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AI-driven. On your network.
Yours to own — for 30% less.

A complete kit — recorder, PoE cameras, and PoE switch — pre-configured. One-time price from $3,490, about 30% below name-brand systems, with phone and laptop remote access included. The AI runs on your appliance, your video never leaves your network, and there’s no monthly fee, ever.

  • One-time price · no monthly fee
  • Phone & laptop access included
  • Your video stays at home
  • Real-time AI on every camera
Built for

From the front porch to the back lot.

The same appliance scales from a single home camera to a multi-building facility. The AI doesn’t care what you point it at — it just learns what’s normal and flags what isn’t.

Four-camera NVR live-view mosaic at dusk: a front porch with a delivery person and a package, a small storefront with a parked car, a modern office building lobby, and an industrial warehouse yard — each tile labeled with its camera name and overlaid with neon-blue AI bounding boxes around detected people and vehicles
One appliance. Four very different sites. Same AI watching every frame.

Homes

Front door, driveway, backyard, garage. Know when family arrives, when packages land, when somebody loiters. Reduce false alarms from leaves, shadows, and passing cars to near-zero.

  • Who's at the door, right now
  • “Mom got home” notification
  • Package-on-doorstep alerts
  • Pets in / out of the yard

Small Businesses & Storefronts

Watch entrances, cash areas, parking, and after-hours activity. Get a written summary of what happened overnight, before you even unlock the door in the morning.

  • After-hours intrusion detection
  • Daily activity recap each morning
  • Customer foot-traffic counts (optional)
  • Suspicious-loitering alerts

Property & Facility Managers

One appliance per building covers entrances, mail rooms, hallways, and parking. Multi-camera dashboards keep operators focused, while AI does the watching.

  • Multi-camera dashboard for operators
  • Zone-based filtering per camera
  • Searchable event archive
  • Optional remote access for off-site teams

Yards, Lots & Perimeters

Big, mostly-empty spaces are exactly where motion-based alerts go to die. Owl-NVR ignores wind and lights, and flags only what walks, drives, or shouldn't be there.

  • Perimeter intrusion at any hour
  • Vehicle vs. person classification
  • License-plate-friendly framing tips
  • Wide-angle coverage with smart zones
Same UI on every device

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

The full Owl-NVR experience runs on a wall-mounted monitor, on any laptop browser, and on iOS or Android — same dashboard, same live view, same events, same search. No stripped-down companion app, no second product to learn. Included with every kit, $0 per month, ever.

$0 / month, everNo port forwarding requiredDesktop · Web · iOS · Android
ai-nvr.local · Dashboard
Owl-NVR desktop dashboard with live multi-camera detections, event highlights, and system health
Owl-NVR mobile dashboard on a phone, showing the same UI as the desktop
iOS · Android
Same dashboard. Same data. Same network. Different screen.

Every section ships on every device

  • Dashboard

    Active cameras, active alerts, recent AI-flagged highlights — right on the home screen.

  • Live View

    All your cameras in one grid, with the same AI overlays you see on the desktop UI.

  • Events

    Full event timeline with plain-English summaries and threat scoring. Filter and review on the go.

  • Explore / Search

    Type what you remember — “white SUV last night”, “person at side gate” — and jump to the clip.

  • Faces

    Browse recognized people across the timeline, enroll new faces from a clip you tapped.

  • Settings

    Camera management, retention, AI tuning, user accounts — the full admin surface.

Live camera frame with neon-blue AI bounding boxes labeling three people and two cars in real time, each with a tracking ID and confidence score, and faint motion trails behind the walking pedestrians
Front gate camera · 5 objects tracked · 47 ms inference
AI Detection · Tracking

AI watches every frame.
Tracks every object.

Real-time AI runs on every camera stream — drawing labeled boxes around people, vehicles, animals, and packages as they appear, and following each one across frames so a moving car never looks like “a new car every second.”

  • Knows what it sees

    People, vehicles, animals, packages, plus custom classes you can add. Labels appear right on the live view.

  • Tracks across frames

    Every car and every person gets its own ID and trajectory — not single-frame guesses that flicker on and off.

  • Per-camera zones

    Watch the gate, ignore the road. Mask out the tree that sways in the wind, per camera, in seconds.

  • Real-time on every stream

    Runs on every camera at once, on the appliance in your closet. No cloud round-trip, no lag.

Inference happens on your appliance — video never leaves your network.
What it actually tells you

Detection sees. Owl-NVR explains.

Boxes and labels tell you what is in the frame. Owl-NVR reads the whole scene, decides whether you actually need to look, and writes one sentence explaining why — so 200 motion pings a day become a handful of things that matter.

Front Door·2 min ago

Package delivered at the front door

A delivery driver dropped a parcel on the doormat and walked back to the truck.

Normal activity
Driveway·11 min ago

Mom's car pulled into the driveway

Recognized vehicle entered the property and parked in its usual spot.

Known vehicle
Side Gate·Just now

Someone is lingering near the side gate

A person has been standing by the gate for over a minute and looked toward the cameras twice.

Suspicious · Level 1
Backyard·23 min ago

Buddy was let out into the backyard

Dog detected in the yard after the back door opened. No people followed.

Pet activity
Front Door·Just now

Forced entry attempt at the front door

Repeated impacts on the door, multiple people in frame. Recording flagged for review.

Immediate · Level 2
Curb·1 h ago

Mail dropped in the mailbox

Postal vehicle stopped briefly and delivered to the curbside mailbox.

Normal activity

Examples shown. Your Owl-NVR learns your property’s normal rhythm — deliveries, family vehicles, the dog, the mail truck — so the right things grab your attention and the noise stays quiet.

Plug-and-play

From box to recording in under an hour.

No tech-support call, no MSP onboarding, no SaaS sign-up flow. The appliance ships pre-configured — you supply power, network, and cameras.

Owl-NVR system wiring diagram: two PoE IP cameras connect through a PoE switch to the 2U Owl-NVR appliance, which feeds a desktop monitor showing a multi-camera AI dashboard. Cables are labeled PoE + Data, LAN / Uplink, and HDMI / Display.
PoE delivers power + video, one cable per cameraOne LAN cable from switch to NVROr run the same UI in any browser / phone
  1. STEP 01~30 min

    Unbox & rack

    Slide the 2U recorder onto the rails. Mount cameras with the supplied brackets.

  2. STEP 02~10 min

    Power on, one cable

    PoE carries both power and data — one Cat6 run per camera back to the switch.

  3. STEP 03~5 min

    First camera live

    Open the web UI, Owl-NVR auto-discovers ONVIF cameras and starts AI inference on every stream.

No cloud sign-upNo SaaS accountNo installer required
Complete kit pricing

One price. One box. No subscription, ever.

Recorder, cameras, PoE switch, cables, and setup — in one order. Phone and laptop remote access is included with every kit. No SaaS, no per-camera monthly fee, no surprise add-ons.

Starter Kit

For a home or single storefront.

$3,490USD · one-time · no monthly fee
Cameras
4 × 5 MP bullet (PoE, IP67)
Storage
4 TB Seagate Skyhawk
Recorder
Standard recorder (i5 · 32 GB · Arc A380)
LLM
On-device AI
  • Phone & laptop remote access included — no subscription
  • Up to 8 cameras supported
  • ~30 days retention at 4 Mbps avg
  • 8-port PoE+ switch & cables
  • 12-month support
Recommended

Pro Kit

For a small business or property.

$5,990USD · one-time · no monthly fee
Cameras
8 × 5 MP (mixed bullet & dome)
Storage
8 TB Seagate Skyhawk
Recorder
Pro recorder (i7 · 64 GB · RTX 3050)
LLM
On-device AI (mid)
  • Phone & laptop remote access included — no subscription
  • Up to 16 cameras supported
  • ~45 days retention at 4 Mbps avg
  • 24-port PoE+ switch & cables
  • Priority support · dedicated onboarding call

Enterprise Kit

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

$13,990USD · from · no monthly fee
Cameras
16 × 5 MP (bullet, dome, PTZ on request)
Storage
4 × 8 TB Skyhawk AI (32 TB raw)
Recorder
Pro recorder · redundant PSU on request
LLM
On-device AI (large) or cloud provider
  • Multi-user phone & laptop access included — no subscription
  • Up to 48 cameras supported
  • ~60+ days retention at 4 Mbps avg
  • 48-port PoE+ switch & SFP uplinks
  • Engineering support · multi-site config

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

See it running on your own cameras.

Book a 20-minute live walkthrough, or send us your property details and we’ll come back with a tailored hardware quote. One business day, from a human.