Two failures. One service.
Evidence has two single points of failure: the box the footage lives on, and the room the people watch it from. Kevlar DR removes both.
Pillar 1 — CCTV Cloud Backup
Your footage is continuously streamed off-site to the cloud as it records. The recorder stops being the single point of failure.
Stolen, burned, flooded or failed DVRs and NVRs no longer mean lost evidence — it's already off the premises, tamper-resistant and preserved.
Retention runs to your policy (30/60/90 days or custom), with evidence holds for flagged footage, and camera-health monitoring that flags offline cameras and failed recordings before they become gaps.
Pillar 2 — Control-Room Failover
For businesses running an in-house control room: what happens when it goes down? Load shedding, connectivity failure, fire, a staffing crisis — monitoring stops exactly when risk peaks.
With Kevlar Failover on standby, our SARA-powered monitoring centre takes over your feeds and keeps watching until your room is back up — SARA verifying against your standing orders, acting in seconds, with every incident report checked by a person before it reaches you.
Standby is a monthly retainer; activation is priced on application. A DR readiness assessment maps your feeds, escalation contacts and takeover procedure before you ever need it.
Evidence that can't disappear
Continuous cloud backup
Footage streamed off-site as it records — not scheduled dumps that leave gaps for an incident to fall into.
Tamper-resistant preservation
Off-premises storage beyond the reach of the person stealing the recorder — including the insider who knows where it is.
Retention management
30, 60, 90-day or custom cycles on POPIA-aligned schedules, with legal-hold preservation for flagged evidence.
Rapid restore
Footage back in your hands fast — for the insurance claim, the criminal case, or the CCMA hearing.
Camera-health monitoring
Offline cameras, failed recordings and dead feeds flagged proactively — before they become the gap in your evidence.
SARA-powered failover
Kevlar's monitoring centre on standby to take over your control room's feeds — SARA running your standing orders, on your worst day.
From assessment to always-covered
Assess
A DR readiness assessment maps your cameras, recorders, bandwidth, retention needs and — for failover — your escalation contacts and takeover procedure.
Connect
Backup connects at recorder or camera level over your internet connection. Failover clients' feeds are pre-configured into the Kevlar platform, dormant until needed.
Protect
Footage streams off-site continuously. Camera health is watched. Failover sits armed on standby retainer.
Recover
Recorder gone? Restore the footage. Control room down? Kevlar takes over the watching — until you're back on your feet.
Priced on assessment. Standby from R2,000.
Cloud backup is priced per channel per month, set by camera count, resolution and retention period — confirmed in your DR assessment. Control-room failover standby starts at R2,000 per month, with activation priced on application to your feed count and duration.
Asked straight, answered straight
What happens to my footage if the recorder is stolen or destroyed?
It's already gone off-site. Kevlar DR streams your footage to the cloud continuously as it records, so the DVR stops being the single point of failure. Stolen, burned, flooded or failed recorders no longer mean lost evidence.
What exactly is control-room failover?
If you run your own in-house control room and it goes down — load shedding, connectivity, fire, staffing — Kevlar's SARA-powered monitoring centre takes over your feeds and keeps watching until you're operational again. Standby is a monthly retainer from R2,000; activation is priced on application.
How long is footage kept?
To your policy — commonly 30, 60 or 90 days — managed on POPIA-aligned retention schedules, with legal-hold preservation available for footage flagged as evidence in a case or hearing.
Will it work with my existing cameras?
In most cases yes — backup connects at recorder or camera level over your internet connection. The DR assessment confirms compatibility, the bandwidth you need, and the right retention setup before anything is installed. You'll need stable internet and backup power at the site.