What Smartvision does

Smartvision (智慧视通), legally Hangzhou Yunqi Smart Vision Technology Co., Ltd., is a Hangzhou-based privately held artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 that builds visual AI security products centered on its proprietary body/physiognomy recognition (形体/形态识别) technology. Its core algorithms extract multi-dimensional body features (body shape, shoulder width, height, posture, gait) from video frames to enable cross-camera person tracking, video-to-video search, and abnormal-behavior detection in non-cooperative scenarios where traditional face recognition fails (masked, occluded, distant, or nighttime subjects). The technology stack combines multimodal large models with proprietary algorithms, and the company has integrated DeepSeek's foundation models into its R&D workflow (February 2025), while maintaining full domestication of hardware (Haiguang x86, domestic OS, domestic GPU) to align with Chinese 信创 procurement requirements.

Name

Smartvision

Legal name

杭州云栖智慧视通科技有限公司

Website

https://smartvision.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Smartvision (智慧视通) is a Hangzhou-based visual AI company specializing in proprietary body/physiognomy recognition technology for non-cooperative surveillance, primarily serving Chinese public security agencies, with additional deployments in smart energy and smart healthcare.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Video Analytics Software

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/Analytics Video Surveillance (Detection, LPR, People Counting) (HSAHACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Real-Time Vision at the Edge (on-device CV/video) (HDAAAJAE), Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ)

Keywords

• AI video analytics
• Body recognition technology
• Computer vision security
• Intelligent video surveillance
• Public safety AI

Headquarters

HQ city

Hangzhou

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. AI Video Analysis Software Licenses and Systems: Smartvision generates revenue primarily from licensing its AI video analysis software platforms (追形视频侦查分析系统, 蜂鸟实时分析系统, 形体智联建库系统) and integrated hardware-software systems to government and enterprise customers. Revenue is project-based, with one-time license fees for perpetual deployments and potentially annual maintenance/upkeep fees. Products are sold as integrated units combining proprietary software with domestic hardware.
2. Domestic-Produced Hardware Equipment Sales: Sale of domestically-produced (全国产化) AI hardware equipment including the 锋刃 AI portable analysis device, Ming Mou AI edge products (明眸AI边端产品), and integrated computing appliances. Hardware is sold as part of bundled solutions or as standalone units.
3. Integrated Security Solutions and Platform Services: Smartvision provides comprehensive smart city / public safety platform solutions integrating its body-recognition technology with broader software systems for urban governance, emergency response, and security monitoring. These are typically large-scale government contracts covering software, hardware, integration, and ongoing support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Smartvision develops and sells AI-powered visual body/physiognomy recognition software platforms and integrated hardware-software systems for video analysis. Its core products include the 追形AI (Zhuit AI) video investigation analysis system, 蜂鸟 (Bee Humming) real-time analysis system, 慧视全域 (Huishi Full-Domain) tracking platform, and 锋刃AI (Fengniao) domestically-produced portable analysis equipment. The technology enables cross-camera tracking, video-to-video search, and real-time behavior detection for public security, airport security, smart energy, smart healthcare, and smart city governance customers.

Product overview

Smartvision provides a comprehensive visual AI security product portfolio centered on its proprietary body/body shape recognition technology (形体识别技术). The core offering combines the 追形AI video investigation analysis system with the 锋刃AI fully domestic portable equipment, supplemented by the 明眸AI edge computing products and the 视通云平台 cloud infrastructure. Key software platforms include the 蜂鸟实时布控系统 for real-time analysis and alerting, the 慧视全域 full-domain temporal-spatial management platform, and the 慧视模型一体机 AI model appliance. The 彩翼AI aerial sentry system extends coverage to low-altitude drone-based surveillance. Together, these products form an integrated 'hardware + software + cloud' architecture enabling cross-camera tracking, real-time monitoring, and intelligent analysis across public safety, smart energy, smart healthcare, and urban governance verticals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 锋刃AI: 全国产化高性能便携式视频智能分析装备，支持120路实时视频流解析和120倍速离线视频解析。
• 明眸AI
• 视通云平台
• 彩翼AI
• 追形AI
• 慧视全域

Quantifiable outcome

• 120+ real-time video streams can be simultaneously analyzed by a single Feng Ren device, with offline video parsing up to 120x+ speed. 45 minutes to parse 15+ hours of video, generating 24,000+ video abstracts.
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability19 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• 中能之光/陕西医学农业算力产业集群 (Zhongneng Zhiguang / Shaanxi Medical-Agricultural Computing Industry Cluster)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 October 2024Smartvision participated in the signing ceremony for the Shaanxi Medical-Agricultural Computing Industry Cluster project on October 17, 2024, contributing to its first-phase construction. The project involves building a 10,000P green computing base. Smartvision's role involves building the 'Shaanxi Open Source Information Security Technology Center' as part of Phase 1 (2,000P, 9 billion RMB investment).
• 广东云栖智慧视通科技有限公司 (Guangdong Cloud Intelligence Smart Vision Technology Co., Ltd.)coreOthers · 13 June 2024A wholly-owned subsidiary officially opened February 18, 2024 to expand into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. This subsidiary represents Smartvision's strategic market expansion into southern China, leveraging the region's economic dynamism and technology ecosystem.
• 中电科新型智慧城市研究院有限公司 (CETC Smart City Research Institute)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 April 2024Strategic cooperation signed April 18, 2024 at Smartvision's headquarters. The partnership aims to leverage both parties' professional resources and advantages in smart city construction. CETC Smart City Research Institute contributes expertise in smart city top-level design, city operations center construction, public safety, and data governance. Smartvision contributes its AI visual body-recognition technology and product capabilities. The goal is joint development of new applications, models, technologies, and research topics for new smart city construction.
• 算能科技 (Sophon / Sophgo)coreTechnology or Integration · 9 November 2023Joint product launch at the 19th CPSE安博会. The partnership combines Smartvision's body-tracking and video investigation analysis capabilities with Sophon's computing power and big data processing expertise to deliver an integrated body-recognition all-in-one machine. Both companies co-developed and co-marketed the product for the security market.
• 杭州电子科技大学 (Hangzhou Dianzi University)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 October 2021Cooperation agreement signed October 22, 2021 for joint establishment of an employment internship base. Smartvision provides internship and career opportunities for outstanding university students, particularly those in computer science and AI-related programs. The university contributes talent and academic resources. Both parties aim to cultivate high-quality innovative talent through practical industry experience.
• 中国核学会应用技术研究院/杭州原子应用技术研究院 (China Nuclear学会 Applied Technology Research Institute)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 July 2021Strategic cooperation signed July 13, 2021 at Cloud Town. The partnership focuses on building comprehensive safety protection systems for nuclear industry scenarios using body-recognition technology. Smartvision will leverage its technology to analyze safety production challenges and create an all-around security system for nuclear industrial operations, contributing to intelligent and digital nuclear industry transformation.
• 浙江广安科贸有限公司 (Zhejiang Guangan Science & Technology Trading Co., Ltd.)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 March 2021Strategic cooperation agreement signed March 26, 2021. Cooperation covers public safety, smart security, future cities, and digital construction. Guangan contributes its dual government and state-owned enterprise background and expertise in smart security, IoT, and digital city domains. Smartvision contributes its body-recognition technology and video intelligence application capabilities. Both parties aim to jointly advance digital reform and build digital安防 operations platforms.
• 中国刑事警察学院 (China Criminal Police University)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 January 2021Cooperation agreement signed January 17, 2021 with the university's Trace Evidence Identification Technology Key Laboratory (部级重点实验室). The two parties established a Joint Innovation Laboratory for Body/Gait Recognition. Smartvision provides technical and product development support while the university provides business guidance and research expertise. The goal is to develop practical new applications and methods for body-recognition technology in public security.
• 深圳大学 (Shenzhen University)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 July 2020Industry-academia-research cooperation established July 3, 2020 with Shenzhen University's School of Electronics and Information Engineering. Focus areas include image and video forensics, authenticity verification of multimedia evidence, and AI-generated content detection. Cooperation leverages the university's Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Smartvision's body-recognition algorithms.
• 杭州城市大脑有限公司 (Hangzhou City Brain Co., Ltd.)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2020Strategic cooperation signed June 22, 2020. Both parties collaborate on body-recognition technology to enhance urban management safety information capabilities. Hangzhou City Brain is the operating entity for Hangzhou's urban digital governance platform. The partnership aims to integrate Smartvision's body-recognition capabilities with City Brain's digital urban management infrastructure.
• 防务云科技 (Defense Cloud Technology)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2020Strategic cooperation signed April 23, 2020. Defense Cloud is China's first online military-civilian integration trade services platform. The partnership aims to build a bridge between Smartvision's AI visual security products and the military-civilian integration industry chain, providing new products, methods, and mechanisms for the defense and dual-use technology market.
• 浙江省公安厅刑事侦查总队/浙江省公安物证鉴定中心 (Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department Criminal Investigation Corps)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 September 2019Police-enterprise cooperation laboratory signed September 20, 2019. The cooperation focuses on video investigation and body-recognition technology research for criminal investigation applications. Smartvision's body-recognition 'black technology' aims to become a primary case-solving force.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• SenseTime: Leading Chinese AI platform company whose smart city and public security business sells video analytics into the same police and government customers as Smartvision, using overlapping computer vision capabilities.
• CloudWalk Technology: AI vendor with strong face and body recognition IP serving public security and public-facing biometric deployments across China, often bundled with hardware partners.
• Watrix (银河水滴): Specialist gait-recognition pure-play. Competes in the same non-cooperative biometric niche as Smartvision, often evaluated as an alternative by police customers.
• Megvii Technology: Operator of the Face++ platform, with deep competency in pedestrian/body recognition and large-scale city-level public security deployments. Closest direct functional overlap with Smartvision's body-recognition focus.
• Intellifusion (云天励飞): AI visual computing company with an in-house AI SoC and public safety face/body analytics deployed across Chinese cities, serving as a direct competitor on integrated vision-AI edge hardware + software.

Emerging players

• ArcSoft (虹软科技): Computer vision and imaging AI vendor whose algorithms power many camera and mobile device experiences. Adjacent competitor in vision algorithms with partial overlap in surveillance and edge AI deployments.

Broad incumbents

• Uniview (宇视科技): Video surveillance products and AI-enabled video analytics sold into Chinese public security and enterprise markets. Overlaps Smartvision at the buyer level even though product mix is broader.
• Dahua Technology: Second-largest Chinese surveillance vendor selling AI-powered cameras, recorders, and analytics platforms. Competes head-to-head with Smartvision in public safety and smart city procurements but offers a much broader product portfolio.
• Hikvision: World's largest video surveillance equipment vendor with extensive AI analytics stack. A direct competitor on integrated CCTV + AI video analytics for public security in China, but at vastly greater scale, breadth, and pricing power than Smartvision.

Others

• iFlytek (科大讯飞): Larger AI platform with a broad technology stack (speech, vision, healthcare, education). Comparable as a domestic Chinese AI heavyweight selling into the same public-sector ecosystem but not specialized in surveillance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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