What is AI security monitoring?
AI security monitoring is a layer that inspects stills from your existing CCTV cameras, confirms whether a person or vehicle is genuinely present, and notifies your nominated contacts by SMS, phone call and email when it is. Motion triggers that turn out to be animals, weather or shadows are filtered before anyone is disturbed.
Most sites already have cameras. What they usually lack is anything reading the footage while the site is empty. Recording gives you evidence after the fact. An on-camera motion trigger gives you an alert every time the light changes. Intrusion Detection sits between the two: it looks at what the camera actually captured, decides whether a person or vehicle is there, and only then starts the notification chain.
The product works on stills forwarded from the cameras and NVR already on the wall, via standard image upload (SFTP or FTP). There is no new hardware to buy and no rip-and-replace. Vael runs against common brands including Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Bosch, Hanwha Vision, Uniview, Honeywell, Avigilon and Pelco.
From camera event to alert
- Camera event. Your existing camera or NVR forwards event images for verification.
- Contextual AI verification. Vael checks whether the imagery shows relevant person or vehicle activity, helping distinguish intrusions from shadows, wildlife, rain and moving foliage.
- Notification. A confirmed event triggers an automated phone call, SMS and email carrying the triggering image and a timestamp. Every event is logged with its verdict, which gives you a record your insurer can read.
Because the filtering happens without a person in the middle, verified events reach your contacts within seconds of detection, subject to network conditions.
What Intrusion Detection detects
Intrusion & person detection
Confirms a real person entering the site or crossing a perimeter, so intrusions escalate and passing wildlife does not.
Vehicle detection
Identifies cars, trucks and machinery entering yards, car parks and restricted areas, day or night.
After-hours activity
Monitors for relevant person and vehicle activity during the hours your site should be empty.
Nuisance filtering
Birds, possums, insects, spider webs, rain, wind, headlight sweep and lighting changes are recognised and discarded.
Automated notification
Phone call, SMS and email to the contacts you nominate, with a time-limited link to the triggering image.
Event record
Every event keeps its image, timestamp and verdict, so the history stands up when an insurer or a client asks.
These are features of one product rather than six things to buy. Nuisance filtering and automated notification are how Intrusion Detection works, not separate line items on a quote.
Where it earns its place
The sites that benefit most are the ones that sit unattended for long stretches and generate the most noise while they do: construction sites overnight, plant and equipment yards, warehouse and logistics perimeters, remote and solar installations hours from anyone, and vehicle and stock yards on open lots. In each case a guard is either impractical or expensive, and the camera network is already in place.
Multi-site operators have a second problem on top of that: consistency. One escalation chain per site, per region or per portfolio keeps a growing estate manageable without adding headcount for each new location.
What false alarms actually cost
Every unverified activation costs somebody. A guard callout fee for a shadow. An operator's attention while a genuine event waits in the queue. An owner woken at 3am for the fourth time this month, who then stops answering. Australian research from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows most council CCTV systems are only passively monitored, which is the same gap on a larger scale.
Contextual AI verification helps reduce nuisance alerts while keeping relevant person and vehicle activity visible to your team. In Vael deployments this filters the large majority of false alarms, typically over 90%. Results depend on camera quality, placement, lighting and site conditions. No system removes every false alarm or detects every event.
Coverage and pricing
Intrusion Detection is the base plan on every site. You choose how many hours it covers, and everything is quoted per site rather than per camera.
- Night Watch · after-hours, weekends and public holidays, from $99 AUD per site per month.
- Full Watch · around the clock, from $190 AUD per site per month.
- Site Network · mixed coverage across multiple sites, scoped per portfolio.
- Add-on products · Fire & Smoke Detection and Gate Watching, added to any plan and quoted per site.
See the full breakdown, including a savings calculator, on the pricing page.
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If you are still weighing options, our guides cover the common causes of remote CCTV false alarms and the AI fixes for each, Calipsa alternatives for Australian operations, and how back to base monitoring compares with AI CCTV monitoring in practice. New to the category? Start with what AI CCTV is. Running building sites? See our guide to construction site security cameras and what actually stops theft.