AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week

Finding security cameras that have stopped working

A security camera cannot protect a site if it is offline or its view is blocked. AITX, a company that develops AI security systems, announced a product on September 10 designed to find those problems.

Called SARA Assess, it connects to the software an organization already uses to manage its cameras. When it finds a fault, it passes the information to Circadian Risk, a platform that helps security teams assess risks across their sites. The system can flag an impaired camera and initiate a task or work order.

That connects detection to a useful next step: getting the problem fixed. Customers can use it without buying AITX's own security hardware.

AITX says the product is available for trials and full deployment. The announcement does not yet show how widely it has been adopted or whether it reduces security failures.

Letting farmers ask questions about their own farm data

John Deere, the farm-equipment maker, introduced an AI assistant called JD on September 1. It sits inside Operations Center, Deere's platform for managing information about fields, machines, and farm operations.

JD lets farmers ask questions about their own operational data. The idea is to help them get answers from records they already hold, using ordinary language instead of having to work through the data themselves.

For a farmer, the potential benefit is easier access to information when deciding how to run the farm. The assistant is initially available to selected agricultural customers in the United States, with a wider rollout planned for later in 2026. Deere has not yet established in this announcement that using it improves harvests or profits.

Making satellite images easier to search

Planet is a company that operates satellites and sells images and data about changes on Earth. Its customers include businesses and public agencies working in areas such as agriculture, forestry, and land management.