Most of the time, nobody is looking.
Foot patrols reach key passes only a few times a month, and only between April and October.
Forest, fog, rain and snow hide the ground from drones and aircraft for weeks at a time.
Ordinary camera traps need battery changes that give their position away — and send HQ every animal, gust of wind and own patrol.
What’s needed: a camera that watches all year, stays hidden, works in any weather and needs no visits.
It sleeps until something moves.
Motion wakes it
A low-power motion sensor — plus an optional ground vibration sensor — watches continuously. Everything else stays off.
Takes a few photos
3–4 quick shots with the low-light camera, using invisible infrared at night. The optional thermal camera switches on only when needed.
Decides on the spot
The on-board AI checks twice — person, vehicle or animal? — and looks for a friendly tag before anything is saved or sent.
Only what matters
Only a confirmed alert switches the radio on: a short, encrypted message with a photo and location. Then it goes back to sleep.
It decides on the spot. No cloud, no operator needed.
Argus recognises what it sees, checks it against rules you set, and responds by itself — in under two milliseconds. Operators only hear about what matters.
Same camera. Choose the radio that fits the site.
The core is designed and tested once. Each radio is a plug-in module, and HQ sees the same alerts whichever one is fitted.
Cellular
GSM, 4G and LTE-M on a local SIM. Alert and photo reach HQ in about 30 seconds.
Satellite
Direct to satellite with a hidden antenna, for isolated sites with no network. Alerts reach HQ in 1–3 minutes.
LoRa mesh
Cameras pass alerts to each other over encrypted long-range radio. One relay on a ridge sends them all on to HQ — so a whole valley needs one connection, not ten.
It knows your patrol from theirs.
Our soldiers carry a small coded tag, about the size of a coin. When Argus sees a person, it checks for a valid tag before deciding whether to send an alert.
Recorded with tag number and time. No alert is sent — and HQ gets a record of patrol movement.
Alert sent to HQ with photo, location and time. Operators check it and decide how to respond.
Anywhere a person can’t stay.
The networks and cyber defence behind the sensors.
39 years of building critical networks, and a managed cybersecurity service. The team that secures every Argus link can secure the rest of your organisation too.