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AI Cam

Smart Surveillance

Your AI Watchman. Never Blinks. Never Sleeps.

Your cameras record everything and tell you nothing. Footage only gets reviewed after something has already gone wrong. AI Cam watches it live instead — it judges every scene the way a guard would and messages you the moment something matters, on the cameras you already own.

16
Event Types Classified
24/7
AI Watchman On Duty
Multi
Layer AI Verification
100%
Events Logged & Audited

In short

What you get

Traditional CCTV vs IO Snack AI Cam

Why Surveillance Is Moving From Recording to Knowing

See exactly what changes the day you switch — issue by issue.

Your CCTV Today With IO Snack AI Cam
Hours of footage recorded — but nobody watching in real time
Watched in real time, with real events flagged the moment they happen
It only ever finds what someone thought to set up in advance
AI Watchman watches the whole scene and reports dangers nobody configured
A fall, a fight or a snake in the yard sets off nothing at all
Watched the way a guard would watch — tell it your rules, or let it decide
You discover the break-in next morning, scrubbing through tape
Rich push notification the moment intrusion is detected
Motion alerts fire for every cat, branch, shadow and headlight
Dual-layer AI verification suppresses false positives
No idea a camera went offline until you actually need the clip
Device heartbeat monitoring — instant offline detection
Critical fire and smoke events buried among routine motion
AI threat classification ranks Critical above Routine
Every site has its own DVR box and its own separate login
One cloud dashboard unifies every site, device and camera
Reviewing an incident means scrubbing hours of raw footage
Every event logged with thumbnail, AI description and clip
Going "AI CCTV" means ripping out and replacing every camera
Works with the standard HD / IP cameras you already have
Everyone shares one admin login to the whole camera system
Admin / Operator / Viewer roles with scoped permissions
Footage sits on a box anyone on-site can unplug and walk off
Events and clips stored in an isolated per-company database
Getting started means buying a box before you know it works
A spare Android phone can be the device — start free, prove it on one real door
The one recorder dies and the whole site is blind until someone notices
A second device stands by and takes over on its own, on the same rules
Watching from outside means port-forwarding and exposing a camera to the internet
Live view with no router change and nothing of yours reachable from outside

How it works

From nothing to running

1
Nothing Goes Unwatched

Your cameras connect to a small device on site and are watched from that moment on — people, vehicles, fire, intrusion, loitering. The AI Watchman keeps its own watch on the whole scene as well, so a hazard that matches no rule is still caught. Your video stays on your premises.

2
You Are Told What Actually Happened

Before anything reaches you it is written up in plain English and given a threat level from Critical to Routine, with false alarms filtered out. Built for reliability, so it keeps working without interruption.

3
You Get the Alert That Matters

Alert rules match each event against type, priority, camera, device and schedule. A rich visual alert reaches you by email and push notification — with cooldown windows so you are informed, never spammed.

Capability

Everything AI Cam covers

The complete feature set, grouped by what it does for you.

Intelligent Detection, Not Motion Alerts

  • Instant — you are told while it is happening, not after
  • Detects people, vehicles, fire, smoke, intrusion, motion and loitering
  • Customizable detection zones focus AI on high-risk areas
  • Per-camera detection toggle — pause coverage without unplugging
  • Works with standard high-definition IP cameras you already own
  • Private by design — your continuous footage is never uploaded anywhere

AI Watchman — Judgment, Not Just Detection

  • An always-on second pair of eyes that watches the whole scene, not one thing at a time
  • Sees what no alert rule covers — fire, smoke, a weapon, a fall, a snake, a fight
  • Open-ended by design: it reports any danger it sees, including things nobody asked it to watch for
  • Give it standing instructions in plain English — "watch the kids near the pool"
  • Your instructions add duties to its watch; they never limit what else it may report
  • Findings rated low, medium, high or critical — you set the level that reaches you
  • Watch on movement, on a timer, or both — so a hazard that is perfectly still is still found
  • Daily limit and per-camera cooldown you control, so cost and 3am noise stay predictable
  • Watchman Log records every scan including the quiet ones — proof it is genuinely watching

Verified Before It Reaches You — Pay Only For What Runs

  • Every event is independently checked before it becomes an alert
  • Human-readable incident descriptions written automatically
  • Threat-level classification — Critical, High, Medium, Routine
  • Intelligent false-positive suppression cuts the noise
  • Credits are spent per frame analysed — a quiet site costs almost nothing
  • Monthly credits on every plan, top up any amount on top
  • Runs out? Detection, alerts and recording all carry on regardless
  • Resilient by design — no single point of failure, analysis never stops

Detection Zones — Watch Only What Matters

  • Draw the exact area to watch directly on your camera's own view
  • Ignore-zones for public roads, neighbouring gates and busy pavements
  • Judged by where a person's feet are, so a passer-by behind a wall is not an alert
  • Enforced on the device — filtered detections cost you no alert and no AI usage
  • Multiple zones per camera, each switched on or off independently
  • Resolution-independent: change the camera and your zones still fit

Face Recognition & Watchlist — Included

  • Included on every plan, including the free one
  • Enrol the people you know — staff, family, regular contractors
  • Build a watchlist and be told the moment that person appears
  • Faces are matched ON the device; enrolment photos never leave your premises
  • Alerts that fire only for strangers, ignoring everyone you have enrolled
  • The person's name appears on the event and inside the alert email
  • Known / Watchlist / Unrecognised shown at a glance in the event log

Actionable Alerts

  • Rich visual alerts by email and mobile push notification
  • Time windows per rule — quiet during business hours, alert overnight
  • Plain-English AI rules like "only if two or more people are visible"
  • Smart anti-spam cooldown — never flooded by the same alert
  • Rules by event type, priority, device, camera, person and schedule
  • Every notification logged with sent / failed delivery status

Device & Camera Management

  • Register and manage local AI devices across every location
  • Real-time heartbeat tracking — online / offline at a glance
  • Automatic health checks flag dropped devices the moment they go down
  • Configure unlimited cameras per device with individual settings
  • Secure device-to-cloud connections with built-in abuse protection
  • Zero-setup — the module configures itself automatically on first use

Start On a Spare Phone — or No Box at All

  • A spare Android phone can BE the device — the cheapest way in, and enough for one or two cameras
  • No cameras yet? The phone's own front and back lenses each become a camera, with their own alerts and zones
  • Press Scan network and pick your camera from a list instead of typing an address
  • Point it at a DVR / NVR and every channel is added in one go — analogue cameras included
  • Or run it on a mini-PC, a Raspberry Pi, a laptop — Linux, Windows or macOS
  • No machine to spare at all? Ask us to watch your cameras from our cloud instead
  • The dashboard works out how many cameras each device can comfortably carry, from what that device reports

Live View Without Opening Your Router

  • Watch any camera live from desktop or the mobile app — nothing to install
  • No port-forwarding and no public IP: your device publishes outward, nothing connects inward to your network
  • Works behind home and mobile broadband, where a port-forward is simply not possible
  • SD / HD switch in the player for sites on a slow upload
  • Only the cameras you switch on are ever published — the rest stay entirely private
  • Live view is an optional add-on, and included on Enterprise

Arming, Modes & Per-Camera Control

  • Away / Home / Night in one tap from the top of your dashboard
  • Auto-Night Arming — the site arms itself overnight even if nobody pressed Away
  • Any camera can ignore the site and keep its own hours: the yard stays armed while the family is home
  • A shop floor can arm itself at closing time whether or not anyone remembered
  • Every camera carries its own Watchman duties, alert rules, recording policy and retention
  • One line on the dashboard says how many cameras are armed right now — and flags any camera nothing is watching

Recording That Stays Yours

  • Continuous 24/7 recording and short event clips, both on your own device's disk
  • Play a recording back in your browser over your own network — the video never travels via us
  • Per-camera choice: clips only, continuous, its own hours, its own retention in days
  • Recording follows its own schedule, so a camera films overnight whether or not the site is armed
  • The dashboard shows how much footage each device holds and how much room is left
  • Off-site cloud clip storage is available as an optional add-on if you want a copy away from the building

If a Device Dies, Something Else Takes Over

  • Name a second device as standby for a camera and it takes over on its own when the first stops reporting
  • The standby costs nothing while it waits — no detection, no scans, no credits, and it is never billed as a second camera
  • It inherits the main camera's rules, zones and hours, so it takes over on exactly the same terms
  • When the main device returns it takes the camera back — there is never more than one watching
  • Cameras re-find themselves after a power cut or a changed IP, with no new URL to type in
  • Software updates install themselves in the background — no terminal, no site visit

Your Phone Is the Control Room

  • Critical alerts sound a full-screen alarm at alarm volume on a locked phone, with the photo on it
  • See at a glance whether you are actually protected — a banner names any device down or camera blind
  • Arm and disarm, switch the AI Watchman on or off, and see today's scan count
  • Open any event, zoom into the photo, watch the clip, save the full-quality copy
  • Write and change alert rules, and add a face to your People list straight from an event
  • Five badges per camera — armed, watched, covered by rules, recording, live — so a gap is visible without opening anything

Analytics & Reporting

  • Activity pattern grid — every day against every hour, in your own timezone
  • Position heatmap showing where people actually appear in frame
  • Dwell time — typical, average and longest visit, timed per arrival
  • Busiest-camera ranking and people counting by arrival, not by frame
  • Event totals, priority mix, false-positive rate and alerts sent
  • Daily trend charts across 7 to 90 days, with CSV export

Security, Roles & Privacy

  • Your own isolated database on every plan — never an upsell
  • Your events, images and enrolled faces are physically separate from every other customer
  • Admin, Operator and Viewer roles with permission-based access
  • All data and credentials encrypted at rest with AES-256
  • Encrypted, authenticated device communication — HTTPS only
  • Complete activity log and audit trail of every action
  • Configurable event retention with automated cleanup

Who it is for

Where it earns its place

Homes & Residential

Turn the cameras you already own into a watchful AI guard. Get a push notification with a photo the moment a person or vehicle enters your property — and nothing when it is just a passing cat.

Houses, apartments, gated villas, private compounds, holiday homes
Offices & Commercial Buildings

Monitor entrances, lobbies and restricted areas with detection zones and business-hours alert rules. Operators watch live events while admins control settings and configuration.

Corporate offices, retail stores, clinics, banks, co-working spaces
Warehouses & Industrial Sites

Cover large perimeters with multiple local AI devices on one dashboard. Fire and smoke detection plus intrusion alerts protect high-value inventory around the clock.

Warehouses, factories, logistics yards, cold storage, plant rooms
Builders & Multi-Site Operators

Secure active construction sites and manage every location from a single unified hub. Loitering and intrusion detection guard equipment after hours, with role-based access for site teams.

Construction sites, property developers, facility managers, security firms
Retail & Showrooms

Know when someone enters after closing, and keep the shop floor free of false alarms during trading hours. Zone off the till area and the stockroom door, and put staff on the known list so only unfamiliar faces raise a flag.

Shops, showrooms, pharmacies, petrol stations, restaurants, salons
Schools, Clinics & Care

Watch entrances and restricted corridors without watching the people you already trust. Enrolled staff pass unnoticed while an unrecognised face at a side door raises an immediate alert with a photo.

Schools, nurseries, clinics, care homes, laboratories, pharmacies

Commercials

Pricing

Free
$0 / forever
Everything you need to see whether AI surveillance actually helps you — running on one real camera, not a demo.
Professional
$12 / month
More cameras, longer history, and the alert channels that matter when nobody is watching the dashboard.
Enterprise
On request
For security firms, developers and operators running many sites. Priced per deployment, with onboarding and a named contact.
Add on what you actually needPer month
Additional Camera — Add one more camera to your account. Buy as many as you have cameras — a single local device can watch several at once, so extra cameras usually need no extra hardware. (buy as many as you need) $3
Cloud Clip Storage — Keep event clips in the cloud so footage survives the device being stolen or wiped. Includes 10GB with 90-day retention. Your device already records locally at no cost — this is the off-site copy. $4
Live Video Streaming — Watch any camera live from the same dashboard as your events — no separate manufacturer app, no port forwarding. Priced because live streams run through our relay and consume bandwidth. $10
Usage top-ups — bought once, never a subscriptionPrice (USD)
2,500 credits $20
5,250 credits — includes 250 bonus $35
10,750 credits — includes 750 bonus $60
22,000 credits — includes 2,000 bonus $100
45,000 credits — includes 5,000 bonus $175

Before you ask

The questions buyers actually ask

What is AI Cam and how is it different from normal CCTV?

AI Cam is an AI-powered smart surveillance platform. Traditional CCTV simply records — you only find out about an incident when you review the tape afterwards. AI Cam adds intelligence: your cameras are watched in real time, real threats are picked out and independently checked, and each one is written up with a threat level. You get a rich visual alert the moment something matters, instead of hours of footage nobody is watching.

Do I need to replace my existing cameras?

No. AI Cam works with the standard HD and IP cameras you already own — anything that provides an RTSP stream. Even if your cameras all run through a DVR or NVR recorder box, nothing gets rewired: the recorder keeps recording and showing on your TV, and AI Cam reads the channels you choose over your own network. You add one small local AI device (a mini-PC or Raspberry Pi class box) per site, and it does the detection. There is no rip-and-replace and no proprietary camera to buy.

How does it avoid false alarms?

Raw motion is never enough to alert you on its own — it has to be a real detection first, and you can draw detection zones so streets, skies and corridors are ignored entirely. Every event that gets through is then independently checked, given a threat level, and false positives are suppressed. Cooldown windows on alert rules then make sure the same event never spams you.

What events can it detect?

Detection covers people, vehicles, fire and smoke, intrusion, general motion and loitering. Events are then classified across sixteen types, which also include falls, crowds, zone breaches, packages, animals, weapons, bags, phones and screens. Beyond any fixed list, the AI Watchman judges the scene itself — so a danger nobody wrote a rule for is still reported. Each camera can have its own detection zones and its own detection on/off toggle, so coverage is tuned exactly to each location.

What is the AI Watchman?

An alert rule answers a fixed question: is there a person, a vehicle, a fire? The AI Watchman asks an open one — is anything here wrong? It watches the way a night guard would and reports what it finds, including dangers nobody configured a rule for: someone who has fallen and is not moving, a fight, a weapon, a snake in the yard, a child alone near water, smoke already filling a room. You can give it standing instructions in plain English, such as "watch the kids near the pool" — those are duties added to its watch, never a filter on what else it may report. Findings are rated from low to critical and you set the level that reaches you, with a daily limit and a cooldown you choose so the cost stays predictable.

How will I be alerted?

Alerts arrive by email and push notification with an event thumbnail and an AI-written description. You build alert rules around event type, priority, device, camera and schedule — including business-hours awareness — and the dashboard also gives immediate in-browser audio-visual warnings for critical events.

Can I monitor multiple locations at once?

Yes. Whether you have two offices or fifty warehouses, multiple local AI devices report into one unified cloud dashboard. Device heartbeat monitoring shows you online / offline status across every site in real time.

How is my privacy and data protected?

Each company gets a completely isolated database — your events and clips are fully separated from every other customer. Your raw footage stays on your own premises and is never uploaded. Device communication is encrypted and authenticated over HTTPS, all data and credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256, and every action is recorded in an audit trail.

A further 15 answers are on the product page: iosnack.com/products/ai_cam

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