London SME Vizgard has grown from five employees to twenty since engaging with UK Defence Innovation, its FortifAI visual AI system now processing more than 100 camera streams simultaneously to support police drone operations, coastal security and wider defence missions. Vizgard, founded by former Royal Navy submariner Alex Kehoe, has spent five years developing FortifAI, a real-time visual AI platform that plugs into existing defence and security camera infrastructure across land, air and sea. With funding from UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) and technical input from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the company has taken the platform from handling…
