Security, facilities, emergency management
Know who is barred, and who is in the building.
- Your watchlist at the entrances. Existing cameras recognise people on your hospital’s watchlist, such as people under a trespass order or former employees who are barred.
- Everyone checks in the same way. Visitors, vendors and contractors scan a driver’s license at an iPad kiosk, have a photo taken, and get a printed badge.
- A registry check at check-in. The ID is checked against official state sex-offender registry data, by name and date of birth. It never searches the registry by face.
- Your staff make the call. Every possible match goes to staff to review. Vira never turns anyone away on its own.
- An evacuation list, ready when you need it. Everyone checked in and not yet checked out.
- A record of every decision. Every possible match and what staff decided.
IT
Works with your cameras and your other systems.
- Your cameras. Most modern security cameras work. An entrance camera may need to be pointed a little differently so it sees faces, not the tops of heads.
- Your video recorder. If your cameras already feed a video recorder, Vira can usually take the picture from there instead.
- No equipment for the cameras. Vira does the work outside your hospital. It looks at the live picture and lets it go. Nothing is recorded.
- Kiosk. Check-in runs on an iPad with a badge printer.
- Your other systems. Download visits and decisions as a spreadsheet, or link Vira to the software you already run.
Technical details for your IT team
- Cameras
- Most cameras that offer an RTSP stream, H.264 or H.265.
- Video systems
- A DVR, NVR or video management system that re-streams over RTSP.
- Processing
- Off site. Streams travel encrypted, are analysed and dropped, and are never stored.
- Kiosk
- iPad with a badge printer.
- Data out
- CSV exports, an open API and webhooks.
Privacy
No recorded video. Little kept from the license. A person decides.
- No video is recorded. Vira looks at the live picture and lets it go straight away.
- Registry matches go to a person. Registry screening finds possible matches from the ID, never by searching faces. Optionally, staff also see whether the visitor’s photo looks like the registry photo; a person decides.
- Little kept from the license. Name, date of birth and expiry date. The license number is scrambled so it can’t be read back.
- No photos saved. The check-in photo is printed on the badge and not saved. Vira keeps faceprints, not photos.
- Only your watchlist. Cameras only recognise people on your hospital’s watchlist. They don’t look for anyone else.
- Faceprints, said plainly. A faceprint is a set of numbers made from a photo, not the photo itself. For each person on your watchlist, Vira keeps a faceprint until your hospital removes them.
- Visitors’ faceprints are optional and temporary. If your hospital turns on recognising visitors during their visit, a faceprint is made at check-in and deleted at check-out, or when the badge expires.
- No picture from a camera match. Vira keeps the camera, the time and what staff decided.
- Your review, worked through together. We work through your hospital’s privacy and security review with you.
For the executive who signs
The short version.
Vira tells your staff who is coming through the doors, using cameras you already have, in most cases, and a kiosk in the lobby. It records no video, and it never decides on its own. Your people do.
Walk the plan with us.
We’ll walk you through check-in, the registry check and match review, using made-up example data, and answer your security, IT and privacy questions.