XSponse creates AI security ecosystem “made by integrators for integrators’

MIAMI—XSponse has launched an AI-powered ecosystem that CEO Lee Mandel says is designed to “make the integrator’s life easier” amid the complex challenges of modern enterprise security. 

Mandel, an integrator himself for 20 years, noted that the creation of XSponse came about after seeing firsthand the challenges that integrators faced in “really putting a comprehensive ecosystem in place,” especially in the aftermath of the tragic Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings, when it became “critically necessary” to speed up the response time.  

“There's so many disparate systems that if one of the vendors updated their API or changed the configuration, something wouldn't work,” said Mandel, who launched the company with CTO John Gehlsen in late January. “I said we have to have a better solution. The only way to have that better solution is to really own the technology end to end, point to point.” 

The other challenge Mandel saw was installing and cabling, as well as just deploying a mass quantity of devices, such as cameras.  

“We used to get an installation for 500 cameras,” he said. “I got one guy who programs the IP, the next guy programs the port, the next guy programs the password, from camera to camera to camera. It was a massive amount of work.”  

XSponse, Mandel says, is a product manufactured for deployment already configured with features that include audio-visual notifications, classroom video monitoring, in-duct vape detection and wearable badges.

Integrators can go into their portal, set up all the groups and all the permissions – everything they need – so when the device arrives on site, they literally just plug it in, it gets an IP address and it's online.  

“Now, we own everything start to finish,” he said. “We're not just tying into components; we are the main ecosystem.” 

XSponse’s AI platform can prioritize and analyze potential threats using automated response technology (ART) to react to real-time security events swiftly and effectively, based on customer needs.

“We're basically taking a series of inputs and sensor data - which is truly what AI is all about - from all these devices, whether it's temperature, whether it’s humidity, whether it's vapor particle counts, whether it's how many people move in a hallway, and we're logging that on a per-customer basis into their own dashboard, their own database,” Mandel explained. “Then we're creating events automatically through triggers and actions based off the information that we're receiving in. We're bringing in all this data and pushing it out automatically and creating automated response and what we call events based off inputs.”

Mandel added that users can input their own events and trigger an action, “but the system is smart enough to analyze those triggers, events and actions, and push back out.”

Key verticals that Mandel is targeting for XSponse include K-12, higher education, health care and even hotel chains, keeping the security integrator top of mind.  

“We’re targeting any integrator from an AI standpoint who's used to deploying this type of technology,” he stated. “There's room for everyone in this ecosystem, which is great because it's all about making their lives easier and self-deploying themselves.”