'Fox & Friends' co-hosts criticize liberal San Francisco Mayor London Breed after she claimed crime statistics were taken completely out of context and that her city is being targeted. Residents and business owners in California's Bay Area are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to combat a surge of burglaries and robberies along with police staffing shortages, with one security company telling Fox News Digital its sales of AI-based surveillance have been through the roof. Deep Sentinel, a Pleasanton, California-based company providing AI-based security nationwide, told Fox News Digital that business tripled during the coronavirus pandemic and that trend has continued ever since as burglaries and robberies continue to plague San Francisco and the Bay Area in general. "I would say that the business segment has just skyrocketed in the past year," Tomasz Borys, Deep Sentinel's vice president of marketing, told Fox News Digital. "The way that works is these cameras come with a sensor, so when there's an object that goes in front of the camera, it will trigger the artificial intelligence really quickly within a millisecond and determine what the object is," Borys explained.

Deep Sentinel is a new disruptive entrant to the smart home security market that installing security contractors will be wise to keep watch on. I first got wind of Deep Sentinel in 2017 after the startup publicized it had closed a $7.4 million Series A venture funding round to fuel development of its smart home video surveillance system. The company touted it was developing security cameras powered by machine learning to evaluate threats on a property in real time. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the residential space seemed to be coming to fruition, but also noteworthy were the investment players. The funding round was led by Shasta Ventures -- well-known for hedging its bets in Nest before it was snapped up by Google -- and included Bezos Expeditions, which manages none other than Jeff Bezos' personal venture capital investments.