About us
The team is dedicated to Surveillance Camera View Wellness.
We are commercializing Artificial Intelligence software we developed for Duke University (top 10 university in the USA)(1).
The software always & automatically verifies that your video evidence is available and of the highest quality, so you can rest assured you will have the video you need after an incident.
Organizations typically assign a person to review the video from each camera to manually identify cameras whose view may be unclear due to blur, block, tilt, glare, or low-light. The cameras can stop recording or not retain enough days of recordings. Hard-drives can fail and their clock could be incorrect. Finding these problems quickly in a large camera system is a challenging, time-consuming, and expensive task at best.
Our AI automates this process, saving time and providing peace of mind. We developed this technology at Duke University for their 2,000 cameras and have since grown to support many clients across different verticals.
(1)https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/duke-university-2920
started at Duke University
Duke University
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(1)https://facts.duke.edu

has been deployed at Duke University since 2017 across 2,000+ cameras to protect:(1)

  • 16,000 students and 8,700 campus employees
  • 1,400 acres of property and 180 buildings
  • $8.5 billion endowment

Duke CIO, Tracy Futhey, spearheaded development of AI camera wellness verification​ software to

  • Automate that verification happens
  • Easily audit verification quality
  • Uncover silent failures automatically

Duke Chief of Police, John Dailey, and the Duke University Police Department use this AI automated process.

About thename
We named the company after Argus the watchful giant with 100 eyes from Greek Mythology. Argus, with so many eyes, would sleep only a few of the eyes at a time and was therefore a very effective watchman. So too, our software is always and carefully monitoring each of your cameras for any view problems so you can depend on them always being ready and recording useful footage.
The "i" is to indicate that our Argus uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do its job.
We pronounceas "Argus" and keep the "i" silent.
The Team
Dr. Daniel Reichman
Daniel
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – Electrical Engineering / Artificial Intelligence
Joelle Grunblatt
Joelle
Masters Business Administration
Masters Math Education
Itsik
Itsik
P. Engineer Computer Science
Chief Executive Officer

Daniel is a machine learning engineer with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University. Through his research he gained extensive experience in designing and implementing computer vision solutions to real-world applications and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. He has also been involved in several consulting projects related to document analysis and financial projections.

Chief Marketing Officer

Joelle is the former CFO of Glasol, a diamond office owned by the president of the Antwerp Diamond Exchange (25 employees) for 11 years. The company had a monthly recurring revenue ranging from $1-9 million and clients all over the globe. Joelle owned a financial services company, customizing insurance and investment programs for individuals and businesses. She successfully developed her clientele by networking, hosting seminars, and social media marketing. She is also co-founder of SI Career Coaches which led her to pursue a Master's in mathematics education.

Chief Operating Officer

Itsik Reichman was CEO and Founder of Telelink, a pioneering satellite communications company (25 employees), owning and operating satellite communication systems to provide telephony and internet services in remote locations, especially in Africa. The company had monthly recurring revenue of over $1 million in the last 5 years of operation and managed a force of over 1,500 sales representatives and operators. Itsik also designed, coded, and maintained proprietary billing, accounting, and customer care software for clients, sales representatives, and internal operations.

Advisory Board
Tracy Futhey
Tracy Futhey

As chief information officer (CIO) at Duke, Tracy Futhey presides over the university's information technology endeavors, which extend to a global network in support of Duke Kunshan University in China and various other international programs and sites.

Throughout her career as a technologist, Futhey has provided leadership in the use of commercial technologies within universities. In the 1990s this included pioneering the pervasive deployment of wireless networks and experimentation with early handheld devices at Carnegie Mellon University, where she spent 17 years prior to Duke.

Over her 35 year career she has influenced the higher education technology landscape regionally and nationally, leading the introduction of the nation’s first national research and education optical network and as an active member of regional and national higher education organizations. She is a frequent advisor to research projects, startups and Fortune 100 technology companies, has been Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and has received awards regionally and nationally for her technology vision and leadership.

She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration and a master's degree in industrial administration, both from Carnegie Mellon.

Kurt C. Schmidt
Kurt C. Schmidt

Kurt Schmidt, a Mentor-In-Residence with Duke New Ventures, has extensive experience in all stages of startup operations. From founder to successful exit, his tenure in the entrepreneurial ecosystem includes operational, advisory, and investor roles. He has served as a board member, chairman, and advisor to technology innovators from San Francisco to Sydney to Shanghai.

Kurt is a member of the Executive Committee and the President-Elect of Triangle Angel Partners, an angel fund that invests in technology startups. He serves on several boards, including the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development.

As a TRW Fellow, Kurt earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Southern California and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. At Duke University’s School of Law, he honed his skills in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, and entrepreneurial transactions.

Kurt is an adjunct professor in the Honors Carolina program at The University of North Carolina, as well as a guest lecturer at Kenan-Flagler Business School. Starting Fall 2018, he will teach entrepreneurship at Duke University.

is AI (Artificial Intelligence) software developed for Duke University to automatically verify that security cameras continue to produce their intended video to improve safety and security on premises.
Corporate main offices
Las Vegas, Nevada
‪(702) 483-0870‬
Durham, North Carolina
(919) 249-8701
International offices
UK
garysykes@sourcepartnership.co.uk
+44 788 980 8752
Turkey
gurkane@ai-rgus.com
+90 542 637 7884
UAE
info@be-tech.ae
+971 58 590 6868
' development and service are based in the U.S.A.