# Oosto

> Oosto, formerly AnyVision, develops computer vision software for watchlist alerts, biometric access control and behavior detection on existing camera networks. Its enterprise products combine edge processing with cloud or on-premises management. Metropolis acquired the company in January 2025.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Eylon Etshtein (Co-founder and founding CEO), Neil Robertson (Co-founder and founding CTO), Shlomo Ben-Artzi (Co-founder)
- **Products:** OnWatch, OnAccess, OnPatrol, Vision AI Appliance, Multi-Class SDK
- **Notable:** Metropolis acquisition completed in January 2025., Reported deployments in 42 countries and retention above 95% in its January 2025 announcement., River Spirit customer reported three to five positive detections daily in a 2022 case study.

## Products & services

- **OnWatch** — Real-time matching against customer-managed watchlists, with alerts and person tracking. Renamed from A Better Tomorrow in 2021.
- **OnAccess** — Touchless facial-biometric access control with liveness detection. Renamed from Abraxas in 2021.
- **OnPatrol** — Mobile watchlist alerting, included in the 2021 product renaming and 2024 suite.
- **Vision AI Appliance** — Near-edge video-processing appliance introduced on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX hardware.
- **Multi-Class SDK** — Embeddable recognition capabilities spanning face, body, liveness, pose and action.
- **Oosto Protect** — Edge-to-cloud analytics combining identity and behavior rules with remote alerts and multi-site management.
- **Inquiry / OnSearch** — Forensic analysis of recorded video from multiple sources; documented in the River Spirit case study.

## Achievements

- Metropolis acquisition completed in January 2025.
- Reported deployments in 42 countries and retention above 95% in its January 2025 announcement.
- River Spirit customer reported three to five positive detections daily in a 2022 case study.
- 2024 Protect launch announced commitments for 3,000 cameras across 200 locations; commitments are not confirmed active installations.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Protect’s May 2026 release notes, last updated June 30, describe time-based rule schedules, bulk stream controls and live preview during alert-clip loading.
- **2025-01** — Oosto announced its acquisition by Metropolis on January 22; the support portal now identifies Protect as a Metropolis Technologies product.
- **2024-04** — Oosto launched Protect at ISC West, extending its edge-to-cloud behavior and identity alerting offering.

## Links

- Website: https://oosto.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oosto
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/oostoai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@oosto6849
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OostoAI/

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Last updated: 2026-10-03