For Residential Estates

AI video intelligence for residential estates — on the CCTV you already have.

Sorveo connects to your estate's existing cameras and adds a real-time intelligence layer — alerting the gatehouse when someone who isn't a resident, staff member or registered domestic worker appears on a restricted camera, flagging unknown people after hours and anyone crossing the perimeter, and detecting vehicle activity at the gates. No new cameras, no rip-and-replace.

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Estate security operator monitoring CCTV feeds with Sorveo video intelligence
The problems

A safe estate needs eyes everywhere — always.

Long perimeters, busy gates and quiet late hours. Sorveo gives every camera constant attention so a small guard team can watch a large estate without blind spots.

Gate traffic you can't keep track of

Residents, visitors and contractors stream through gates all day. Sorveo detects vehicles idling, passing or entering a zone at the gate and logs every event, so after-hours movement is flagged.

Perimeter breaches

Fence-jumping and boundary breaches are the classic estate threat. Sorveo flags anyone crossing a perimeter line you draw along the boundary and alerts guards the instant it happens.

Strangers in private areas

Residents, staff and registered domestic workers belong; others don't. With an allowlist on restricted cameras, authorised people pass silently — anyone else raises a critical alert.

Banned individuals returning

Dismissed staff or people banned by the residents' association can try to come back. Sorveo matches faces against your watchlist and alerts the gatehouse with a photo.

Unknown people after hours

Late at night, anyone the system doesn't recognise on a secure camera is worth a look. Sorveo flags unknown people on after-hours cameras, with duplicate suppression so guards aren't flooded with repeat alerts.

Cameras going dark

A camera offline along the perimeter is an open door. Sorveo monitors camera health continuously and flags signal loss, obstruction and tampering the same day.

In practice

What Sorveo does for you.

Access control

Resident, staff and domestic-worker allowlists

Enrol residents, estate staff and registered domestic workers to an allowlist for restricted cameras. They pass silently; anyone else raises a critical alert to the gatehouse. See access control.

Perimeter security

Line-crossing and restricted-area detection

Draw a line along the fence or mark a no-go zone, and Sorveo flags anyone crossing or entering it, day or night, with a snapshot and camera location. See perimeter detection.

Gatehouse alerts

Alerts straight to the guards on duty

Route alerts to gatehouse guards by WhatsApp, SMS, email or in-app. Each guard only hears about the cameras and watchlists that concern them. See real-time alerts.

Gates

Vehicle-activity detection

Sorveo flags vehicles idling, passing or entering a zone at gates and internal roads, and keeps every vehicle event in a searchable history. It detects vehicle presence, not plates. See vehicle activity detection.

Watchlists

Banned-individual watchlists

Keep a watchlist of people barred from the estate and get an alert with a photo when one appears. An unknown sighting can be turned into a named, watchlisted person in one click. See facial recognition.

Review

Searchable history for incidents

Search every recognition by name, camera, date or result type, and review the short event clip around a detection (needs the edge device online or cloud clip storage) — so a resident complaint or theft can be looked into quickly. See incident investigation.

Reporting

Reports for the estate manager

The Exclusion Detection report shows entries on restricted cameras split into authorised and unauthorised, with the cameras that see the most unauthorised entries ranked. Schedule it, or a daily security summary, by email. See security reporting.

Outcomes

Why teams choose Sorveo.

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Rip-and-replace required
24/7
Eyes on every gate
Seconds
From detection to alert
Days
To deploy, not months
Frequently asked

Questions we hear.

Can Sorveo work with our estate's existing CCTV cameras?

Yes. Sorveo adds AI to the IP cameras you already have at your gates, perimeter and common areas through an on-site Sorveo edge appliance, as long as each camera exposes a reachable video stream. There's no rip-and-replace, and each camera's detection profile (face, presence, perimeter or vehicle) can be changed remotely.

How does Sorveo secure the perimeter?

Sorveo applies line-crossing and restricted-area detection to cameras along the boundary. Anyone crossing the perimeter line is flagged in real time and your guard team is alerted with a snapshot and location, including out of hours. See perimeter detection.

How do we know if someone who doesn't belong gets in?

Put an allowlist on restricted cameras: residents, staff and registered domestic workers pass silently, and anyone else raises a critical alert to the gatehouse. Unknown people are also flagged on after-hours cameras, and people on your watchlist of banned individuals trigger an alert with a photo.

How is resident data protected?

Sorveo supports cloud, hybrid and on-premise deployments so footage can stay on the estate network where required, with encryption, role-based access and audit logging.

Is Sorveo deployed in estates across Africa?

Yes. Sorveo supports residential estates and gated communities in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Egypt, with deployment options to suit local bandwidth and compliance needs.

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Make your estate cameras proactive.

Walk through a live deployment with our team, see real detections on real estate feeds, and get a tailored security plan for your community.

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