion into new technologies and lack of flexibility to add new points of security and data as the world changes and technology moves forward.

Raf Souccar, former Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), offered insights from managing the most complex security gatherings.

Maintaining security

Thomas Comerford, Former Program Security Manager at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

“When blind spots are removed you give your security team super powers with enhanced situational awareness. Oops, we missed something and failure is not an option,” said Raf Souccar, who handled high-level public events, including the Olympics, adding “Maintaining security while using less security is a bonus. Tightening security without adding personnel is what’s needed and that comes from a unified, integrated and intelligent platform.”

Thomas Comerford, Former Program Security Manager at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recalled 9/11 from his personal experience as a responder who witnessed the buildings topple after helping occupants escape.

Changed building security standards

Comerford spoke of radio communications that didn’t integrate, fragmented intelligence between agencies and an inability to track known threats. The lessons learned changed building security standards and now, video analytics will make those systems smarter and more effective, he said. 

“Video analytics is whatever you can imagine,” said Thomas Comerford, adding “It’s endless the many things you can do with video or audio as a layered defense when it becomes part of proactive, AI-driven anomaly protection. Gaping holes are all over the place. You need the right tools like AI for predictive threat intelligence and that means a move to unified security. The more you can automate response, the faster you can mitigate risk.” (For more sessions and roundtable discussions captured at Blind Spot 2025.)

Integrated security management solution

Every security scenario is unique and requires different strategies and information draws

Every security scenario is unique and requires different strategies and information draws. The challenge is getting the right data to the right place at the right time. Only a fully integrated security management solution – one that brings everything into one place, can eliminate blind spots.

Truth is, many video management systems (VMS) are not built for interoperability with other systems. Most bolt-on new integrations, which can be unwieldly and difficult to update.

Not a bolt-on; made for tomorrow

Now, there are new possibilities for an API-designed, open security platform that gathers, pinpoints and escalates the most pertinent information for the user and the security executive. This type of comprehensive solution manages video footage, handles access control events and draws upon and controls analytics from any modern browser.

That’s the message behind the launch of Wavestore’s WaveFusion. It’s a fusion of video surveillance, access control, intrusion and loT devices that exposes unseen risks and harvests formerly untapped opportunities.

Future scalability and flexibility

The new platform, which will be released in stages later this year, will unify security, video and access control

The new platform, which will be released in stages later this year, will unify security, video and access control for full transparency across systems. It’s made for future scalability, with the flexibility to add and use the most relevant technology and evolve to the industry and the times.

“WaveFusion is a holistic vision for complete security that uses the cloud to deliver the latest capabilities,” said Sam Shalaby, CEO of Wavestore, adding “WaveFusion fuses together all aspects of security. The unified platform is the way forward in our industry. Users will be able to have exactly what they need for security, when they need it. If you don’t have a platform that’s ready for future innovation, you’re back to square one.”

AI advances and integrations

The access control portion of the platform will be released this fall, with plans for the VMS portion to follow in late winter. 

The conversations culled from Blind Spot 2025 revealed that as AI advances and integrations expand, they need to remove fundamental blind spots. That will come from how they design, deploy, and interpret the security infrastructure – to work together in a flexible, open system that can be tailored to the challenges of the user.