Local AI · Private Network · No Subscription

Upgrade to AI-Engineered Surveillance in 30 Minutes.

Upgrade the recorder. Keep your cameras and wiring. Go beyond object detection with multi-step AI investigations, event search and analysis, and automatic summary reports. Video stays on your network. One-time price. No monthly fee.

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No Subscription
No Rewiring — Keep Your Cameras
Local LLM/AI — No API Fees
Phone & Laptop Access Included
Auto-Discovers Your Cameras

Plug-and-play upgrade

From install to live search — same day.

You supply the cameras you already have. We supply the recorder and PoE switch. Owl-NVR discovers your streams, connects automatically, and starts recording with smart search and alerts — no SaaS onboarding, no cloud archive.

Owl-NVR upgrade diagram: existing IP cameras connect through a PoE switch to the local Owl-NVR recorder, with phone and laptop access on the same network — no cloud upload

Your existing cameras stay in placePoE switch + recorder on your LANSearch & alerts from any browser or phone

STEP 01~15 min
Install recorder & switch
Mount the 2U appliance and connect the PoE switch to your existing network. Your cameras stay where they are.
STEP 02~15 min
We find your cameras
Owl-NVR scans the network and connects to your existing IP cameras automatically — no RTSP URL hunting, no brand setup.
STEP 03Same day
Search & alerts go live
Same day, your team can search footage, set zone rules, and get meaningful alerts from the cameras you already own.

No cloud sign-upKeep your existing camerasNo rip-and-replace

Need new cameras too? We can supply PoE bullet and dome cameras as an optional add-on — most upgrades only require the recorder and switch.

Video search

Stop rewinding.
Find the clip you need.

When something happens, you shouldn’t spend an hour clicking through motion events. Describe what you’re looking for and Owl-NVR surfaces the moments that match — search runs on your recorder, not a vendor cloud.

“white truck at the loading dock between 10 PM and 2 AM”
“person near the back door after closing”
“plate 7XYZ123 at the gate this week”

Describe what you remember
Type a plain-English query — vehicle color, location, time window — and jump straight to matching clips.
Filter by time, camera, and zone
Narrow results to the loading dock, the parking lot, or a single night shift without rewinding hour by hour.
Search by license plate
Find every visit from a specific plate alongside your video archive — useful for lots, gates, and driveways.

Owl-NVR search interface showing a query for a white truck at the loading dock after 10 PM with matching video thumbnails and time filters

Explore · plain-language search · runs on your recorder

Owl-NVR events timeline with plain-English alert summaries ranked by severity, showing warehouse and loading dock activity

Investigate · summarize · alert — beyond object detection

AI investigations & reports

Beyond object detection.
Investigate and summarize.

Most AI cameras only draw boxes. Owl-NVR runs multi-step AI investigations, event search and analysis, and automatic summary reports — so you get answers and overnight recaps, not another pile of motion spam.

Multi-step AI investigations
Ask what happened, follow related clips across cameras, and dig past a single detection box — the AI helps you reconstruct the event, not just label a frame.
Automatic summary reports
Get written overnight and on-demand recaps: what mattered, what was routine, and what still needs review — before you open the door.
Zones, schedules, and alerts that explain
Watch the dock after hours and ignore daytime traffic. Alerts say what happened in plain English — not another generic motion ping.

Private by design

You don't have to trust the cloud.

Owl-NVR is built for businesses that want better search and alerts without handing their video to a SaaS vendor. Everything runs on the box at your site — local LLM/AI, no API fees.

Diagram showing Owl-NVR recorder and cameras inside a private on-site network boundary, with cloud upload crossed out — Video stays in your building · search runs locally

Processing stays on site
Search, alerts, and recording run on the appliance we install at your location — not on a vendor's servers.
Your footage, your storage
Video is written to local drives on the recorder. Nothing is uploaded to a cloud archive you don't control.
No cloud subscription
Remote viewing from phone or laptop doesn't mean sending your archive to the cloud. One-time hardware, no monthly recording fee.
Not used to train someone else's model
Your cameras watch your property. Footage stays in your building and isn't harvested for third-party training.

Local recorder · no cloud archive · no per-camera monthly fee

Built for

Small businesses that already have cameras.

Most of our customers aren't starting from zero — they have a DVR, a handful of IP cameras, and a growing pile of footage nobody has time to watch. Owl-NVR upgrades what you have.

Four-camera live view mosaic: a storefront entrance, a warehouse loading dock, an office building lobby, and an industrial yard — each with activity labels for people and vehicles — Same recorder. Different sites. Search and alerts on every stream.

Storefronts & Retail

Watch entrances, cash areas, and after-hours activity. Search for a specific vehicle or person instead of rewinding through a full night of motion events.

After-hours zone alerts
Overnight activity summary
Search by description or plate
Phone access for owners on the go

Warehouses & Loading Docks

Big open spaces are where motion-based alerts go to die. Flag only what enters your dock zones or back doors — ignore headlights, wind, and daytime traffic.

Loading dock zone rules
Vehicle & person search
License plate at the gate
Multi-camera timeline

Property & Facility Managers

One appliance covers entrances, parking, hallways, and common areas. Operators search across every camera from one screen — footage stays on site.

Multi-camera dashboard
Zone rules per camera
Searchable event archive
Optional remote access for off-site teams

Lots, Yards & Perimeters

Perimeter cameras you already own get smarter search and fewer false alarms. Find the white truck from Tuesday night without calling your integrator.

Perimeter intrusion zones
Vehicle search by color or type
Plate recognition at gates
Local storage, no cloud fees

Same UI on every device

The monitor in your office. The phone in your pocket.

Search, review alerts, and watch live video from a wall-mounted monitor, any laptop browser, or your phone — same dashboard, same archive, same network. Included with every upgrade, $0 per month.

$0 / month, everNo port forwarding requiredDesktop · Web · iOS · Android

Owl-NVR desktop dashboard with live multi-camera views, recent events, and system health

Owl-NVR mobile dashboard on a phone, showing the same UI as the desktop

Same dashboard. Same data. Same network. Different screen.

Every section ships on every device

Dashboard
Active cameras, open alerts, and recent highlights — everything worth reviewing on one home screen.
Live View
All your cameras in one grid. Same layout on the wall monitor, laptop, and phone.
Events
A timeline of what happened, with plain-language summaries. Filter by severity and mark items reviewed.
Explore / Search
Type what you remember — “white truck at loading dock last night” — and jump to the clip.
Settings
Camera management, zones, retention, and user accounts — the full admin surface.

Real examples

Investigate. Search. Get the report.

Beyond object detection: multi-step AI investigations, event search and analysis, and automatic summary reports — the moments business owners actually need, not another motion ping.

Loading Dock·Found in 4 sec

Search: white truck at loading dock, 10 PM–2 AM

Three clips matched — delivery truck backed to Bay 2 at 11:14 PM and departed at 11:22 PM.

Search result

Back Door·Last night

After-hours entry at warehouse back door

Person entered the back-door zone at 9:47 PM. Daytime employee traffic on the same camera was not alerted.

After hours · Zone alert

Gate·This week

Plate 7XYZ123 at the gate — 4 visits this week

License plate recognized on Tuesday and Thursday. Jump to any visit from search or the plate filter.

Plate search

Side Entrance·Just now

Investigation: who was at the side entrance?

Multi-step review across Side Entrance and Parking Lot — person lingered over a minute, looked toward cameras twice, then left toward the lot. Linked clips ready to open.

Multi-step investigation

All cameras·6:00 AM

Summary report: 2 deliveries, 1 review item

Automatic overnight recap before opening: two routine drop-offs at the loading dock and one person near the side entrance after 11 PM.

Summary report

Parking Lot·Overnight

Motion on the parking lot — ignored

Headlights and shadows triggered 47 motion events. None matched your after-hours zone rules, so no alert was sent.

Filtered out

Examples shown. Your rules — zones, hours, plates — determine what gets flagged and what stays quiet.

Upgrade pricing

Recorder + switch. Your cameras. No subscription.

Every package includes the local Owl-NVR appliance, a PoE switch, and remote access from phone and laptop. Already have cameras? You only need the upgrade kit. New cameras are an optional add-on — reach out for a quote.

Starter Upgrade

For a single storefront or small site.

$2,690USD · one-time · no monthly fee

Streams: Up to 8 camera streams
Recorder: Standard recorder (i5 · 32 GB · Arc A380)
Switch: 8-port PoE+ switch & cables
Storage: 4 TB Seagate Skyhawk
Cameras: Optional add-on — not required

Recorder + PoE switch — use your existing cameras
Automatic camera discovery on your network
Phone & laptop remote access included — no subscription
~30 days retention at 4 Mbps avg
12-month support

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Pro Upgrade

For a warehouse, lot, or multi-area business.

$3,690USD · one-time · no monthly fee

Streams: Up to 16 camera streams
Recorder: Pro recorder (i7 · 64 GB · RTX 3050)
Switch: 24-port PoE+ switch & cables
Storage: 8 TB Seagate Skyhawk
Cameras: Optional add-on — not required

Recorder + PoE switch — keep the cameras you already have
Same-day search and alerts after install
Phone & laptop remote access included — no subscription
~45 days retention at 4 Mbps avg
Priority support · dedicated onboarding call

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Enterprise Upgrade

For a facility, campus, or multi-building deployment.

$6,990USD · from · no monthly fee

Streams: Up to 48 camera streams
Recorder: Pro recorder · redundant PSU on request
Switch: 48-port PoE+ switch & SFP uplinks
Storage: 4 × 8 TB Skyhawk AI (32 TB raw)
Cameras: Optional — quoted per site

Multi-building upgrade from existing camera fleets
Multi-user phone & laptop access — no subscription
~60+ days retention at 4 Mbps avg
Engineering support · multi-site configuration
On-site install available

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Starter and Pro upgrades checkout securely via Stripe. Enterprise deployments are quoted individually — shipping and tax are calculated at checkout where applicable.

See it on your cameras.

Send us your camera count and we’ll confirm compatibility — or book a 20-minute walkthrough on a live system. One business day, from a human.

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