Real-Time Safety: How Griffin 365 uses Lektra to Protect Schools with AI.

Griffin 365 is a security AI startup building custom-trained models that turn existing surveillance feeds into active threat detection systems.

Their first deployment focus is K-12 schools.

The Challenge: Detection in Real Time

Griffin 365 developed a custom model that detects brandished weapons in live surveillance footage. Moving from a working model to a deployed system across a school district introduced a different problem: running inference on continuous video streams, in parallel, fast enough to be actionable in an emergency.

To run pilots in two New Jersey districts, they needed:

Low Latency: A delay of even ten seconds between detection and alert is unacceptable in an active threat scenario.

Parallel throughput: Simultaneous inference across multiple camera feeds without performance degradation.

Managed infrastructure: Schools don't have the IT staff to oversee GPU servers, and Griffin 365 didn't want to take on hardware operations as a side business. The pilot needed compute that someone else would run.

The Solution: Lektra EdgeReserve

Griffin 365 reserved dedicated GPU capacity on Lektra's distributed cloud through EdgeReserve, securing a fixed annual contract instead of building or leasing on-prem hardware.

Custom Model Deployment: Griffin 365 migrated their proprietary weapon-detection model onto Lektra's infrastructure.

Parallel video inference: Reserved GPU capacity handles concurrent video streams at the latency Griffin 365 needs for actionable alerts — with no cold starts and no shared environments.

Fully managed by Lektra: Provisioning, monitoring, uptime, and hardware maintenance sit with Lektra. Griffin 365 focuses on the model. Schools focus on students. No one in either organization is babysitting a server rack.

The Impact: A Working System in Live Schools

Griffin 365 is running active pilots in two New Jersey school districts, monitoring camera feeds during school hours.

Automated Alerts: When the system detects a visible weapon, it can notify designated responders within seconds, shortening the gap between threat and response.

Zero operational burden on schools: No servers in closets, no IT tickets, no hardware to maintain. Griffin 365 delivered a fully managed AI safety service, with Lektra running the infrastructure underneath.

Validated deployment: The pilots are informing a wider rollout, with a model that performs in live school environments — not only in test data.