Recognition that respects privacy
Identify the people who matter the moment they arrive, while everyone else stays anonymous. Ottica's facial recognition runs entirely on-premise, so biometric data never leaves your venue.
Security and privacy are usually at odds. They should not be.
Most facial-recognition platforms send sensitive imagery to the cloud, retain data on everyone who walks past a camera, and treat privacy as a setting rather than a foundation. That model creates latency, unnecessary risk and a loss of public trust. Ottica was designed the other way around: identify only the individuals you have a clear reason to identify, ignore everyone else entirely, and process every frame inside your own environment.
Cloud round-trips add risk and delay
Sending biometric imagery offsite introduces latency, a wider attack surface and uncertainty about where sensitive data ultimately resides.
Indiscriminate retention erodes trust
Platforms that store data on every passer-by accumulate risk and damage the confidence of the people you serve.
Generic systems ignore local needs
Software resold from overseas rarely accounts for the privacy expectations of local communities and patrons.
Built in-house, deployed on your terms
Every component of the platform is engineered by our team in Melbourne and runs on hardware you control.
Real-time detection and verification
Near-instant matching against your registered watchlists means alerts reach your team in under a second, not after a frame has finished a trip to a remote server.
100% on-premise processing
All biometric inference happens on local hardware inside your venue. No imagery is streamed to the cloud and no third party ever sees your footage.
Unknown people stay unknown
The system does not tag, profile or retain anyone who is not on a watchlist you have configured. People you have no reason to identify are never enrolled.
Configurable retention and deletion
Set how long any record is kept, then let the platform purge it automatically. Data is isolated per site and disposed of on a schedule you define.
Privacy by design
Consent and data minimisation are built into the architecture from the start, not bolted on, so your deployment stands up to scrutiny from day one.
Continuous improvement, shipped to everyone
Our models improve through ongoing research, and every refinement is delivered to all customers. The platform you buy today keeps getting sharper.
What you can expect
- Faster, more reliable identification of known individuals
- Biometric data that never leaves your premises
- A clear, defensible, privacy-first posture
- No profiling or retention of unregistered people
- Local support from the team that built the system
- A platform that keeps improving without re-procurement
Questions, answered.
Yes. Ottica supplies purpose-built smart cameras and an on-site server, engineered to run recognition together as one system. Our Melbourne team designs the camera layout for your site and installs and tunes it for reliable, low-latency matching.
Inside your own environment. All inference and storage run on local hardware at your site, isolated per location. Nothing is streamed to the cloud, and no third party has access to your footage or templates.
No. The platform only acts on people enrolled in a watchlist you control. Unknown individuals are not tagged, profiled or retained, which keeps both your data footprint and your risk to a minimum.
Because all processing happens locally, detection and verification typically complete in under a second, with alerts delivered to any connected device. Accuracy depends on camera placement and image quality, which we optimise during deployment.
Ottica's facial-recognition platform is developed entirely in-house in Melbourne. The same Australian team handles design, deployment and ongoing support, so you are never routed through an overseas reseller.
See on-premise facial recognition in action
Book a walkthrough with our Melbourne team and we will show you how Ottica identifies the people who matter while keeping everyone else anonymous and your data on-site.