Nobody is watching at 2am
Recorded footage is evidence after the event, not a warning. Something happens overnight, somebody notices a broken lock or a missing pallet the next morning, and the hunting through footage begins.
The common fix is a motion alert from the camera or recorder. Motion works on pixels changing, so it fires on a moth on the lens, headlights sweeping a wall, rain, a branch in the wind. People switch those alerts off within a week, because they stop meaning anything.
How it works
The sweep runs on a schedule against the cameras you nominate, using the same local restream the dashboard uses, so the recorder is not asked for a fresh stream every time.
- You set the hours. Opening and closing times for the site, plus which days count as closed. Weekends, shutdown periods and public holidays can all be treated as closed.
- The sweep looks for people. Each frame is analysed for what is in it. A vehicle in the yard at 3am and a person in the yard at 3am are different things, and the rules tell them apart.
- An email goes out with the frame attached. It names the camera and the time. Recipients are whoever you nominate, so one site can email the owner while another emails a duty manager.
- A cooldown stops repeat emails. Once an event has been reported on a camera, further alerts for the same activity are suppressed for a set period. Somebody moving around a dock for twenty minutes produces one alert, not forty.
- Budgets keep the cost predictable. Per-camera and hourly analysis budgets cap how much processing a camera can consume.
Footage stays on your own recorder. Analysis runs on our server rather than a third-party cloud. How it works covers the path from camera to alert, and AI analytics covers the rest of the platform.
What you see and get
An email with a still frame, the camera name and the timestamp. The same detection is written to the event timeline with a short clip around it, so you can see what happened either side of the frame that triggered the alert. If somebody is at a screen, live detection draws boxes on the live view.
Where it fits best
Sites that are genuinely empty for part of the day: warehouses and distribution yards, workshops and trade depots, car yards, retail after close, rural sheds and machinery compounds. It is worth most where the alternative is nothing at all. See warehouses and logistics.
What it does not do
- It is not a monitored alarm service. No guards are dispatched and no call centre picks up. The alert goes to your people, and your people decide what to do.
- It does not guarantee every person is detected. Heavy rain, fog, glare, a dirty lens or a person hidden behind stock can all mean a frame the system reads as empty.
- It checks on a schedule rather than every frame, so somebody who crosses a camera between sweeps can be missed.
- It prevents nothing. It tells people sooner. And it depends on the site connection and on email delivery: if the internet drops, the sweep cannot reach the cameras, though the recorder keeps recording locally.