Sensory 🇺🇸

📍 Santa Clara, California, USA

🏢 Founded 1994

🌍 Edge-Based Voice & Face Biometrics

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Company Overview

Sensory Inc. holds a highly unique and fiercely protective philosophy regarding biometrics: your face and your voice should never leave your device. Based in Silicon Valley, Sensory specializes entirely in ‘Edge AI’—meaning their facial recognition and voice authentication algorithms are engineered to run completely locally on the processor of a smartphone, a smart speaker, or a secure access kiosk without ever connecting to the cloud.

This approach solves massive privacy concerns in the event and consumer tech industry. By utilizing their TrulySecure platform, event apps can securely authenticate a user’s face without transmitting sensitive biometric data across a potentially hacked public WiFi network or storing massive, vulnerable databases of faces in the cloud.

Sensory is also a pioneer in combining modalities. Their technology often demands that a user look at the camera *and* speak a randomized passphrase simultaneously, fusing facial liveness detection with voice biometrics to create a system that is virtually impossible to spoof with deepfakes.

Core Technologies

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100% Edge Processing

Sensory’s algorithms are meticulously compressed to run entirely on low-power mobile processors. The biometric matching occurs locally on the device, meaning the system works perfectly even in a concrete basement with zero internet connection.

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Multi-Modal Authentication

Fusing computer vision with natural language processing. The system can be configured to require both a facial match and a voiceprint match (saying a specific phrase) simultaneously, exponentially increasing security.

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Zero Cloud Storage

Because the biometric template is created, encrypted, and stored entirely within the secure enclave of the local hardware device, there is no massive cloud server full of faces for hackers to breach, completely side-stepping GDPR data storage headaches.

Featured Solutions

TrulySecure

An advanced software SDK for app developers. It provides FIDO-certified, on-device facial and voice recognition, allowing event apps to replace passwords with highly secure, local biometric logins.

TrulyHandsfree

The industry standard for voice wake-word technology. This highly efficient edge algorithm constantly listens for a specific phrase (like ‘Hey Event App’) while drawing virtually zero battery power from the device.

TrulyNatural

An embedded large vocabulary speech recognition engine. It allows digital event kiosks to understand complex spoken questions (‘Where is the keynote stage?’) completely offline, without needing Google or AWS cloud servers.

Ideal Industry Deployments

📱 Secure Event Mobile Apps

🎙️ Offline Voice-Controlled Kiosks

🏦 Mobile Banking Authentication

🔒 High-Privacy Access Control

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ‘Edge AI’ and why is it important?

Edge AI means the artificial intelligence calculations happen locally on the ‘edge’ of the network (on the actual iPad, kiosk, or smartphone) rather than sending data to a distant cloud server. This guarantees zero latency, works without an internet connection, and provides absolute privacy.

Can someone hack the system with a deepfake video?

It is incredibly difficult. Sensory’s TrulySecure employs advanced liveness detection, and by combining facial recognition with voice biometrics, a hacker would need to perfectly spoof both a 3D physical face and the user’s exact vocal tract acoustics simultaneously.

Does Sensory manufacture the actual cameras?

No. Sensory is an embedded software company. They provide the highly optimized code (SDKs) that hardware manufacturers and app developers build into their own mobile phones, microwaves, cars, and event registration kiosks.