Next-Gen Surveillance Technology

Monitoring access to a secure property, whether it be a ranch or municipal facility, is challenging. Avoiding the cost of manned patrols and/or guard houses requires surveillance tech - cameras, a secure and hardened network, network storage, etc.. Unfortunately, most implementations of camera systems are nothing more than forensic tools. They can show you who did what after the fact.  

The Mercury Early Warning System (MEWS)
Knowing when something important is happening while it's happening is critical to avoiding a negative outcome. While most modern systems provide alerts for movement in view of the cameras, they generate enough false alarms to be useless in real time. The MEWS is AI-driven, so the cameras are trained to distinguish between vehicles, animals, and people. With vehicles, in particular, our cameras have License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology built into them, so they can not only identify a vehicle, they can distinguish between different vehicles by license plate.  

Get Notified ONLY When It Matters

Here are a few examples of how the MEWS is used by our clients:

• Send alert if the camera sees a vehicle NOT on the Allowed list. Many large ranches have a lot of traffic entering and leaving the property. Each of the known and authorized vehicles is added to the "Allowed" list, so that the system ignores them as they come and go. Any vehicle not on the allowed list, however, triggers an alert. Upon receiving the alert, the property owner/manager can pull up the live feed from the camera from a phone, tablet, or laptop/PC.
  • BONUS: Automatically open gates for license plates on the Allowed list. The MEWS is tied into the access control for the gates, so the camera recognizes the license plate and automatically opens the gate. (Access via keypad or fob is also always available.)  

• Send alert if a vehicle enters a "Zone". Cameras at gates often have a view of the road, so it's important to exclude that from what triggers the camera.

• Send alert if a human crosses a line or enters a zone. Sensitive areas that are frequented by animals can be monitored for human activity and provide alerts anytime someone is there, However, the camera will ignore a deer or a dog. 

Secure and Resilient Even in Remote Areas

Cameras in a MEWS network are hardwired to ensure reliability and security. Where internet access is unavailable, our engineers setup secure Point-to-Point wireless communication between components - even over miles - using Starlink. If power is unavailable, we use solar panels in conjunction with solar generators to keep the network up and running at all times.    

Enabling the Defensive Plan

A MEWS network is designed following a Threat Assessment, With a clear understanding of our clients' concerns and the vulnerabilities that exist, our consultants make recommendations on:

• where cameras should be placed
• how they should be set up
• how much storage is needed
• what should trigger alerts
• who should receive alerts

The Defensive Plan relies heavily on MEWS. In fact, alerts from MEWS trigger specific action plans in the Operational Playbook, depending upon where the camera is located and what has triggered the alert. Every client and situation is different, but the real-time awareness of a potential problem and the ability to bring up the camera and analyze the details on a live feed is a game changer. The response may be to run, call the police, deploy security, or all of the above. The early warning tilts the odds of avoiding a bad situation heavily in your favor.

If you want to know what's happening on your property while you can still do something about it, please reach out.  

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