Jemez Technology, the technology firm that spun out of the Fort Collins incubator Innosphere, has its eagle eyes on Houston as the city prepares for the big Super Bowl LI game on Sunday.
The Los Alamos, N.M., company was tapped by the city of Houston and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for its video-analytics technology, which is used by camera partner Axis Communications. Its Eagle-i Edge software works with Axis thermal cameras to detect body heat so surveillance cameras at night can pick up what guards and regular security cameras can’t see. The camera system is set up to monitor the edges of Discovery Green Park, where the event is taking place.
“The key for what we’re really doing is when everybody is gone and they don’t want people hanging around, we’re monitoring for unwanted activity. Potential bad-guy behavior,” said Bud Michael, Jemez’s vice president of corporate strategy. “We augment the 24/7 boots on the ground security because we can detect what they can’t see.”
The company added Brian Thomas as its CEO and sole investor last spring. But due to health reasons, Thomas stepped down and remains on the board. Craig Jeffries returned as CEO in early summer. The company, which maintains a five-person sales and operations office in Fort Collins, has the bulk of its 20 employees in Los Alamos. Company founders originally worked on missile defense systems under President Ronald Reagan.
