With Canesta's electronic perception technology, security systems gain entirely new functionality to improve convenience and performance. For instance, today's baby monitors simply transmit the child's actions either in audio or video but require constant monitoring to determine if the child is in trouble. With electronic perception technology, a baby monitor camera could recognize the child's actions so that if the child leaves a crib, for instance, an alert is sounded.

Since electronic perception technology collects a rich set of 3-dimensional information about a field of view, security systems can now gather and process a larger and more robust set of data about a given situation. For example, face recognition systems that function based on the contour of an individual's facial features, rather than a simple two-dimensional image, become more accurate and cost-effective. Or, instead of simple motion-detectors, home-security systems can use low-cost 3D sensor-based cameras to give monitoring companies visibility when an alarm is activated.