Community CCTV monitoring
SentriqMesh turns the cameras at your home into an early warning. It spots people in the zones you choose and puts the alert, with snapshot, clip and live view, in front of your security company's control room within seconds. If you like, a Google speaker inside your home can announce it too, and that keeps working even when the internet is down.
How it works
A small computer at your home watches your cameras around the clock. It only raises an alert for what you asked for: a person in your chosen zones, at the times you chose.
The edge node at your home runs proven AI object detection on your existing IP cameras. It ignores cars, cats and trees blowing in the wind, and only reacts to a person in the zones you picked, for example the pavement outside your wall, from midnight until sunrise.
If you choose, a Google or Nest speaker in your house announces it at once: "Person detected at the front gate", in English, Afrikaans or another language. It needs no internet, so it works even during an outage.
The snapshot reaches your security company's control room within seconds, with a sound and on a map. Your phone gets a notification too. The control room can play the clip or, if you allow it, watch live while the person is still there.
An operator acknowledges it and records what was done: patrol sent, police called, false alarm. If nobody responds within minutes, it is escalated, and you're told. Was it you? Tap "It's me" and the control room stands down.
Who it's for
Most incidents we see happen between 3 and 5 in the morning. SentriqMesh watches the outside of your property while you sleep, and lets the people who can respond know straight away.
Your operators see real people at real gates, not alarm codes. Every alert arrives with a picture, a clip and, where the client allows it, a live picture.
Neighbourhood watches, estates and complexes connect many homes to one control room, so one person loitering on the street is noticed by the whole street.
Built for real conditions
SentriqMesh was designed for areas where the internet isn't always there. Everything that has to happen fast happens at your home.
Detection and the optional announcement on your speaker run on the node at your home, so they keep working through internet outages.
Alerts raised while offline are stored on the node and delivered, in the right order, the moment the connection is back.
Add a backup mobile (LTE) connection, and alerts keep reaching the control room even when your main internet is down.
A camera without picture or a node that stops reporting is flagged to you and the control room within minutes.
Only alerts and a snapshot travel. Recordings stay on the node at your home; a clip is fetched only when someone presses play, and that copy is deleted from the server after 14 days.
Optional AI second look
An AI vision model takes a second look at every snapshot and describes it in one line: how many people, a covered face, something that may be a weapon. A possible weapon makes that card flash red in the control room, so it is seen first.
It only ever adds urgency. It never hides or dismisses an alert, and it runs on hardware you control, so snapshots aren't sent to an outside AI service.
🤖 One person at the gate, face covered, holding a long object in the right hand.
Operators can mark the AI as wrong. The accuracy figures show how much to trust it.
Privacy & evidence
Recordings live on the node at your property. When an alert's clip is played, a copy is kept on the server for 14 days so it plays quickly, then deleted, unless the incident is placed on legal hold as evidence. Live view needs your consent per camera, works only during an alert, is never stored, and every view is logged for you to see.
Download everything held about you, or have it erased. Clear retention periods, two-factor sign-in, and access limited to your own security company.
One button keeps an incident's snapshots, video clips and full history, each sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint, so any later change would show. Ready to hand to the police or your insurer.
Every sign-in, change and look at footage is recorded in a chain that shows if anything was altered or removed.
What's at the home
An installer sets up a small node next to your camera system and pairs it with your account. You then choose your zones, times and security company yourself, from your phone.
Most IP cameras with an RTSP stream work, including the ones you may already have.
A Raspberry Pi 5 with an AI accelerator and an SSD, or a small PC. It detects, records and sends the alerts.
Inside the house, so you hear the moment someone is detected outside.
Fibre, LTE or wireless. It copes with interruptions; a small UPS keeps it going through power cuts.
Questions
Detection, recording and the optional Google speaker announcement all run at your home and need no internet. The control room does need a connection. With a backup mobile connection (LTE), alerts keep reaching it during an outage. Without one, alerts are kept on the node and delivered, with their original time, as soon as the internet is back. The node and cameras need power, so a small UPS is recommended.
Usually not. Most IP cameras with an RTSP video stream can be used. Your installer will check your cameras when setting up the node.
Recordings stay on the node at your home for about two weeks. Each alert sends a snapshot to the system. When someone plays an alert's clip, that clip is copied to the system and kept for 14 days (longer only if the incident is placed on legal hold as evidence). You, the household members you invite, and your security company's control room can see your alerts. Live view works only for cameras you allowed, only during an alert, and you can see who watched.
No. You choose which objects (usually people), which zones and which times raise an alert. A burst of movement becomes one incident with one notification, not dozens.
You still get every alert on your phone. You can choose "none" as your security company; participating control rooms can then see your alerts, and you can choose a company later.
It complements it. An alarm reacts once someone is inside; SentriqMesh alerts you and the control room while they're still outside your wall, so there's time to respond.
That depends on the number of cameras and the service you need. Send us an enquiry and we'll come back to you with a proposal.
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