Active Witness

Alumni connection: Heath Driscoll, BComm’16, is VP, Business Development.

Faculty: Haskayne School of Business

Category: Technology

Region: Vancouver

Company information: Active Witness is a Vancouver-based, hosted cloud-based Access Control company. To simplify things, we are a manufacturer of intelligent IoT edge devices and visitor management software. Our mission: to Redefine Access.
Our patent pending, multi-factor authentication utilizes AI powered facial authentication to help secure any facility from unauthorized personnel with mobile access (via QR-codes) and facial biometrics. We have developed a multi-platform smartphone app (Android and IOS) which is used by both administrators and end-users alike. Our hosted cloud-based access control system allows users to be granted facility access with ease and an effective visitor management software. Our mobile app offers a suite of supplementary features, beyond what you typically get with legacy Access Control technology, such as video recording, remote troubleshooting, tailgate tracking, facility access analytics and more.
The days of utilizing key cards, fobs and expensive server-based solutions are over. We believe that the smart cities of the future will rely on mobile-access and facial biometrics for frictionless, yet highly secure cloud-based access to any secure facility. Key cards can be fraudulently replicated and cause an unnecessary amount of plastic waste each year. Server based solutions are costly to implement and maintain and also have limitations in their ability to scale with an organization. You never go anywhere without your phone, and you can’t leave home without your face, making our technology the perfect fit for any organization looking to upgrade their facility access for a reasonable price.

Year established: 2019

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