Farooq Khan

Farooq Khan

Farooq Khan is the co-founder and CTO of VIDIZMO, where he leads the engineering, product, and AI strategy behind its platform for making sense of unstructured media. He builds applied and generative AI that turns organizations' video, audio, images, and documents into searchable, governed, and usable intelligence at enterprise scale. Over the past 20 years, he has built systems that capture, scale, and now understand media, from voice logging platforms to large scale commerce to VIDIZMO's AI platform. Today that platform is trusted by global enterprises and government agencies alike.

Posts by Farooq Khan
Deploying a Low-Latency Surveillance Pipeline: An Architecture Guide
Analyst reviewing AI-powered video surveillance footage of a retail store with object and person detection events listed on screen.

Deploying a Low-Latency Surveillance Pipeline: An Architecture Guide

"Real-time" is one of those phrases that gets used loosely, and in a video analytics pipeline it hid …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Choosing a GPU for Real-Time Video Analytics
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Choosing a GPU for Real-Time Video Analytics

Capacity planning tells you how many GPUs a deployment needs. This is the other half of the question …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
GPU Capacity Planning for Real-Time AI Video Analytics
A dual-fan GPU graphics card lit by pink and blue neon lighting, with wisps of smoke drifting around it

GPU Capacity Planning for Real-Time AI Video Analytics

Ask a vendor how many cameras their AI runs on one GPU and you will usually get a single confident n …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
On-prem vs Cloud for Real-Time AI Video Analytics
Cloud-based AI video analytics dashboard with retail security camera feed and server racks.

On-prem vs Cloud for Real-Time AI Video Analytics

For most software written this decade, the cloud is the default and running your own hardware needs …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Camera Edge Processing vs Server-Based Processing: The Real Trade-offs
Camera edge processing vs server-based processing: the real trade-offs

Camera Edge Processing vs Server-Based Processing: The Real Trade-offs

There are two honest places to run AI on a video feed, and the choice between them shapes almost eve …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Camera-Agnostic AI Video Analytics: Add AI to the Cameras You Already Own
Camera-agnostic AI video analytics: a white bullet security camera monitoring a city street with blurred traffic in the background.

Camera-Agnostic AI Video Analytics: Add AI to the Cameras You Already Own

The most consequential decision in a central video analytics system is one that rarely makes it into …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Network and Bandwidth Design for Large Camera Fleets
A surveillance camera on a pole

Network and Bandwidth Design for Large Camera Fleets

The GPU gets all the attention in a real-time video analytics deployment, and the network quietly ru …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Pulling Live Streams From Your VMS into AI: Integration Patterns That Work
Control room operator monitoring AI-powered video surveillance and multiple live security camera streams on large displays.

Pulling Live Streams From Your VMS into AI: Integration Patterns That Work

Adding AI to an existing camera estate comes down to one unglamorous problem: getting a copy of the …

Farooq Khan July 14, 2026
Scaling Live Surveillance to Thousands of Cameras: What Actually Breaks
Security operator monitoring multiple surveillance camera feeds on control room screens.

Scaling Live Surveillance to Thousands of Cameras: What Actually Breaks

Scaling a real-time video analytics deployment is not one smooth curve where everything simply gets …

Farooq Khan July 14, 2026
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