Your CCTV records crime. Sentinel Eye stops it.

Standard smart cameras detect motion and send you a push notification. From there, everything depends on you — you have to wake up, assess the live feed, make a decision, and contact armed response yourself. That process realistically takes 3–5 minutes.

Sentinel Eye doesn't wait for you. Within 1.8 seconds of confirming a human threat, it fires a verbal deterrence sequence through the camera speaker, sends you a WhatsApp alert with a photo of the event, and — on the Shield plan — dispatches your armed response automatically. No one presses anything. The intruder hears a confident response before most homeowners have even seen the alert.

A camera notification tells you something happened. Sentinel Eye responds to it.

No. Sentinel Eye is designed to work with the cameras you already own. It connects to any IP camera that supports RTSP — the standard streaming protocol used by virtually all professional security cameras installed in South Africa today. Most Hikvision, Dahua, Reolink, Uniview, and compatible brands work without any modification.

You connect your cameras yourself through the Sentinel Eye wizard — it walks you through adding any RTSP-compatible camera in minutes, with no technician required. If you run into a compatibility issue, our support team resolves it remotely. In most cases, your existing hardware connects first time.

This was a deliberate design decision: Sentinel Eye processes video locally on your property, not on remote cloud servers overseas. It does not need a stable internet connection to detect threats and fire deterrence — those happen entirely on-site.

If your cameras and network hardware are connected to a UPS, Sentinel Eye continues to protect your property normally through a load shedding slot. WhatsApp alerts and armed response dispatch require internet, which is why we recommend an LTE router with automatic failover — available at most electronics and networking retailers.

No. Sentinel Eye Shield works alongside your existing armed response subscription — it integrates with your current provider to trigger automatic dispatch when a confirmed threat is detected. You keep your existing team, your existing contract, and your existing relationship. Sentinel Eye adds the automation layer that removes the human delay in the chain.

Core is the active deterrence and alert layer. Shield adds the step that closes the loop: when a confirmed threat is detected, your armed response provider is contacted automatically — no button, no delay.

The first 250 subscribers lock in founding pricing permanently — this rate will never increase as long as their subscription stays active. Founding rates start at R149/month for 1–2 cameras (Core) or R249/month for Shield. Rates are tiered by camera count — the more cameras, the lower your per-camera rate. Estate and commercial deployments (7+ cameras) are billed per camera with volume discounts from R89/camera/month. All founding rates are locked for life.

No cancellation fee. Sentinel Eye is month-to-month — you get started through a self-service onboarding wizard at your own pace, no salesperson required. If you'd prefer professional installation over the self-service wizard, you're free to use any local CCTV installer — it's a once-off cost separate from your Sentinel Eye subscription, not an ongoing contract. We'd rather keep you because the product works.

Sentinel Eye processes all video locally on your property. Your live footage is never streamed to a remote server for analysis, and Quikle does not have access to your camera feeds. The only data that leaves your site is the event photos attached to your WhatsApp alerts and monthly report — which are sent to the contact numbers registered on your account only.

Yes — built, hosted, and supported entirely in South Africa by Quikle AI (Pty) Ltd, based in Johannesburg. Every decision — edge processing for load shedding resilience, WhatsApp as the alert channel, SA armed response integration, ZAR pricing — was made specifically for the South African property security context. This is not a US or European product adapted for a market it wasn't designed for.

Individual cameras with AI see only their own corner. They alert on what they see, in isolation. Sentinel Eagle treats every camera as a node in a shared intelligence mesh. When the gate camera detects a subject, cameras in the next zones are briefed: what to look for, which direction it moves, which behaviour pattern has been flagged. No single camera escalates alone. One sighting logs. Two or more cameras independently flagging the same subject across zone boundaries escalates to dispatch, removing the false-positive load that drives alarm fatigue on SA estates. Response leaves before the threat reaches the residential zone, not after a guard reviews footage.

Enterprise security platforms are built for generic environments. A camera covering a lobby treats every person the same, regardless of time, context or position. Sentinel Eagle applies zone-sensitive contextual reasoning. The same behaviour in the same location produces a different response at 02:00 and at 07:00. A figure on the fairway at sunrise is a golfer. At 02:34 it is an event. The system applies this automatically across the entire estate zone map from initial configuration, with no manual rule-writing per camera. That layer is calibrated for the South African estate topology: golf courses, boom gates, service entrances and domestic access patterns, which generic enterprise platforms do not model. Nothing needs re-programming when behaviour shifts seasonally or occupancy changes.