Walk into any IC Realtime install and you'll notice what's missing: no required monthly subscriptions, no cloud-only architecture forcing your footage onto someone else's server, no consumer-grade cameras pretending to be commercial. That's the line founder Matt Sailor and his partners drew in 2006, and twenty years later, it still defines the company.
Headquartered in Pompano Beach, Florida, IC Realtime describes itself as "a global innovator of video surveillance technology for the residential, commercial, government and military channels." The company has pioneered the Cloud Video Recorder™, 360°×360° video surveillance camera technology, and is a strong supporter of the UL2802 performance testing standard for camera image quality. From 2012 to 2017, IC Realtime ranked as the #1 IP camera/surveillance brand in the CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis.
The three founders
IC Realtime's 20-year anniversary page profiles the three people who built it:
- Matt Sailor — Founder & CEO. "What I'm most proud of over these 20 years is the culture we built. A culture that values integrity, quality, and continuous improvement. That foundation is what will propel IC Realtime into the next era of security technology."
- Bob Odierna — Founder & COO. "Reaching 20 years in this industry isn't about longevity—it's about consistency. We've succeeded because our dealers pushed us, challenged us, and partnered with us."
- Andrew Nassar — CTO. "Technology has changed dramatically over the past two decades, but our approach has stayed constant: understand the installer's workflow, anticipate their needs, and engineer products that simplify their world, not complicate it."
That "installer first" philosophy is the through-line that connects every product the company has shipped since 2006.
The AI surveillance platform integrators can actually sell
Where consumer cameras stop at motion detection, IC Realtime ships a full suite of on-camera AI features that hold up in commercial deployments. The company's AI features overview lays out six core capabilities:
- Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) — search captured plates by make, model, or color. ("Black Toyota seen 4 times in 2 days.")
- Intelligent Motion Detection — distinguish people, vehicles, and pets to cut false alarms.
- Facial Recognition — flag familiar vs. unknown visitors in real time; school districts upload local offender registries for instant alerts.
- Perimeter Detection & Alerts — AI-powered virtual boundaries around loading docks, driveways, or property lines.
- Smart Search — type "male, blue shirt, blue jeans" and the system pinpoints every matching frame. Investigation time drops from hours to minutes.
- Fish-Eye De-Warping — a single ceiling camera delivers multiple flat viewing angles with no blind spots.
Cameras, recorders, and the IC View+ app
The product portfolio spans cameras, recorders, and accessories, organized into purpose-built series:
- IC Home — Wi-Fi cameras with local SD storage. No required cloud, no subscriptions.
- Edge — the professional integrator workhorse line.
- Greenline — value-tier cameras for budget-sensitive jobs.
- TAA — Trade Agreements Act-compliant cameras for government and military projects.
The IC View+ mobile app gives end clients push notifications, a cloud-based account system backed up at no cost, and 128/256-bit encryption—with the company's stated promise: "we do not harvest or sell personal data."
2025–2026: CEDIA wins and a Series A
The last year has been the company's strongest stretch in a decade. Per the 20-year anniversary page, IC Realtime won CEDIA 2025 Best of Show and CEDIA 2025 Best New Product—on top of seven CE Pro awards, four Security Sales & Integration awards, and three HTSA awards over the company's history.
In early 2026 the company closed a $2 million Series A funding round to accelerate product development. CEO Matt Sailor has become a regular industry commentator, recently providing expert insight on doorbell camera privacy, AI surveillance tradeoffs, builder technology trends, and Oscar security preparations across national outlets.
May 2026: ORB 2 and ANPR—privacy and intelligence at the edge
Two recent product launches show where IC Realtime is heading. The ORB 2 5MP Wi‑Fi 6 Indoor Pan/Tilt Camera—announced May 8, 2026—redesigns the compact indoor PTZ with sharper 5MP video, smarter human detection, tighter night vision, two-way audio, and a true privacy mode that physically hides the lens when the camera is off. That last detail matters: it is the kind of design choice an integrator can point to when a client asks the unavoidable “what happens when the camera is not supposed to be watching” question.
On the commercial side, IC Realtime’s new ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera puts license-plate AI on the edge, using a fast autofocus power-zoom lens and ultra-low-light sensor to translate plate captures into structured data inside the camera itself and encode it directly in the video stream. For gated communities, hospitality drop-offs, executive offices, and any commercial site where vehicle access logging matters, that on-device intelligence eliminates the analytics-server tax most competitors still charge.
Native integration with Control4 and Crestron Home
For our work, the integration layer is just as important as the cameras themselves. IC Realtime publishes native Control4 and Crestron Home drivers so cameras, alerts, and live feeds drop directly into the touch panels and TVs we're already deploying. No third-party bridges, no flaky middleware.
How Restrepo Innovations works with IC Realtime
Most of our clients are high-net-worth families and businesses across NJ, NY, and the Hamptons who need professional surveillance—but won't tolerate the privacy compromises that come with consumer-grade Ring/Nest stacks. IC Realtime is the brand we reach for when a project demands real engineering: estates, hedge fund offices, hospitality venues, and government-adjacent commercial work where TAA compliance matters.
Michael Restrepo on the partnership: "IC Realtime gives us professional cameras with on-device AI, no forced subscription, and clean native integration into the Crestron and Control4 systems we install every day. The Matt Sailor team has built this brand the right way—around integrators, not around consumer hype. They're our default surveillance partner."
If you're planning a residential, commercial, hospitality, or government surveillance install, contact Restrepo Innovations—and learn more about our IC Realtime partnership on our partner page.