Intellio

About us

Twenty years of CCTV — built in Europe, deployed worldwide

Intellio has been developing video surveillance technology in Europe since 2005. We're the CCTV specialist unit of the Adaptive Recognition group, which enables us to have local partner support in almost every country in the world.

Company history

Two decades, one continuous story

2005

  • Established by IT and security professionals to meet the demand for a European-developed, value-focused Video Management System — still our mission today.

2007

  • Intellio Video System 1.0 launched, with cutting-edge features including a customisable 3D map and face browser.
  • First camera line — the ILG — launched with on-board object tracker.

2008

  • Primus Capital Partners (United States) invests in the growing company.
  • IVS-1 enhanced with failsafe operation capability and load balancing.

2009

  • First version of the Intellio Mobile Client created — meeting the emerging need for video streaming on a mobile device.
  • 3D map function and face browser added to IVS-1.

2010

  • First detectors added to IVS, with basic smart-search functions made available.
  • Introduction of Intellio's second camera line — the Orio.

2011

  • OTP Bank — one of the largest banks in Central Europe — invests in Intellio through its venture-capital firm PortfoLion.
  • IVS-2, our second-generation VMS, launched — with ONVIF capability resulting in a camera-independent system.

2012

  • IVS-2 upgraded with intelligent object search, smart search, live event slideshow and enhanced digital-zoom capabilities.

2013

  • Third Intellio cameras integrated with IVS-2 — the Visus Series, offering higher resolution of up to 12 MP.
  • Hungarian highway video system supplied by Intellio wins innovation award.

2014

  • IVS-3 released with camera audio-stream handling and featuring the panorama picture mode for sport-stadium service.
  • Hospital CCTV system in Israel — our first major international project, with up to 300 cameras.

2015

  • Adaptive Recognition Group acquires Intellio.

2016

  • IVS-4 launched, featuring Intelligent Live View, Bookmarks and enhanced camera-navigation capabilities.

2017

  • Railway CCTV system for GYSEV, with automatic recording management between the trains and the data centre on the ground.

2018

  • VMS upgraded with the performance / status monitor.
  • Fourth generation of Intellio cameras launched — the Initio.
  • New city-surveillance system in Miskolc, managing 1,500 CCTV cameras.

2019

  • IVS-5 released, bringing a treasure trove of new features including GPU Decoding and ONVIF Profile T.
  • National solar-park security project — up to 150 locations and 3,500 cameras connected and managed in one Intellio video system.

2020

  • Upgraded Initio cameras launched with smart AI features.

2022

  • Areus — Hungary's leading Dell distributor and integrator — invests in Intellio.
  • Introduction of industry-leading encryption protocols between the servers and the workstations.

2024

  • Headquarters moved to a new location to accommodate the expanding team.
  • IVS-5 upgraded with native integration of burglary alarm system.

2025

  • Relaunched our highly successful self-developed line of server and storage solutions.
  • New CCTV solution for Debrecen University, managing 2,500 CCTV cameras.

2026

  • Introduced a new line of cameras — the Hungarian-manufactured NEO series — with the launch of IVS-6 expected later in the year.
Ownership

Part of the Adaptive Recognition group

Adaptive Recognition is a global technology group with deep expertise in image processing, ANPR and AI. Intellio is the group's CCTV specialist unit — which is how we can support clients with local partners almost anywhere in the world.

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Investment

Co-investment by Areus Group

The investment into Intellio by one of the largest European Dell distributors and solution providers in 2022 brought the Intellio–Dell collaboration closer. Areus is a leading technology group headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, with annual revenues in excess of EUR 55m.

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Careers

Join our team

We are constantly looking for talented and ambitious professionals to join our team — if you would like to work for a specialist boutique firm with the right international pedigree and unlimited upside potential please reach out below.

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Working for us

A team that's been here for twenty years

Of the three founders, two still work for Intellio after 20 years — the third retired in 2025. That's the strongest testament to our culture.

When you join Intellio you join a team of dedicated professionals with a passion for what we do. We don't take shortcuts. Customer experience is everything, and we take pride in our work.

Personal development is a pillar of how we operate — we approach every employee with that in mind, whether it's setting goals for technical learning or supporting activities outside work. Intellio always takes a broader view of personal growth.

Responsibility is handed out early. Everything we do matters, and we have no room for indecision. We hire people who want to be at the forefront of our industry and aren't afraid to push themselves to get there.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and supportive — both with each other on a personal level and as a firm. We take a flexible approach to every employee's needs and advance a healthy work-life balance.

Most of all, we're easy-going and we like to have fun. We know how much humour and shared experience brings a team together, so we make as many opportunities for it as we can.

Open positions

Roles we're currently hiring for

All of this results in a work environment where we take pride in what we do — and surround ourselves with like-minded individuals. Recruitment is a key pillar of our culture, and we're proud of our very high employee retention rate.

Budapest · Full-time

B2B Sales Associate

Hunting-focused sales role in Budapest.

Responsibilities

  • Active hunting — identifying new business opportunities and building relationships in the enterprise, SME, municipal and public-administration sectors
  • Consultative selling — presenting high-value security-technology solutions to prospective clients once their needs are understood
  • Partner management — building trust and maintaining relationships with new and existing clients
  • Preparing, following up and closing project proposals; after-sales
  • CRM management

Requirements

  • Excellent relationship-building skills, openness and drive
  • 3–5 years of professional sales experience
  • Demonstrable B2B sales experience, with a track record of long-term client relationships
  • Strong IT skills (CRM, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • English at working level (alongside native Hungarian)
  • Category B driving licence

Advantages

  • Technical-sales experience in security technology or IT
  • An existing relevant network and familiarity with the security-technology market
  • University degree
  • Residence in Budapest or the surrounding agglomeration
  • Additional foreign languages

What we offer

  • Long-term, stable career opportunity
  • Professional growth and advancement
  • Full-time position, base salary + bonus
  • Partial home-office option
  • Modern working environment
  • Equipment provided (laptop, phone)
  • Company events and team-building
  • Varied, independent work
  • Professional training

Location — Budapest, District XII, Alkotás Út 39, next to MOM Park.

Workplace extras — Coffee bar · Bicycle storage.

Budapest · Full-time

Technical Support Specialist

Pre-sales & after-sales engineering for video-surveillance deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Technical preparation of offers and tenders; pre-sales engineering support
  • Designing video-surveillance systems and supporting installation; project management
  • Selecting CCTV cameras, servers and client workstations; product-portfolio management
  • Preparing and installing Windows-based computers, servers and clients
  • Running demonstrations and online / in-person training for installers and end users
  • Testing software components
  • Writing documentation and demonstration materials in Hungarian and English
  • Answering questions from domestic and international clients through our ticketing system, phone and email; after-sales support
  • Providing premium support for key-account clients and handling development requests

Requirements

  • Strong networking / TCP/IP knowledge
  • Experience designing, installing and operating video-surveillance systems
  • Experience writing technical documentation
  • Strong IT skills
  • English at working level (alongside native Hungarian)
  • Minimum 2 years of work experience
  • High professional standards and reliability

Advantages

  • University degree
  • Familiarity with other low-voltage systems (intrusion detection, access control, fire alarm, parking technology and similar)
  • Hardware-installation experience
  • Residence in Budapest or the surrounding agglomeration
  • Category B driving licence

What we offer

  • Long-term, stable career opportunity
  • Professional growth and advancement
  • Full-time position, base salary + bonus
  • 2–3 days per week in-office, remainder remote
  • Modern working environment
  • Equipment provided (laptop, phone)
  • Company events and team-building
  • Varied, independent work
  • Professional training

Location — Budapest, District XII, Alkotás Út 39, next to MOM Park.

Workplace extras — Coffee bar · Bicycle storage.

Interested in one of these roles?

Send your CV

Leadership

Meet the leadership team

The people running Intellio today — several have been with the company since the beginning.

László Fendrik

László Fendrik

CEO of Intellio and Executive VP of Adaptive Recognition

László is a finance professional with extensive experience in emerging markets. He started his career in private equity at Macquarie Capital in London and Hong Kong and worked as a Director in KPMG's CEE Corporate Finance team. He served as CFO and interim CEO of Budapest Transport Corporation (BKK) during the COVID pandemic, and joined Intellio as CEO in 2023. László graduated from Cass Business School, City University of London in 2006.

Adorján Princz

Adorján Princz

Head of Technology

Adorján has been recognised as one of the leading Central European experts in computer vision and video recognition. A founding member of Intellio's technical team, he has been instrumental in its success over the past two decades and is now responsible for all architectural and technology-driven decisions. Adorján has also served as Director of Product Development for Adaptive Recognition since 2015. He holds an IT Engineering degree from Dennis Gabor College of Budapest.

Tamás Benkő

Tamás Benkő

Head of Development

Tamás has been leading the development of IVS since Intellio's foundation in 2005, when he co-founded the company with Adorján, his colleague at the time. Widely recognised as the "father of IVS", he started the coding of the back-end software from zero, officially becoming the lead program developer of Intellio in 2007. Not only does he manage the complete development team, he likes to get active in writing code to this day. Tamás is a graduate of Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem of Budapest with a degree in Mathematical Computer Science.

Áron Blahó

Áron Blahó

Head of Sales

Áron has worked in technical sales within the automotive, real-estate and IT sectors for more than two decades. An Economics and International Business Communication graduate of Zsigmond Király University of Budapest, he joined Adaptive Recognition in 2017 and has focused on CCTV sales ever since. In 2022 he was appointed to lead Intellio's sales team, and took over the marketing function in early 2024.

Zsolt Polónyi

Zsolt Polónyi

Head of Customer Support

Having graduated as a qualified industrial-electronics technician in 1993, Zsolt continued his studies at Óbuda University of Budapest as an Electrical Engineer, specialising in Supervisory Informatics and Electronic Security Systems. After graduation he spent 17 years in the design and project management of security and low-voltage systems — with a primary focus on video-surveillance systems — before joining Intellio in 2013. Zsolt heads the team responsible for client enquiries, technical support and product testing.