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Surveillance Guardian

Find faults before your clients do — every issue becomes a planned, billable callout

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Solution Type: ARC (Alarm Receiving Center), Cloud Hosted Storage, Health Monitoring Platform, VMS, Video Analytics, Face Redaction
Targeted Industries: Banking and Finance | Retail | Healthcare | Education | Government Facilities | Safe City | Commercial | Data Centers | Utilities, Energy and Mining | Manufacturing and Industrial | Public Transport | Residential | Sport and Leisure | Traffic Management | Logistics | General | Casinos and Gaming | Remote Monitoring Service(RMS)
Hikvision Verified

Solution Description

Surveillance Guardian is a remote CCTV management platform that answers a question traditional monitoring can't: is this system actually producing usable evidence? It combines automated health checks, in-house Vision AI image assessment, and secure remote access into a single portal covering every site.

 

1. Automated System Health Checks Every 5 Minutes
Cameras, recorders, drives, firmware, and system clock are all verified continuously. Faults are flagged before a client discovers them.

 

2. Vision AI: Evidence Quality Scored Out of 100
A camera can be online, recording, and still useless — out of focus, glare-blinded, knocked out of position, or too dark to identify anyone. Vision AI scores every camera automatically, with a severity rating and confidence level:

  • Scored separately day and night, so IR failures and night-time exposure problems don't hide
  • Individual checks for blur, glare, darkness, noise and occlusion — the engineer arrives knowing whether it's focus, a dirty dome, or a blocked view
  • Tamper and scene-change detection flags moved or covered cameras even when the camera reports no fault
  • Scene understanding describes each view in plain English, building a verified record of what every camera covers

 

3. Secure Remote Access No Port Forwarding
Traditional remote access means punching a hole in the client's firewall and exposing recorders to the internet. Surveillance Guardian uses outbound-only tunnels through our own UK infrastructure. No open ports, no static IPs, no targets for attackers. Includes remote GUI access, footage retrieval, and automatic GDPR face redaction from your desk.

 

4. Connectivity Anywhere
Works on any internet connection. No broadband? A dual-antenna 4G variant ships with a UK SIM and runs anywhere with mobile coverage.

 

5. One Platform, All Sites
Every client and site in a single portal, with instant secure connection to any UK ARC.

 

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The application of this solution should be subject to the applicable local laws and regulations.
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User Benefits

  • Find faults before your clients do — every issue becomes a planned, billable callout
  • Fewer wasted site visits — footage, reboots and diagnostics handled from your desk
  • Win and retain contracts with daily fault reports as proof of service
  • GDPR requests handled in minutes with automatic redaction and a full audit trail
  • No port forwarding — zero attack surface on your clients's networks

Key Features

  • 5-Minute Health Checks
  • Vision AI Evidence Scoring
  • Remote Footage Retrieval & GDPR Redaction
  • Gatekeeper Recorder Credential Management
  • Instant ARC Connection — Zero Port Forwarding

Solution Architecture

The EM8 Hub sits on the site network and discovers the recorder locally. It holds an outbound-only TLS tunnel to our UK infrastructure — no port forwarding, no static IP. The EM8 Portal delivers 5-minute health checks, Vision AI evidence-quality scoring, remote footage retrieval with GDPR redaction, Gatekeeper credential control, and instant ARC connection via Cortex Connect.

Hikvision Product Compatibility

Network Products

Turbo HD Products

Technical Details

Partner Product Name: Surveillance Guardian

Partner Product Version: v3.2

Hikvision Product Models and Firmware Versions: DS-7732NI-M4 (V5.03.010); iDS-9664NXI-M8/X (V5.04.020); DS-7616NI-M2/16P (V5.02.000)

Integration Protocol: ISAPI

Availability

Regions: Europe

Languages: English

About Engineer M8

At the core of Engineer M8 is a passion for solving real-world challenges through cutting-edge technology. We combine robust hardware with proprietary AI-driven software to deliver complete, done-for-you solutions across surveillance, ANPR and parking, vehicle tracking, fire safety and field service all managed remotely from a single cloud platform, the EM8 Portal, with native iOS and Android apps.

Founded by engineers with 12+ years hands-on experience in the UK fire and security industry, we build products that deploy Hikvision hardware as fully managed services rather than boxes. Our Hikvision integrations — including Surveillance Guardian and ANPR Guardian — are Hikvision Verified and published as joint-value solutions, integrating Hikvision NVRs, ANPR cameras and barriers with automated monitoring, DVLA-driven enforcement, AI event handling and remote maintenance.

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