A curated, exhaustive selection of local-first hardware — chosen because you own it, your data stays home, and there are no mandatory monthly fees. Engineered for absolute data sovereignty.
Organized by architectural layer. No pricing is listed here — every deployment is designed to your specific estate and quoted after a thorough site assessment.
Every camera here streams footage locally over open standards (ONVIF/RTSP) to your own private network drive. No monthly fees, no corporate servers intercepting your private perimeter.
A 4K camera that sees in full colour after dark and zooms 5× to read a plate at the end of the drive. The built-in spotlight and siren turn it from a witness into a deterrent.
Three lenses stitched on-device for 180° panoramic viewing plus independent 360° auto-tracking.
Two lenses stitched into one seamless 180° view — covering vast areas without the blind spots of a single lens.
One ceiling camera sees a whole room — 360°, dewarped into flat views for complete coverage without blind spots.
A low-profile turret housing an F1.0 super aperture. Captures full-colour images at night without attracting spiders to IR LEDs.
The bullet variant of our ColorX night vision system. Outstanding detail in near-darkness.
Reliable 4K perimeter coverage with smart person and vehicle detection.
Pans, tilts, and zooms 16× to track and follow movement across large properties and agricultural lines.
4K optical zoom for living spaces. The lens physically rolls backward into its shell for absolute privacy when disarmed.
A slightly scaled-down variant for secondary indoor monitoring, retaining tracking and the physical privacy shutter.
Uncompromised 4K resolution over Wi-Fi 6 for detached garages or outbuildings with 12V power but no data lines.
Bright motion-activated floodlights and a 180° dual-lens camera consolidated into one security fixture.
A camera wrapped in a bright, motion-triggered floodlight — colour night video and a visible deterrent in one fixture, recording locally over your own Wi-Fi.
4K dual-lens with a 180° blind-spot-free view, requiring zero wiring.
A battery pan/tilt camera with a massive 20,000mAh battery for continuous 24/7 recording.
Works with no internet and no power — 4G cellular and solar, anywhere.
See and speak to whoever is at the door from your phone, with the live view and the recording staying entirely on your own network. No cloud subscription and no per-notification fees — wired PoE or Wi-Fi, your choice.
The cleanest local-first doorbell: one cable carries power and video, footage stays home, and there's no monthly fee to see who's at the door — ever.
A 2K doorbell that retrofits onto your existing 12-24V AC chime wiring — no new cable needed.
A sleek, monolithic dark facade with a highly deliberate 3:4 aspect ratio. PoE connection eliminates Wi-Fi jamming.
Answer the door from your phone, with footage recorded to a microSD card in the doorbell itself — optional local Apple Home storage, no subscription to see who called.
Every camera and doorbell needs somewhere to write its footage — on your property, not a server you rent by the month. These hubs and network video recorders hold days or weeks of continuous recording on drives you own, reachable only from inside your own network.
The vault every camera writes to. Sixteen PoE ports power and record up to 24 cameras over a single cable each, holding weeks of continuous 4K footage on drives in your home — reachable only from inside your own network. No cloud, no monthly fee, no one else holding the key.
The local vault for your battery and solar cameras. AES-128 encryption keeps footage secure even if the unit is stolen.
A compact, puck-style vault for smaller apartments or properties running only a few battery cameras.
For 24/7 continuous recording environments where running Ethernet cables is impossible.
Plug cameras straight in — this recorder powers and records up to twelve of them via the network.
Enterprise storage. Completely removes the PoE backplane to minimize heat, relying on external switches.
Camera-free awareness for the whole household. Advanced millimeter-wave radar senses presence and movement in a room without a single camera lens. Completely isolated from the cloud.
Radar-based presence mapping that tracks human occupancy and movement across a 10×8 meter room. It can simultaneously track up to 10 people without using a single camera lens, forming the bedrock of true, privacy-respecting awareness.
The cornerstone of a local-first smart home. Runs your automations internally and bridges your sensors to Apple Home or Home Assistant.
Replaces your front door deadbolt with secure, keyless biometric access that works flawlessly without internet.
Fingerprint, PIN, and Apple Home Key. Biometric hashes are stored entirely inside the lock handle, never in the cloud.
A compact local hub that bridges Aqara's Zigbee sensors into Apple Home, Google, and Alexa over Matter — automations keep running on-device, not in a data centre.
An indoor camera that doubles as a Zigbee hub — records locally to microSD while coordinating your Aqara sensors, so one device covers both eyes and automation.
Keyless entry by fingerprint, code, or app — biometric data stored on the lock itself, never in the cloud.
Divides a room into 30 distinct logical zones, tracking up to 5 people via a Wi-Fi connection.
Catches a leak at 0.5mm and triggers local automations (like automated shutoffs) before damage spreads.
A battery PIR that fires local automations the instant someone moves — lights, alerts, or scenes — with an adjustable detection cooldown to stretch battery life.
Reports open or closed in real time — a child home from school, a gate left ajar — and fires local scenes either way.
Entry-tier radar presence that knows whether a room is genuinely occupied — even when everyone's still — without a camera, so lighting and awareness automations don't switch off on you.
A photoelectric smoke alarm that also pushes a local alert to the family's phones — so a kitchen scare reaches someone who's out, not just an empty hallway.
Tracks temperature and humidity room by room, firing local automations — a fan, a dehumidifier, a heads-up — before a space gets uncomfortable or damp.
Turns any lamp or appliance into a locally controlled, schedulable device — and reports live energy use back to your hub.
Replaces a standard wall switch for local app- and voice-controlled lighting — no cloud account required to flip a light.
A Zigbee wall switch for direct, local control of hardwired ceiling lights, with single- or double-rocker layouts.
A stick-anywhere battery button that fires any local scene — single, double, or long press — with no wiring at all.
Local control of central heating and cooling — schedules and scenes that run on your hub, so the house is comfortable when people arrive without anything phoning home.
The foundation everything else runs on. Managed, controller-based multi-gigabit networking with the PoE power to drive your cameras over a single cable — and the segmentation to keep them isolated.
Three boxes in one: a VPN-capable gateway, an 8-port PoE+ switch to power your cameras, and a built-in Omada controller to run the whole network — the entire local core in a single unit, with nothing in the cloud.
The enterprise core. Massive 2.1 Million pps throughput and dual redundant power supplies for estates that cannot go offline.
A multi-gigabit front door. Eliminates the 1G bottleneck when moving dense 4K security streams across your network.
Twenty-four PoE+ ports for larger deployments and rack-mounted systems.
Eight PoE+ ports with a 150W budget — enough to power a small camera and AP fleet.
Eight 2.5-gigabit PoE+ ports power cameras and access points, while dual 10-gigabit uplinks feed the recorder and NAS without a bottleneck.
Ultra-thin ceiling AP providing unparalleled local bandwidth via Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 and a 2.5GbE uplink.
Bypasses plaster-and-lath Faraday cages by fitting directly into an electrical junction box near the floorboard.
A ceiling-mount Wi-Fi 6 access point that blankets a floor with fast, seamless coverage — centrally managed, powered over a single PoE cable.
The weatherproof sibling of the EAP650 — carries fast Wi-Fi 6 out to patios, yards, and shops, hardened against rain and temperature swings.
A budget-friendly outdoor access point that extends managed Wi-Fi across the property — proven, weatherproof, and easy on the install budget.
Next-generation Wi-Fi 7 for homes that want headroom — wider channels and lower latency for dense camera and device counts, fully Omada-managed.
A small, always-on hardware controller that runs your whole Omada network locally — switches, APs, and gateway from one on-site brain, no cloud login required.
When a garage, barn, gate, or back acre sits past practical cabling, a licence-free point-to-point link carries your network across the gap — no monthly cellular fees, no digging, just a clear line of sight.
Reach where the trench can't. A hyper-focused 5GHz beam carries your full network up to 15km across open ground — to a gatehouse, barn, or back acre — with no digging and no monthly cellular bill. Licence-free spectrum, clear line of sight, yours to own.
A sleek, blade-like panel that links outbuildings up to 5km away, with built-in ports to run remote cameras directly.
A highly discreet, compact rectangular bridge designed to jump secure network data to an adjacent guest cottage or structure.
Carries Wi-Fi 7 across open ground — a weatherproof outdoor access point that blankets yards, courts, and parking with fast managed wireless, or links a nearby building over the air.
Your local network core requires specialized, high-performance computing arrays to coordinate backups, orchestrate smart home data traffic, and record continuous visual intelligence feeds without relying on external cloud brokers. The same drives that archive your camera footage double as a private home for your family's photos, documents, and device backups — your own storage to keep, instead of a monthly bill to iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
The absolute baseline gold standard for secure residential data management. Powered by an enterprise AMD Ryzen processor and high-speed ECC memory, it routes local file transfers seamlessly while its cryptographic core protects data locally.
A dedicated, hardware-accelerated video server running advanced local face and threat recognition.
An architectural powerhouse designed to host containerized local logic engines via Docker.
A versatile, high-capacity tower option designed to comfortably scale as data requirements grow.
A highly reliable, compact 2-bay enclosure running standard Synology DSM data safety suites natively.
Equipped with a specialized internal hardware engine designed to handle continuous stream transcoding smoothly.
An affordable, highly responsive local storage endpoint leveraging modern, fast internal RAM systems.
Industrial enclosures are useless without high-end, heavy-duty mechanical platters and solid-state silicon engineered specifically to survive non-stop read/write cycles. We source only raw, premium non-consumer physical media modules.
Surveillance bandwidth requirements depend completely on resolution and target frame rates. To help map storage profiles, the table below establishes realistic, baseline retention estimates for continuous 24/7 recording per individual camera. Pro-tier 4K streams are calculated at the native 6144 Kbps deployment standard.
| Physical Drive Size | Standard 1080p HD Footage (Continuous 24/7 / Per Camera) |
Ultra HD 4K Footage (Continuous 24/7 / Per Camera) |
Multi-Camera Deployment Example (Real-World Retention Balance) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4TB Drive | ~90 Days | ~30 Days | Holds 12 to 14 Days of constant 4K video for a standard 3-camera system. |
| 8TB Drive | ~180 Days | ~60 Days | Holds up to 30 Days of continuous 4K footage for a balanced 4-camera setup. |
| 16TB Drive | ~360 Days | ~120 Days | Holds up to 30 Days of high-density 4K footage for a large 16-camera estate setup. |
*Note: Real-world retention will scale up significantly if smart on-edge AI tracking is configured to index "Event-Only" recordings instead of continuous 24/7 dumb-writing.
To prevent a single mechanical hardware failure from wiping out your history or blinding your system, local servers combine multiple drives into smart Redundancy Arrays. This math shows how much raw space is reserved for a data safety net versus how much actual storage translates to your system.
| Array Configuration & Layout | Raw Installed Capacity | Fault Tolerance (Hardware Safety Net) |
Actual Net Usable Space | Translated System Retention (Based on 4-Camera 4K System @ 24/7 Continuous) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Mirror (RAID 1) 2x 8TB Drives inside a 2-Bay Core (DS224+ / DXP2800) |
16TB Total | 1 Drive Failure Allowed Data is fully cloned across both platters |
8TB Net | ~30 Days of secure, mirror-protected history. Safe from a structural drive crash. |
| Balanced Parity (RAID 5 / Synology SHR) 4x 8TB Drives inside a 4-Bay Core (DS925+ / DXP4800 GT) |
32TB Total | 1 Drive Failure Allowed Rebuilds data automatically using parity blocks |
24TB Net | ~90 Days of high-capacity storage. The definitive standard for balancing safety and cost. |
| Maximum Performance (RAID 10) 4x 16TB Drives inside a high-end Multi-Bay Node |
64TB Total | Up to 2 Drives Allowed Combines striping speed with mirror safety |
32TB Net | ~120 Days of hyper-fast performance. Optimized for high-throughput multi-gigabit file servers. |
| Linear Storage Pool (Spanned / Non-RAID) 3x 16TB Drives inside an Enterprise RLN36 NVR |
48TB Total | 0 Drives Allowed No redundancy. If a single platter fails, that drive's history is lost |
48TB Net | ~180 Days of raw, unfiltered continuous recording. Sized for dedicated "dumb-writing" camera vaults. |
*Sovereignty Rule: While a dedicated security NVR (like the RLN36) maximizes raw space for camera archiving, critical personal data pools, legal records, and family photos should always be routed to a fault-tolerant RAID 1 or RAID 5 NAS server node to protect against hardware breakdown.
The standard infrastructure workhorse, optimized to hit the maximum single-drive limit of modern integrated PoE recorders.
Massive, helium-sealed mechanical drives built specifically to run in multi-bay local server environments.
Hyper-fast solid-state modules designed to eliminate network delays and handle heavy data transaction traffic instantly.
A power cut shouldn't blind your cameras, disrupt your local automations, or corrupt your storage databases. Next-generation UPS systems signal your NAS to shut down safely if the power stays out, avoiding database corruption.
Lithium-Ion technology offers 3x the lifespan of traditional lead-acid backups. The integrated Network Management Card utilizes offline SNMPv3 protocols to broadcast power loss events directly to the local NAS, triggering a graceful, automated shutdown without pinging an external server.
Line-interactive pure sine wave power that supports secure SNMP/HTTP monitoring cards for off-cloud server management.
Compact 2U protection with direct, hardwired USB shutdown signaling to translate grid events locally to connected recorders.
Premium tower backup mapping battery telemetry natively to a Synology NAS or Home Assistant server via local USB ports.
A sine-wave tower UPS sized to ride out the brown-outs and short cuts that corrupt recordings — keeps the NVR and network alive long enough to shut down cleanly.
A compact tower built with local USB and Serial ports alongside a physical SmartSlot, bypassing cloud locks entirely.
High-density protection that fits perfectly in a small network wall-rack, unlocking secure, offline SNMP monitoring.
Eliminates the need for a rack chassis while retaining full local USB and Serial shutdown commands for desktop NVRs.
A slim 1U rackmount UPS for compact setups — clean sine-wave power for a single recorder or switch where a full tower won't fit.