Notes from the Field
A numbered series on AI in physical security, written by someone who spent 21 years as the end user.
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Seven days is the best thing that ever happened to real-time crime centers.
If the value of your crime center depends on 30 days of stored plates, is it a crime center, or a records room with better lighting?
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Your drone program has a new price tag and thirteen days to read it
A 100 percent tariff on the exact machines drone-as-first-responder programs buy, and four moves that redraw the whole procurement picture.
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Write it into the contract
Thirty days redrew what separates one plate reader vendor from another. It isn't camera count or price anymore. It's governance, and it belongs in the contract.
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The bug was old enough to rent a car. The camera on your wall is running older code than that.
An AI model found a 17-year-old root exploit for under two thousand dollars. The camera on your wall is running older code than that.
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Both of them typed a reason. The system wrote it down.
Two license plate cases, eight days apart. Both officers entered a justification. A required reason field is an attestation, not a fact.
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We taught agents to act. We didn't teach them to leave a receipt.
When an AI agent takes an action inside a physical security system, what record does it leave behind? I went looking. I don't think I can finish this alone.
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A camera company just treated an AI agent as its user.
Rhombus gave Claude Code the keys to its camera platform: a site map, tool docs, credentials, and permission to work. The first vendor to design for an agent as the user.
NO. 03 and 05 ran in other formats; NO. 10 lands here after it publishes on LinkedIn. The discussion happens on LinkedIn.