Hanwha Vision’s mission is to provide the most advanced solutions for securing people, property, and data while delivering a superior customer experience through continuous innovation, unparalleled service, and the highest standards of integrity.
Campus Safety spoke with Hanwha Vision Executive Vice President of North American Sales, Marketing and Operations Tom Cooks to find out what visitors to his company’s booth can expect to see at GSX September 29 – October 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Campus Safety: What is the top product or offering Hanwha Vision is showing off at GSX this year, and what makes it special?
Tom Cook: Hanwha Vision is introducing a new cloud-hosted access control solution called OnCAFE, with software developed entirely by our new Hanwha Software Engineering Team. OnCAFE will support one-, two- and four-door control panels, also developed by us, and we will resell the hardware to offer a full solution for our cloud ecosystem. This will be an open platform system that can integrate with any VMS; it’s already integrated into our WAVE VMS and our cloud video solution, OnCloud.
CS: How does it apply to healthcare facilities, schools and/or higher education security, public safety, and/or emergency management?
Cook: Each of these verticals requires the integration of products into one solution so there is interaction with several systems such as video, access, audio, and emergency management. Most of these verticals deploy all of these systems, but many are either disconnected, or the individual companies’ products may not work together well. Our products will have a seamless integration for these key verticals, especially K-12 and healthcare facilities that want to see video connected to access control.
CS: What other products or offerings would you like to highlight, and what are some of their qualities and benefits?
Cook: We are highlighting OnCloud, our new cloud VMS offering. The marketplace is looking for fully remote capabilities. Cloud management and storage on the camera with exception reporting upstream is where we see markets moving for many applications, especially K-12, healthcare, and other verticals. Customers want to control, view, export, and modify employee access remotely. OnCloud allows this via its mobile application, which gives users full administration capabilities.
CS: How do your company and its offerings address the needs of hospitals, schools, and/or universities?
Cook: Hanwha Vision has been developing innovative new products for healthcare and education for years. Many of the new requests from these key verticals include how to use AI, not only for advanced security needs like weapons detection, but also for operational needs such as detecting blocked doors or preventing patients falling out of bed.
These specific AI requests become difficult for each video manufacturer to develop with great accuracy. Hanwha Vision has focused on working with NVIDIA to use their GPU running its Metropolis ecosystem. Now we have a true, open platform for any of our AI partners to run on our multisensor camera or AI Box with the traditional cameras they already have in place.
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Hanwha Vision’s multisensor camera is the only one of its kind and delivers more than 100 TOPS (Tera operations per second) in the camera compared to high-end cameras that would have 4 to 5 TOPS at best. Our AI Box allows existing non-AI security cameras to take advantage of video analytics and AI capabilities, without having to rip and replace their entire environment. Schools can upgrade at their own pace.
This device also deploys the NVIDIA GPU, so as long as our AI partners can work on this platform, they can import their specific AI attributes to provide additional support for our customers.
CS: What else is new or noteworthy about your company for 2025?
Cook: Hanwha Vision became a public company on the South Korean stock exchange in January 2025 but it’s still part of the overall conglomerate of Hanwha Group, a more than $60B company. We have transformed our company from a traditional camera manufacturer to a security solutions provider with new audio, access, and video software solutions.
CS: What is your company’s overall value proposition to schools, universities, and/or hospitals? Why should they do business with you?
Cook: Hanwha Vision is one of the top video security companies in North America, providing consistent innovations to the security marketplace. That begins with R&D and building our own Wisenet SoC (System on a Chip), which is the brain of the cameras we produce.
Hanwha Vision is also the only major video manufacturer that has its own manufacturing plants to support growing volume, changes in the global supply chain, tariff uncertainty and the inventory issues that can be avoided by dynamically changing due to component shortages. These capabilities allow Hanwha Vision to deliver consistent production and inventory for our customers.
We have expanded our R&D and built a software center in Carlsbad, Calif., that will provide our customers with new solutions to enhance their security capabilities to be supported fully by Hanwha.
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Finally, our quality control and cybersecurity are the best in the industry, built into all our products to ensure that when you buy Hanwha Vision products, they will have the best security and the longest life.
Visit Hanwha Vision at GSX 2025, booth No. 2326.
