Your cameras. Our verification layer.
- Event-triggered verification — every alarm measured by SARA against your written rules for that camera, objectively and identically every time
- False-alarm filtering — animals, weather, headlights and shadows die quietly, never reaching you
- One call, no repeat-dialling — the incident is escalated by phone to your nominated number, then the camera stands down from calling for two minutes so you are not rung repeatedly about the same event
- Still watching throughout — the stand-down applies to calling only. SARA keeps watching and logging, and calls again if that camera triggers a fresh event
- Clip attached — your responder sees what SARA saw before they arrive
- Report in five minutes — generated by SARA, checked by a person, issued inside ten
- Up to 25 standing orders per camera — your rules, applied without drift or favour
- After-hours cover — the premises watched when nobody's there
- Works with your existing cameras — no rip-and-replace
- Incident log — every event, verdict and escalation on record
The alarm that cried wolf costs you twice.
Nobody cancels a monitoring contract because of one break-in. They cancel because of the eleventh 2am phone call about a cat.
What false alarms actually cost
Money. Every unnecessary armed response call-out is billable, and most sites are paying for a run of them each month without ever seeing an intruder.
Attention. After enough false alarms, people stop answering. The one call that mattered rings out at 3am because the last nine didn't.
Goodwill. Your responders start treating your site as the one that always wastes their time — and that shows in how fast they arrive when it is real.
What SARA does about it
When an alarm or camera event fires, SARA pulls the footage and measures what she can see against the standing orders written for that camera.
Wind in a tree, a dog, headlights sweeping a wall, rain on a lens — these do not breach a rule, so they are closed out and logged. You are never called.
A person in a restricted zone at 01:40 does breach a rule. That escalates immediately, with the clip attached so your responder knows what they are driving towards.
Your rules. Not her opinion.
The reason a false alarm gets filtered and a real one does not is that both are measured against something written down, rather than against what a tired operator thinks at 2am.
Up to 25 rules per camera
Each camera carries its own standing orders. Who may be present and when, which zones are restricted, what counts as a violation, who gets called and in what order. A loading bay's rules are not a customer entrance's rules.
Applied identically, every time
SARA has no opinion to apply. The same circumstances produce the same outcome on a Monday morning and at the end of a Friday night — which also means a rule that is wrong is easy to spot and fix.
Written with you, changed with you
Built before go-live by people who know the site, and updated when your operation changes: a new shift pattern, a new contractor, a zone repurposed.
Is Lite enough, or do you need Alive?
Both run on SARA and both act on your written rules. The honest answer depends on when your losses actually happen.
Kevlar Lite is right when…
- You have a working alarm system that reliably triggers on intrusion
- Your risk is after hours, when the site is empty and armed
- False alarms are the pain you actually feel each month
- You want the cost of monitoring closer to R350 per camera
- One call to one person is enough — you have someone who reliably answers
Step up to Alive when…
- Loss happens during trading hours, when nothing is armed to trip
- You are losing to slow theft or procedural drift that no sensor sees
- Seconds matter, and you want three responders called at the same instant rather than one person told
- You want the option of on-site intervention through the SARA Edge add-on
- Your alarm system is unreliable, or there isn't one
Questions, answered straight.
What does Kevlar Lite cost?
R350 per camera per month, excluding VAT. Your site needs stable internet and backup power. Armed response is not included — Kevlar calls your nominated responders.
How is Lite different from Kevlar Alive?
Lite is event-triggered: SARA assesses when your alarm or camera event fires. Alive is continuous: SARA watches every feed the whole contracted window, catching things that never trip a sensor at all. Lite escalates on a single call to your nominated number, then stands that camera down from calling for two minutes so you are not rung repeatedly about one incident — while still watching and logging throughout. Alive places three calls simultaneously to three separate responders. Lite is R350 per camera, Alive is R550.
Does a person verify the alarm before I am called?
No. SARA measures the event against the standing orders written for that camera and escalates on that basis, which is why it happens in seconds rather than minutes. Humans govern rather than operate: they write the rules with you before go-live, and every incident report is checked by a person before it is issued.
How does SARA know a false alarm from a real one?
By measuring what she can see against your written rules for that camera. Wind, animals, headlights and weather do not breach a rule, so they are closed out and logged without calling you. A person in a restricted zone outside permitted hours does breach a rule, so it escalates immediately with the clip attached.
Do I still get told about the events that were filtered out?
Yes. Dismissed events are logged with the reason they were closed out, so you can see how much noise was absorbed — and so any pattern remains visible if it later turns out to matter.
Will Kevlar Lite work with my existing cameras and alarm?
In most cases yes — Lite is designed to run on the CCTV and alarm system you already have, with no rip-and-replace. A short assessment confirms compatibility, the bandwidth needed, and which cameras are worth including.
What happens if nobody answers the escalation call?
Lite places one call to your nominated number. It does not work down a list, so Lite suits sites where one person reliably answers. If you need three responders reached at the same instant — or cannot rely on one number being picked up at 3am — that is Kevlar Alive rather than Lite.
Why does the camera stop calling for two minutes?
So that one incident does not become fifteen phone calls. After an escalation, that camera stands down from calling for two minutes — but SARA keeps watching it and keeps logging throughout. Nothing is missed or unrecorded; you are simply not rung repeatedly about the same event. If the camera triggers a fresh event after the stand-down, she calls again.