With their combined technologies, the companies will help employees get more done, improve customer experiences, and automate operations in a wide variety of scenarios.

In factories and warehouses, AI-powered computer vision can improve safety by making sure workers are wearing hard-hats and other protective gear. It can track heavy machinery and check for product defects on the assembly line. In restaurant chains, it can monitor finished products to control quality and minimize waste. It can help retailers track high-value inventory to reduce loss and keep products flowing efficiently.

In short, anything the human eye can see, the technology can be trained to see as well. And it can quickly learn to be more accurate than a human expert and to perform at superhuman levels, freeing up experts to focus on higher-value tasks.

The collaboration blends several powerful technologies — namely the Meraki cloud-managed platform and MV smart cameras, along with the Cogniac no-code computer vision platform. Working together, they will allow businesses to rapidly build and roll out ML models that use video and image data to observe key activities without the need of AI experts or new infrastructure. That’s the power of a cloud-managed network at work.

The AI for Computer Vision global market is projected to grow from $7.3 billion in 2020 to $84.4 billion in 2027, according to research analysts. And it’s not just large enterprises that will benefit; the Meraki-Cogniac collaboration also puts computer vision within the reach of small-to-medium-sized businesses so they can grow faster.