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We accelerate the next generation of smart security and safety solutions through joint innovation with customers and partners.
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We are an award-winning German startup with locations in Munich, Eindhoven and Pittsburgh. We are 100% funded by the Bosch Group.
Our goal is to be the leading open platform and marketplace for smart security and safety solutions. The platform we offer is based on a camera operating system that powers cameras from various manufacturers on the market. It connects to our Application Store where leading video analytics development companies offer cutting-edge apps. To run this platform, we take a commission for app sales.
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The idea for Azena was initially launched as a growth project within Bosch. Very quickly it became clear, that this idea can best accelerate and grow in an external company. In August 2018, the company was founded with Hartmut Schaper (CEO) and Stefanie Grimm (CFO) as managing directors.
The idea for Security & Safety Things is born.
Munich is founded as the company's HQ, with Eindhoven as the development hub for our operating system.
Collaboration initiative that enables value added innovations in security and safety, designed around real customer needs.
S&ST opens a new development hub in the US.
Security & Safety Things introduces a new logo.
For the first time, the platform and current development state are presented to the industry.
S&ST platform-powered video analytics installation goes live with our first customer.
The Application Store opens to the public, more than 30 apps are already live.
The platform is open for sign-up. Along with it, our new logo is published.
Among others, Hanwha Techwin, Vivotek, and Bosch support our Application Store with camera models of all sizes and form factors.
Our first all-digital ecosystem conference takes place with many high-profile speakers from the industry.
Security & Safety Things becomes Azena, underscoring company growth and ambition to redefine video analytics.
The Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA) is a collaboration initiative that brings together like-minded organizations in order to create a framework providing standards and specifications for common components including an operating system, IoT infrastructure, collective approach for data security and privacy, and a drive for improved levels of performance for security and safety solutions.
Join OSSA to contribute to the Azena platform development.
We take pride in the many companies that trust and support our platform and are active contributors to the ecosystem. Here is a selection of our partners.
Companies like Azena with its IoT platform and Application Store, [...], are revolutionizing the video surveillance industry by bringing a new generation of software-driven solutions to the market.
Market players can mix and match apps from the Azena Application Store or develop software apps to create a novel solution.
Azena is leading the change in the security camera market.
...with the Application Store going from zero to 70 apps in one year, it’s clear that many users, SIs, developers and manufacturers see the benefits of an open, standardised system like the one Azena has developed.
This is the first time since the analog that we have a standard in this industry. […] Tech companies will jump on this to sell their apps onto the cameras for all different things.
It’s a proven game-changing business model after all. Bosch’s innovation and market lead here is to be applauded.