Browse video analytics appsOur purpose
We accelerate the next generation of smart security and safety solutions through joint innovation with customers and partners.
About us
Our company
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.
Our management
Our story
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.
Jul 2017
Aug 2018
Security and Safety Things GmbH is founded
Sep 2018
Oct 2018
S&ST joins the Open Security & Safety Alliance
Collaboration initiative that enables value added innovations in security and safety, designed around real customer needs.
Jan 2019
Mar 2019
New logo
Security & Safety Things introduces a new logo.
Apr 2019
Platform presentation at ISC West
For the first time, the platform and current development state are presented to the industry.
Dec 2019
Jan 2020
Official launch of the S&ST Application Store
The Application Store opens to the public, more than 30 apps are already live.
Mar 2020
Official launch of the S&ST platform
The platform is open for sign-up. Along with it, our new logo is published.
Apr 2020
Nov 2020
escon 2020
Our first all-digital ecosystem conference takes place with many high-profile speakers from the industry.
Sep 2021
Renaming to Azena
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.
Learn moreOur partner network
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.
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It’s a proven game-changing business model after all. Bosch’s innovation and market lead here is to be applauded.
Forbes
Security & Safety Things [Azena] is leading the change in the security camera market.
CIOBulletin
Companies like Security & Safety Things [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.
Security Info Watch
Market players can mix and match apps from the Security & Safety Things [Azena] Application Store or develop software apps to create a novel solution.
Security Sales & Integration
...Security & Safety Things [Azena] is an innovator, offering an open camera operating system as well as an app store through which different camera apps supported by the camera OS can be obtained.
a&s Magazine
...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 Security & Safety Things [Azena] has developed.
Hi-Tech Security Solutions Magazine