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Kevlar Monitoring — Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — Artificial Intelligence

AI CCTV Monitoring · South Africa

Cameras that record are common.Cameras that are watched win.

Kevlar Monitoring is built around SARA — our AI operator — running behavioural inference on your camera feeds and acting on the standing orders you set with us. Human governance, machine execution. Verified alarms, live real-time watching, covert loss-prevention, and footage that can't be stolen with the recorder.

10 seconds
Detection to sirens, audio and three responders called at once
4 Services
Lite · Alive · Covert · DR — one monitoring partner
Never listening
No passive audio, ever. Covert deployments carry none at all
24/7/365
SARA has no bad nights, no sick days, no salary to bribe
Our Services

One AI operator. Four ways to deploy her.

Every Kevlar service runs on the same engine: you set the rules, SARA watches and acts on them, you get the alert and the evidence.

Alert Monitoring

Kevlar Lite

Every alarm and camera event verified by SARA. False alarms die quietly; genuine incidents reach your responder with the clip attached — via sequential calls to up to 3 numbers.

R350 / camera / month
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Real-Time Monitoring

Kevlar Alive

SARA watching every feed continuously during contracted hours — catching what never trips an alarm — with 3 simultaneous calls across 3 escalation layers when it matters.

R550 / camera / month
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Covert Service

Kevlar Covert

Hidden 4MP low-light cameras in your stock room, watched live for theft behaviour and SOP violations. CCMA-ready evidence. 3 & 6-month agreements.

From R6,500 / zone / month
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Disaster Recovery

Kevlar DR

Continuous cloud backup of your CCTV footage plus SARA-powered control-room failover. The first thing criminals take is the recorder — take that option away.

Standby from R2,000 / month
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How SARA works

Human governance. Machine execution.

We don't staff a room with operators watching walls of screens — people blink, tire and look away. Humans write the rules; SARA enforces them without hesitation, every second, on every feed.

You set the rules

Your site's standing orders are built with you before go-live: who may be on site, when, which zones, what counts as a violation. People make those judgement calls — deliberately, in advance, in daylight.

SARA watches

Behavioural inference on every feed — continuously or event-triggered, depending on your service. No fatigue, no bad nights, no looking away at the wrong moment.

SARA verifies and acts

She authenticates the detection against your SOP and, where it is an unambiguous violation, acts immediately — sirens, audio, and simultaneous calls to your responders. Seconds, not minutes.

Governed and audited

Every decision is logged against the rule that triggered it. Humans review the record, tune the SOP and hold the system accountable — governance over the process, rather than a person in every loop.

Full detail: how it works →

Proof, not promises

Three guard posts. Forty cameras. Nobody watching.

A retail mall in the North West was hit twice under human guarding — a ninety-minute burglary and an ATM bombing. Then we put SARA on all forty feeds.

Before Kevlar

Intruders cut the fence, opened the gates and emptied a shop onto an unplated bakkie. It took roughly ninety minutes.

The guards were together at the rear of the mall, unarmed and not patrolling. No alarm. No call. No event logged. The cameras recorded all of it and told nobody.

Three guards cannot watch forty cameras. That is not a discipline problem — it is arithmetic.

After Kevlar Alive

05:22. A white Hilux with no plates cut the bolt and came through the gate. SARA detected the violation as it happened.

Within ten seconds: on-site alarms triggered, an audio talk-down opened, and three armed response companies called in the same instant — not one after another down a list.

All three moved while the intruders were still on the property. The attack was stopped before it started.

On audio — plainly

Our cameras do not listen.

Audio is the part of this industry nobody explains properly, so here is exactly how it works on each Kevlar service. There is no passive listening on any of them.

Kevlar Covert

No audio at all. No microphones, no speakers, nothing. Covert systems watch operational areas and record video only. Putting audio into a covert stock-room deployment would be a serious breach, and we don't do it — on any site, for any client, at any price.

Kevlar Drone

Broadcast only, on some airframes. SARA can speak from the aircraft — telling an intruder plainly that they are seen — but nothing is captured. There is no microphone in the loop. It is a loudhailer, not a listening device.

Kevlar Alive

Two-way, optional, and off by default. Where your hardware supports it and you switch it on, SARA speaks first and identifies the situation. Audio exists only if the person chooses to answer her. Say nothing, and nothing is recorded.

Why it matters: when two-way audio is enabled, SARA can resolve a situation without anyone being dispatched. She can describe what she sees — "you in the red shirt, this area is restricted, leave now" — or ask a person what they are doing there. A contractor who answers with a valid passphrase is authenticated against your own records, and SARA stands the zone down for an agreed period. That is a conversation with a system that announced itself first, not a microphone left running on your site.
The numbers

What does a guard post really cost you?

Compare PSIRA-graded guarding against AI monitoring — with the maths shown openly, including where guarding is still cheaper. No games.

Talk to us

Pick the watching your risk demands.

From verified alarms to covert stock-room protection and footage that can't be stolen — one assessment tells you which Kevlar service fits.

KwaZulu-Natal
Mike Beney
mike@kevlar.africa+27 61 490 3036
Gauteng & North West
Stacey Sacks
stacey@kevlar.africa+27 60 992 5822