Interview: Inventor of Game Changing AI Tech Shoring Up e-Retail Shopping Security

It’s projected that, by 2025, there will be a total of 291.2 million digital buyers in the United States. It is further reported that, also by 2025, more than ten percent of all retail sales in America is expected to be generated via mobile commerce.

With this exponential digital retail growth comes a litany is problems. Of course, there are pitfalls a plenty on the infrastructure and supply chain side, but it is delivery security that has one inventor frothed up. This as Ron Carter, a visionary tech savant who holds the patent for the RING smart video doorbell technology (and that for many other video doorbell companies), has again created and patented revolutionary entry management technology intended to safeguard the burgeoning e-commerce economy.

Timing could not be better or the need more clear. The significance of new developments in the home delivery package protection space cannot be overstated, especially as one considers study findings published in December of 2021 revealing that “around 210 million packages disappeared from porches across America” over the prior 12 month period. As disconcerting, the study also exposed that “package theft happens even when you have security measures in place,” citing that “58% of recent package theft victims reported using a security camera or video doorbell camera.”

It’s clear that “porch-pirating” is escalating to a level that’s become a bona fide challenge for e-commerce sales. A circumstance Carter and his 100% minority-owned company 1AHEAD Technologies is hell-bent on rectifying courtesy of GLO—a first-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) entry management technology recently introduced at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Knowing Carter is responsible for much of the current video surveillance doorbell industry—with some of his previous patents licensed by household-name companies beyond RING like CPI Security, Alarm Force, HeathCo/Zenith, Chamberlain, Live Watch Security... In addition to capturing video, the GLO AI device creates a new category referred to as “entry management” as opposed to security. The system utilizes a sophisticated AI-driven device that may be integrated with smart mailboxes, smart locks, e-commerce logistics, and endless other smart devices.Overall, GLO AI can recognize delivery personnel, record their actions, allow them to leave packages in a smart box or monitored area, open the door and enable access via a smart lock, record messages, provide logistics to the delivery person, read images that act as keys, aggregate data and more.