Totem partners with Milestone to expand 24/7 video monitoring operations. Partnership gives U.S. monitoring centers a path to combine Milestone's advanced video management capabilities with scalable, human-led remote monitoring. Totem, a provider of remote video monitoring and security operations support, has announced a partnership with Milestone Systems to combine Milestone's video management software with Totem's 24/7 remote monitoring capabilities. The collaboration aims to help security providers and monitoring centers deliver more comprehensive, video-based security services. Turning video intelligence into action. Modern video management systems collect, organize and analyze vast amounts of security data. However, access to video alone does not guarantee an effective response when incidents occur. Security teams must determine who will monitor events, verify alarms, assess potential threats and initiate appropriate responses. Through this partnership, Totem provides an operational extension to existing security infrastructure, helping monitoring centers turn video intelligence into active, around-the-clock security operations. Milestone's open-platform XProtect(R) video management software supports a broad ecosystem of cameras, devices, applications and integrations. Its partner ecosystem emphasizes technical collaboration and solutions designed to deliver customer value. Totem complements this technology with trained operators, continuous monitoring, video verification and scalable monitoring capacity. The company supports thousands of cameras across commercial and industrial environments, combining human oversight with advanced video analytics and other technologies. "Milestone gives security professionals an exceptionally powerful video management platform. Totem helps make sure that capability doesn't stop at the screen," said Luis Fernando Uribe Blum, CEO of Totem. "Our role is to bring the operational side of security into the equation, including trained people, 24/7 coverage, verification, and response. For monitoring centers, that creates an opportunity to take on more video, offer more proactive services, and deliver greater value to their customers without having to build an entirely new monitoring operation themselves." From video management to video action. The growth of video surveillance has created a challenge for security providers: organizations are deploying more cameras and expanding coverage areas, while expecting their systems to support prevention, verification and real-time response rather than simply recording incidents. For monitoring centers, every additional camera can increase the volume of alerts, events and video feeds operators must manage. Building the infrastructure and staffing needed to support this growth internally can be costly and difficult to scale. Totem offers an alternative by extending existing monitoring operations. Its monitoring professionals can review events, verify alarms and support response protocols around the clock. This approach combines technology-driven detection with human judgment and operational context, helping security providers manage increasingly sophisticated video environments. A partnership built on open video technology. Milestone's open-platform approach enables security solutions to evolve through a broad technology ecosystem rather than requiring organizations to rely on a single technology stack. Its Technology Partner Program supports verified integrations, technical collaboration and the delivery of complementary capabilities to the market. The partnership aligns with Totem's approach of working alongside the technologies that security providers already use. Its monitoring infrastructure supports multiple security technologies and video platforms, while its service models offer dedicated monitoring teams, flexible arrangements, rapid onboarding and scalable capacity. For U.S. central stations and monitoring centers, this creates an opportunity to expand video monitoring services without taking on the entire operational burden internally. Monitoring centers may already have established customer relationships, video management software, cameras and security infrastructure. The additional requirement may simply be the capacity to monitor more activity effectively. Totem aims to provide that capacity. Expanding monitoring capacity without replacing existing operations. The partnership is designed to complement, rather than replace, existing monitoring centers. U.S. monitoring providers can use Totem's services to support overnight coverage, video verification, higher camera volumes and customers requiring more advanced video monitoring. This model allows monitoring centers to pursue new service opportunities while retaining control of their customer relationships and existing operations. It also offers a scalable approach as customers add cameras or expand their facilities. Rather than increasing their own staffing, facilities and infrastructure at the same rate, monitoring centers can extend their capabilities through Totem's remote monitoring services. "The security industry has spent years investing in better cameras, better analytics, and better video management," said Luis Fernando Uribe Blum, CEO of Totem. "The next question is how we operationalize all of that intelligence. Our partnership with Milestone allows us to help monitoring centers bridge that gap. We bring the people and operational expertise that turn a sophisticated video environment into an active security service." The collaboration reflects a broader shift toward combining advanced video technology with human-led monitoring to support proactive, continuous security operations. Totem provides remote video monitoring, alarm verification and security operations support for U.S. security providers and monitoring centers. Its services combine trained monitoring professionals, advanced video analytics, redundant infrastructure and 24/7 operations to help customers expand monitoring capacity. Totem supports commercial and industrial environments across retail, logistics, healthcare, financial services, construction and transportation. Milestone Systems is a global provider of data-driven video technology serving industries including manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, retail and traffic management. Its product portfolio includes XProtect video management software, BriefCam AI-powered analytics and Arcules cloud video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), helping organizations use video technology to support safety and operational objectives. Internal Links URLs External Links URLs Frequently asked questions (faqs). 1. What is the Totem and Milestone Systems partnership? The partnership combines Milestone's XProtect video management software ecosystem with Totem's 24/7 remote monitoring services to help security providers expand video-based security operations. 2. How does Totem support monitoring centers? Totem provides trained operators, continuous monitoring, video verification and scalable operational support to help monitoring centers manage security events and respond to alarms. 3. Does the partnership replace existing monitoring operations? No. Totem is designed to complement existing monitoring centers, helping them expand services while maintaining their customer relationships and established operations. 4. How can U.S. monitoring centers benefit from the partnership? They can expand overnight coverage, manage additional cameras, provide video verification and offer advanced monitoring services without necessarily building equivalent staffing and infrastructure internally. 5. What role does Milestone XProtect play? XProtect is Milestone's open-platform video management software, supporting a broad ecosystem of cameras, devices, applications and integrations.

Nvidia's AI tools drive smart city pilots across Europe. Tue, 27th Oct 2026 (Today) Cities and software partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa are using Nvidia's AI and digital twin tools for urban operations, spanning local government, transport, buildings and public services. Nvidia identified deployments and pilots in the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden and other markets. Partners include ABA Technology, Akila, Galene AI, Honeywell Technologies, K2K, Linker Vision, Milestone, Onetera, ThinkDeep and Younite AI. The work focuses on systems that analyse video, sensor and historical data to support decisions on infrastructure repairs, mobility management and energy use in public assets. Nvidia's Cosmos models, Metropolis Blueprint for video search and summarisation, Nemotron models and Omniverse libraries are being used to build AI agents and digital twins for those tasks. UK projects In the UK, the Liverpool City Region is exploring work with K2K on AI factories built with Nvidia accelerated computing, Cosmos and the video search and summarisation blueprint. The tests focus on mobility and safety applications in urban planning and public services. The Island of Jersey is also working with K2K on projects linked to decision-making, mobility, urban planning, clean energy and public services. Innovation City Belfast is exploring a pilot with the same partner covering smart mobility, transport systems, citizen safety, and event and response management. French roll-out In France, the Department of Côte-d'Or worked with Akila and ThinkDeep to build operations agents in a sovereign digital twin using Nemotron, Omniverse and accelerated computing. Cosmos is due to be adopted for video data in that project. The system covers more than 500 public buildings and supports energy, compliance, safety and climate resilience. According to Nvidia, the agents cut document search time from weeks to minutes and reduced total operating costs by 10%, with a target of 30% at scale. Elsewhere in France, Port Sud de France in Sète is using ThinkDeep's platform to analyse cargo and safety data, coordinate operations, and guide the handling of hazardous materials. Italian expansion In the Milan region, Galene AI, Dell Technologies and TD Synnex are deploying a locally operated AI factory, starting with Cinisello Balsamo and planning to extend it to four more municipalities. Listed services include real-time translation, citizen chatbots and support for procurement and funding work. The aim is to reduce administrative effort and speed access to municipal data while keeping governance of that data at local level. Ports and cities At the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium, Milestone and Dell Technologies are testing agentic vision AI for use cases including oil-spill warnings. The work uses Cosmos and the video search and summarisation blueprint, alongside synthetic data for scenarios where real-world incident data is limited. In Sweden, Younite AI is developing a digital twin experience for Gothenburg using Omniverse libraries as part of the EU's Citiverse initiative. The focus is on accessibility, including previews of event entrances, seating and crowd conditions before arrival. The broader goal is to adapt these applications to local requirements and extend them across departments and neighbouring municipalities, including in places such as Wroclaw in Poland. Infrastructure layer Nvidia also outlined the infrastructure stack being assembled around these projects. System builders and infrastructure partners including Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro are packaging Nvidia computing, networking and storage into locally operated AI factories for cities. These systems are intended to let public bodies customise and run AI applications locally while retaining control over data, models and operations. Nvidia also named Nebius and Net Zero Compute as part of the ecosystem building AI factories aimed at reducing the cost of agentic services. Consultancies including EY and Accenture are providing integration and operational work to connect applications with city systems. That support is intended to help local authorities create repeatable deployment blueprints that can be adapted across departments as needs change. Outside Europe, Honeywell Technologies is deploying Forge Cognition at the Dubai Fairmont Hotel using Nvidia Nemotron, Cosmos, Omniverse and the video search and summarisation blueprint to connect AI agents with building systems for reliability, energy efficiency and operations.

Milestone Systems showcases AI-powered video technology for Qatar's smart, secure future at Milipol Qatar 2026. Milestone Systems, a world leader in data-driven video technology, is exhibiting at Milipolis Qatar 2026 to show how organizations in Qatar can capture everything, understand what matters, and act with confidence through an open technology ecosystem. Qatar continues to invest in smart cities, world-class venues and critical national infrastructure in line with Qatar National Vision 2030. As a result, security and operations teams are managing more cameras, more data and more complexity than ever. They also need video intelligence that is accurate, trusted, and compliant with national requirements for data protection and sovereignty. At Milipol Qatar 2026, Milestone Systems, alongside its technology partners onexao, Eluviant, Nedap, Saimos, Suprema, and Tiger Surveillance, will showcase how its open platform brings video management, cloud, analytics, and AI together to manage growing volumes of video into clear, actionable intelligence. Visitors can explore the latest capabilities across XProtect, Arcules, and BriefCam. Capture everything XProtect provides a scalable foundation for managing video and sensor data across city-wide and multi-site deployments, supporting more than 16,300 camera and device models globally. Recent updates include automated system health reporting through XProtect Remote Manager and tighter integration between video and access control. Understand what matters With AI Search, operators can describe what they are looking for in natural language and quickly find the relevant video. On-premises AI Search through BriefCam is designed for secure and air-gapped environments, a key requirement for government, critical infrastructure, and high-security sites. It is planned for availability by the end of 2026. "Qatar is one of the most ambitious markets in the region when it comes to smart cities, major events, and critical infrastructure. Customers here operate at a scale where the challenge is no longer adding more cameras; it's turning video data into decisions, securely and with full control of their data. At Milipol Qatar, we are showing how Milestone's open platform, together with our partners, helps organizations modernize at their own pace, keep sensitive data on their own premises when needed, and use AI responsibly," said Hani AlHendi, Sales Manager, Middle East - META, Milestone Systems Milestone's open platform will also be demonstrated together with technology and channel partners, showing how organizations in Qatar can connect video with complementary technologies and specialized solutions. Middle East News 247 produces the latest news for the Middle East region, with a key focus on the GCC nations: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. Contact News Desk: [email protected] Follow Me: