UK VSaaS Startup Ocucon

Published Jul 03, 2018 15:05 PM

Decreasing exposure to fraudulent slip-and-fall insurance claims and lawsuits is one of the oldest selling points of video surveillance for retail. Providing video evidence of an incident that happened 4-6 months prior is a challenge for traditional NVR-based solutions.

VSaaS systems, with no-limit cloud-based storage, offer a solution to that challenge.

In this note we profile Ocucon, a UK-based VSaaS startup, who is selling the ability to "See Everything Know Everything", and actively marketing the retail vertical, based on a conversation with the CTO, examining:

  • Company Overview
  • Platform Overview
  • Developed for Retail
  • Face Redaction / GDPR Impact
  • Bundled Internet
  • Pricing
  • Competitors
  • Channel Partners
  • Challenges to US Expansion
  • Growth Plan
  • Outlook

Company ********

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Platform ********

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Developed *** ******

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Channel ********

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Aggressive ****** *******

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Comments (3)
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Undisclosed #1
Jul 05, 2018
IPVMU Certified

VSaaS systems, with no-limit cloud-based storage, offer a solution to that challenge.

When you say no-limit, you just mean on the incoming bandwidth, not retention, correct?

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Sean Patton
Jul 05, 2018

There's no practical or technical size limits on either bandwidth or retention, using any major cloud-based (Google, AWS, Azure, etc..) storage solution.

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Sean Patton
Jul 05, 2018

Are you asking relative to Ocucon's platform or the cloud storage providers?

My previous response was pertaining to the cloud backend, Ocucon only provides "in-the-box" price estimates up to 12 months retention, but indicated that longer retention periods are available. I will follow up with them regarding any maximum retention limits to their platform.