Does it integrate with my access-control system or intercom?

No. Gate Watching does not connect to access-control panels, intercoms, boom gate controllers or card readers, and it does not check credentials. If you need the gate itself to respond to something, that is an access-control job for your installer, and Vael runs alongside it.

Does it read number plates?

No. Gate Watching does not match number plates against a permit list. Rules must describe something visible in the frame, such as a vehicle waiting at the gate or the gate being open at a particular hour.

What kind of gate rules can be configured?

Rules that describe something the camera can see. Examples in use include alerting if the gate is open after 6pm on a weekday, if a vehicle waits at the gate for more than two minutes, or if the gate is still open thirty minutes after the last vehicle leaves.

Do I need a new camera at the gate?

Usually not. Gate Watching is scoped on the camera that already sees the gate. What matters is the angle, the distance to the gate and what the lighting does at the hours your rule applies. We check all three during scoping.

How is Gate Watching priced?

It is an add-on product to any Intrusion Detection plan and quoted per site, never per camera. The number of gates, the camera angles available and the amount of tuning your traffic pattern needs all feed into the quote.

Gate Watching: Camera-Based Gate Activity Alerts

Q: Does Vael open or close my gate?

No. Vael analyses your gate on camera and alerts on the rules configured for your site. It does not open gates and does not integrate with access-control hardware. There is no control path from Vael to any equipment on your site.

What is gate watching?

Gate Watching monitors activity using the camera that already sees your gate. Vael alerts on gate activity according to the rules configured for your site. It does not open gates and does not integrate with access-control hardware. Alerts arrive by SMS, phone call and email.

The gate is usually the weakest point in an otherwise sound fence, and most of what goes wrong there is procedural rather than criminal. A gate left open after the last truck leaves. A contractor who props it for convenience at 6am. A vehicle idling outside for ten minutes at a time of night when nothing should be arriving. None of those trip an intrusion alarm, because nobody has climbed anything.

What a gate rule looks like

Tell us which gate activity matters to your team. We configure the monitoring for your site and check what the camera can reliably show. Typical rules on live sites include:

Alert if the gate is open after 6pm on a weekday.
Alert if a vehicle waits at the gate for more than two minutes.
Alert if the gate is still open thirty minutes after the last vehicle leaves.
Alert if a person is at the gate outside delivery hours.
Alert if a truck enters the gate on a Sunday.

Rules that describe something visible in the frame work. Rules that depend on information the camera does not have do not: whether that particular ute is authorised, whether the driver has a permit, or what a number plate says against a list. If a rule cannot be answered from the image, we say so during scoping instead of accepting it and hoping.

How monitoring is configured

We scope Gate Watching around your camera view and site requirements: the angle, the distance to the gate, the lighting during monitoring hours and the routine activity that should not trigger an alert. We check the configuration against imagery from your own site before it goes live.

Once live, a confirmed match runs the same notification chain as every other Vael alert: an automated phone call, SMS and email to your nominated contacts, carrying the image that triggered it and a timestamp. The event is logged with its verdict, so a pattern of gates left open is something you can show someone rather than something you suspect.

What Gate Watching does not do

Worth being blunt, because the name invites the assumption. Gate Watching does not open, close or lock a gate. It does not connect to your access-control panel, intercom, boom gate controller or card reader. It does not check credentials, and it does not match number plates against a permit list. There is no control path from Vael to any hardware on your site.

The product is a set of eyes and a notification, and that is the whole of it. If you need a gate to physically respond to something, that is an access-control job for your installer, and Vael sits alongside it rather than inside it.

Where a gate rule earns its place

Gate discipline tends to matter most where an insurer or a head contractor has written it into the conditions: equipment and plant hire yards, depots taking after-hours deliveries, construction sites with a single controlled entry, and any yard where the fence is sound and the gate is the only real opening. In each case the value is not catching an intruder, it is knowing within minutes that the site has been left open, while somebody is still close enough to do something about it.

How it is priced

Gate Watching is an add-on product to any Intrusion Detection plan, quoted per site. Scoping is what determines the price: the number of gates, the camera angles available and how much tuning your particular traffic pattern needs.

Base plan required · Night Watch from $99 AUD per site per month, or Full Watch from $190 AUD per site per month.
Gate Watching · added to either plan, quoted per site after scoping.
Multi-site portfolios · scoped across the network rather than site by site.

Full details are on the pricing page.

Tell us what matters at your gate

Tell us what should never happen at your gate and which camera sees it. We will tell you whether it is detectable from that angle before quoting.

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