Festivals and live events bring thousands of people together in environments that can change from one day, or even one hour, to the next. Open perimeters, parking areas, temporary infrastructure, multiple entrances, and large crowds can all make security planning more complex.
That’s why Omnilert is excited to join Action CS at the 2026 IFEA Convention & Expo, October 5–7 at El Conquistador Tucson in Tucson, Arizona. The annual event brings together festival and event professionals, suppliers, and industry partners to explore trends, challenges, and new approaches across the events industry.
If you’re attending IFEA, visit Omnilert with Action CS to learn how organizations can make better use of their existing camera infrastructure to support earlier threat detection, human verification, communication, and coordinated response.
The Security Challenges of Festivals and Events
Unlike environments with controlled entrances and fixed layouts, festivals and events can extend across parking lots, walkways, outdoor gathering areas, temporary structures, and multiple venues. Security personnel need visibility across those spaces while also managing crowds, vendors, employees, performers, traffic, and day-to-day event operations.
Security cameras can provide important coverage, but traditional video surveillance still depends heavily on someone seeing a developing threat at the right time. With dozens or hundreds of camera feeds available, continuously monitoring every area can be difficult.
AI and connected security technologies can help organizations get more value from the infrastructure they already have by making cameras a more active part of the security and response process.
See How Omnilert Moves from Detection to Response
Omnilert AI Gun Detection works with existing security cameras to analyze video for visible firearms. When the system identifies a potential firearm threat, relevant imagery, video, and location information can be routed for human verification so trained personnel remain at the center of the decision-making process.
Once a threat is verified, Omnilert can connect that information to predefined response workflows. Depending on an organization’s existing procedures and integrations, those workflows can include emergency notifications, alerts to security personnel or authorities, access-control actions, alarms, and other security systems.
For festivals and events, this approach can help extend threat awareness into areas where traditional screening may be difficult to deploy, including outdoor spaces, parking areas, approaches, walkways, and other large or open environments.
The goal isn’t to replace security personnel or established procedures. It’s to provide earlier information and additional context that can help people assess a potential threat and put the appropriate response into motion.
Extending Existing Cameras with Action CS
Omnilert will be attending IFEA alongside Action CS, which develops active deterrence and communication technology designed to work with existing commercial security cameras.
Action CS manufactures the Active Deterrence Unit, or ADU, a configurable platform that adds visual and audio response capabilities to camera infrastructure. Depending on the configuration, Action CS technology can support high-intensity lighting, amplified warnings, live intervention, automated messaging, and site-wide communication.
That approach is particularly relevant for large properties and outdoor environments. Action CS also offers technology designed to support cameras and security equipment on existing light poles, helping organizations extend power and connectivity into areas where adding security infrastructure might otherwise require more extensive installation work.
Like Omnilert, Action CS focuses on helping organizations build on the security investments they already have rather than requiring them to replace an entire camera environment.
Connecting Detection, Verification, Communication, and Action
Effective event security involves more than identifying that something may be wrong. Organizations also need to determine what is happening, get information to the appropriate people, and carry out the response procedures they have established. That makes the connection between detection and response increasingly important.
Omnilert brings AI-powered visual firearm detection, human verification, emergency communications, and automated response workflows into that process. Action CS extends existing surveillance infrastructure with additional visual, audio, communication, and active-deterrence capabilities.
At IFEA, attendees can talk with Omnilert and Action CS about how technologies like these can complement existing cameras and broader security strategies across the varied environments festivals and events need to protect.
Meet Omnilert and Action CS at IFEA 2026
The 71st Annual IFEA Convention & Expo takes place October 5–7, 2026, at El Conquistador Tucson in Tucson, Arizona.
If you’re responsible for security, emergency preparedness, venue operations, or event planning, stop by the Action CS booth to meet Omnilert and explore how your existing camera infrastructure can play a more active role in identifying and responding to potential threats.
We’d be happy to learn more about your event environment, current security technology, and response procedures, and discuss how AI gun detection could fit into the systems you already have in place.
If you’ll be at IFEA 2026, schedule a meeting with Omnilert to reserve time with us in Tucson.
