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The Full Contractor Spec

Cameras That Think. Footage That Pays You Back.

The deep spec behind every TSS job site build. Self-contained Smart Box units that drop on a raw site in under three hours. On-site video analytics that tell a person from a deer before your phone ever buzzes. Job-site time-lapse compiled from the same cameras. Solar or shore power. Cellular or satellite. NDAA Section 889 compliant on every build.

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See it in action

Mobile surveillance for construction sites.

Autonomous. Solar-powered. Cellular-connected. 24/7 AI surveillance that classifies the threat and sends the alert, with strobe and two-way audio deterrence built in. The same system documents the build, validates crew hours and safety protocol, and produces footage you can put in front of an owner or a lender.

Contractors & GCs

That trailer is everything you've built.

Your tools. Your livelihood. Your whole operation sits on that trailer. Every night it parks unattended it is exposed, and insurance does not cover the downtime when your tools walk. We do something better. We make your trailer a target that fights back.

The tools themselves

$50K to $150K in cordless platforms, layout equipment, and the specialty gear that never shows up at a pawn shop because it is on a truck to another state by morning.

The crew downtime

Five guys on payroll with nothing to run. A week of lost production while you replace a truck's worth of tools and wait on a claims adjuster.

The insurance fallout

One claim at renewal is one premium hike away from rewriting your year's budget. Carriers reward monitored mobile assets with discounts and unmonitored ones with surcharges.

The next job

The GC who watched your trailer get hit is the GC who calls a different sub next quarter. Active deterrence works as a reference, too.

On-site analytics

The camera decides before your phone rings.

Motion detection is the reason your last camera system got ignored. Wind moves a tarp, a raccoon crosses the pad, and by week three your superintendent has muted the app. Analytics running on the camera itself fixes that, and it is the single feature that decides whether a job site system gets used or gets turned off.

Object classification at the edgeThe camera decides whether it is looking at a person, a vehicle, or an animal before it sends anything. Deer, dogs, and blowing debris generate no alert. A person on the pad at 1am generates one immediately.
Line crossing and intrusion zonesYou draw the boundary. The fence line, the trailer apron, the material stack, the gate. Crossing it in the wrong direction after hours is what fires the alert, not movement anywhere in frame.
Loitering and dwell detectionSomeone standing at the trailer door for thirty seconds is a different event than someone walking past it. The system knows the difference and escalates accordingly.
License plate capture at the gateA camera on the site entrance logs plates in and out. When something goes missing overnight you hand the investigator a list instead of a shrug, and you can whitelist your own crew and delivery vehicles so they never trigger anything.
Smart search after the factInstead of scrubbing eleven hours of night footage, search by person, vehicle, color, or direction of travel. Finding the clip that matters takes seconds. That is the difference between a usable system and an archive nobody opens.
Automated deterrence, no human requiredClassification triggers response on its own. Strobe fires, the speaker calls out, and the alert lands on your phone at the same moment. Most attempts end at the sound of a voice, which is the outcome that protects your schedule instead of just documenting the loss.

Because it runs on the camera and not in a distant data center, it keeps working when the data connection drops, and it does not burn a cellular plan streaming video somewhere else to be analyzed. On a rural site with a thin signal, that is the whole ballgame.

The math

Do the math on rental surveillance.

Most construction projects run 6 to 12 months. Even at the cheapest rental rate, a single project costs more in rent than owning a system outright. Then you keep it for every job after.

Compare
Rental Trailer
Own It (OSC)
Monthly
About $1,300, lowest tier
$0 after install
6-month project
About $7,800 in rent
One install, often less than a season of rent
1 year
About $15,600 in rent
You own it, no monthly bill
3 years
About $46,800 in rent
Same system, still zero rent
5 years
About $78,000 in rent
Years of coverage, nothing paid to rent
When the job ends
Coverage stops, you own nothing
Redeploys to the next job

Run five projects at once and the rental column multiplies by five. The owned column does not. That is the argument, and it gets stronger every job you add.

What gets installed

The system built for your trailer.

Every spec tuned to the trailer, the job profile, and the way your crew actually uses it. No generic rental kit. No weekend DIY project.

4K Cameras with Active DeterrenceFull-color night vision, strobe, and audio callout. Not just recording, actively scaring them off. 4K matters because it survives the crop an adjuster or an attorney will ask for.
On-Site Video AnalyticsPerson, vehicle, and animal classification at the camera. Alerts that mean something. Full analytics detail above.
Satellite and Cellular ConnectivityRural job site? No cell service? Still covered. Dual-path means the alert reaches you regardless of where the site sits.
Onboard Power HubGrid or off-grid. Lithium battery, solar recovery, and an AC charging port. Pulls shore power where it is available, runs on battery and solar where it is not.
Zero-Hole MountingNo new roof penetrations wherever the build allows. Any unavoidable pass-through is sealed to factory standards. Trailer warranty and resale protected.
NDAA 889 Compliant HardwareZero prohibited components. Cleared for federal, military, municipal, and public-property job sites where non-compliant cameras disqualify you or force a replacement mid-project.
Insurance-Grade MonitoringOptional 24/7 monitored response through UL-listed central station. Carrier-recognized discount eligibility.
Real Warranty, Real SupportMulti-year warranty. Local crew. Call the same number that installed it, and get somebody who knows your site.
Job-site time-lapse

Proof of the build, not just protection of the tools.

The cameras protecting your trailer are already pointed at the work. Compiled, they become a project record that costs you nothing extra in hardware, because the hardware is already on site doing its other job.

How capture worksCameras pull a still on a schedule, typically every 10 to 15 minutes during working hours. Frames land automatically. Nobody on your crew touches a camera, remembers to start a recorder, or drives out to swap an SD card.
How you get itCompiled into a finished video and delivered as a link you can forward. Pick your cadence: a rolling monthly update, a milestone cut at each phase, or a single hero edit at closeout. Raw frames available if your marketing team wants to cut their own.
Owner and lender reportingA thirty-second clip answers the progress question better than eight photos and a paragraph. Draw requests move faster when the record is visual and dated.
Delay and defect disputesWhen a claim shows up eighteen months after closeout, you hand over a dated visual record instead of arguing from memory and a dog-eared daily log. This is the use case nobody thinks about until they need it.
Safety and sequencing reviewWatch a week compress into forty seconds and the bottleneck is obvious. Crews standing around waiting on a lift, material staged in the wrong place, a trade tripping over another trade.
Marketing you didn't have to shootThe finished reel outperforms any still photo in a proposal, on your site, or in a pitch to the next owner. It is the cheapest business development asset on the job, and it was a byproduct.
No trailer? No problem.

The Smart Box. Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Not every site has a trailer worth mounting to. Not every job needs a full permanent build. The Smart Box is a self-contained security unit holding cameras, power, storage, and connectivity in one enclosure. It drops on any site and powers up the same day. No electrician, no tower, no concrete base, no rental company.

Deploys in under 3 hoursOne crew, one unit. Set it, aim it, commission it, it runs. Compare that to the lead time on a rental delivery window and the coordination it takes to place one.
Solar or shore powerAC or DC compatible. Runs fully off-grid on solar with battery backup, or plugs into available site power. Either way, day one, including through a weekend with no sun.
4K active deterrenceThe same camera platform as the permanent install. Full-color night vision, strobe, and audio callout. No downgrade because it is the portable option.
Same on-site analyticsPerson, vehicle, and animal classification, intrusion zones, and plate capture run on the Smart Box exactly as they do on a trailer build. It is not a dumber product.
Cellular and satellite connectivityWorks where there is no WiFi and no cell service. The alert reaches you regardless of where the site sits on the map.
NDAA Section 889 compliantCleared for federal, military, municipal, and public-property sites. Zero prohibited hardware, standard on every unit, documented in the handover package.

When the Smart Box is the right call

Before the trailer lands

Excavation and foundation is the phase with the most exposed equipment and the least protection, and it is the phase that happens before your trailer shows up. A Smart Box covers the gap and moves onto the next site when the trailer arrives.

Sites that never get a trailer

Roadwork, utility corridors, solar and tower sites, remote staging yards, parking structures. Nothing to mount to and nothing to plug into. This is what the unit was built for.

The corner the trailer can't see

A second unit covering a laydown yard, a rear gate, or a material stack three hundred feet from the trailer. Cheaper than running conduit and easier than arguing with the sight lines you actually have.

Proving it out before you commit

Rent one for a job, watch what it catches, then decide whether to standardize across your fleet of trailers. We would rather you buy the second one because the first one earned it.

Two ways to run it

Rent for a job. Own it for years.

Short job, one-off site, or just testing the waters: rent it. Ongoing work and multiple projects a year: own it outright and redeploy it for years with nothing going to rent.

Same crew installs, monitors, and supports it either way. Same phone number. We deploy it, set it up, and retrieve it. You watch the footage.

Get a Smart Box quote
Rent itShort-term deployment, no long-term commitment. Roughly half what the national surveillance trailer operators charge per month.
Own itOne purchase. Redeploy it job after job for years. No monthly bleed, no rental math eating your margin.
Questions

Smart Box, time-lapse, and analytics, answered.

What is on-site video analytics and how does it stop false alarms on a construction site?

On-site analytics means the classification happens in the camera itself rather than in a distant data center. Before anything is sent, the camera decides whether it is looking at a person, a vehicle, or an animal, and whether that object crossed a line or lingered in a zone you drew. A deer at the fence generates nothing. A person standing at the trailer door for thirty seconds after hours triggers strobe, audio callout, and a push alert. Because it runs at the edge, it still works when the data connection drops, and it does not burn cellular data streaming video to be analyzed elsewhere.

Can the same cameras produce a construction time-lapse, and how do I get the footage?

Yes. The cameras securing the site capture stills on a schedule you set, typically every 10 to 15 minutes during working hours. Those frames are compiled into a finished video. You choose the cadence: a rolling monthly update for owner and lender reporting, a milestone cut at each major phase, or a single hero edit at closeout. Delivery is a link you can forward. Raw frames are available on request if your marketing team wants to cut their own.

What is the Smart Box and when do I use it instead of a trailer install?

The Smart Box is a self-contained unit holding cameras, power, storage, and connectivity in one enclosure. Use it when there is no trailer on site yet, when the site will never have one, when you need coverage during the excavation and foundation phase before the trailer lands, or when you want a second set of eyes on a laydown yard or a far corner the trailer cameras cannot reach. It deploys in under three hours with no electrician and no concrete base. A permanent trailer install is the better long-term value once you have a trailer you keep.

Are your construction site cameras NDAA Section 889 compliant?

Yes. Every system we install is NDAA Section 889 compliant with zero prohibited hardware. That matters on federal, military, municipal, and public-property job sites across Nebraska and Iowa, where non-compliant cameras can disqualify you from the work or force a mid-project replacement at your cost. Compliance is standard on every build, not an upcharge, and we document it in the handover package so you can hand it straight to the owner.

How many cameras does a construction site actually need?

It depends on sight lines, not acreage. Most job sites are covered by four to eight cameras: trailer doors and gang box approach, the laydown yard, the site entrance for vehicle and plate capture, and one elevated wide view for time-lapse and general situational awareness. A tight urban infill site may need three. A sprawling site with multiple access points and staged material may need twelve. We walk it and tell you which, and we tell you when you are buying cameras you do not need.

Can I view the job site from my phone and give the owner access?

Yes. Live view and recorded playback run on your phone or a browser. Access is by user account with permissions, so your superintendent can see everything, a foreman can see only his area, and an owner or lender can be given view-only access to a single camera or the time-lapse feed without touching your recordings. Accounts are added and revoked by you, which matters when a sub rolls off the job.

Tell us about your trailer.

We come back with a scoped proposal, trailer-specific and site-specific, not a brochure price.

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