Ividiyo is enterprise AI video surveillance for IP cameras — self-hosted, zero per-camera licensing. Built for scale.
The Platform
Live monitoring, AI detection, forensic search, and response, in one self-hosted system.
WebRTC streaming straight from your servers — no plugins, no lag. Grids up to 8×8, saved views, fullscreen walls, PTZ control, and instant motion badges.
GPU-accelerated detection of people, vehicles, animals, and 80+ object classes — with per-zone class filtering so a delivery gate and a perimeter fence each watch for the right things.
Six ways to search days of footage: describe what you're looking for in plain language, upload a reference photo, or search by plate, face, colour, or motion in a specific area of the frame.
Scrub a colour-coded timeline where every person, vehicle, and motion event is marked. Jump to the moment, export the clip, and let the alarm manager walk your team through the response.
Everything included
Feature availability depends on your plan and add-ons; see pricing for what each tier includes.
Runs on your hardware
The same software scales from a single-board computer at home to multi-server estates — you only change the hardware.
Ideal for homes and small sites. Needs two add-ons: a Hailo AI accelerator for the AI features, and an M.2 HAT with an NVMe SSD for recordings.
One off-the-shelf box runs recording, AI, and analytics for an entire property. An NVIDIA GPU powers the AI features — a single mid-range card handles every camera on site.
Recording servers scale horizontally under one management plane — add a server, assign cameras, done. Built for estates, campuses, and multi-branch operations.
Built for
Plate recognition at the gate, blacklist alerts before the boom lifts, perimeter zones that ignore wildlife but flag people — at 500-camera estate scale.
Key features: LPR + blacklist, perimeter zones, alarm SOPs for the control room, multi-server recording
After-hours intrusion alarms, activity heatmaps of customer flow, and instant forensic search when something goes missing — across every branch.
Key features: heatmaps, appearance search, multi-site console, role-based access
Track vehicles through the yard by plate, watch loading bays with delivery zones, and keep footage on-premises where your compliance team needs it.
Key features: number-plate search, PTZ control, delivery zones, self-hosted retention
A Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo AI HAT and NVMe storage runs full AI detection for the whole property. Watch from your phone anywhere — footage never leaves your house.
Key features: Pi 5 support, iOS app, E2E-encrypted remote access, free tier
Getting started
No consultants, no certification courses. A guided installer takes you from bare hardware to live cameras.
Run the web installer on a Pi, workstation, or server. It sets up the database, services, and storage for you.
ONVIF autodiscovery finds cameras on your network — add them with a click, streams and recording start immediately.
Link your cloud account and open the mobile app — remote access connects end-to-end encrypted, no port forwarding.
Works with the cameras you already own
Any ONVIF or RTSP IP camera — Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, Axis, UniFi, Reolink, and hundreds more. No proprietary hardware, no camera lock-in.
Privacy by architecture
Ividiyo is fully self-hosted: video is recorded, analysed, and stored on your own hardware. There is no cloud upload, no third-party processing, and no vendor with a copy of your footage.
All AI processing runs on your own servers. The system works fully offline — internet is optional, not required.
Remote viewing is end-to-end encrypted (256-bit) and connects peer-to-peer. Even our relay can't see your video.
Privacy-mask zones exclude neighbours and public space from recording, and role-based access controls who sees which cameras.
Why Ividiyo
What sets us apart from traditional monitoring vendors.
No per-camera fees. Simple annual plans based on deployment size. 75% cheaper than the competition.
Proven in production across multiple sites with distributed recording servers. Scales to 500+ cameras and beyond.
Your data stays on your servers. Full control, no cloud dependency, no monthly subscriptions.
New — Ividiyo Mobile
Watch live, review footage, and stay on top of AI detections from anywhere — right from your phone.
Encrypted, peer-to-peer video straight to your phone — even on mobile data. No port-forwarding, and an automatic secure relay when a direct link isn’t possible.
See every person, vehicle and detection as it happens, grouped by day. Tap any event to jump straight to the recording of that moment.
Scrub a smooth timeline, filter events by type, and pinch-to-zoom event images to catch the detail that matters.
Available on iOS — Android coming soon. Your footage stays on your own servers.
Smart home ready
Install the Ividiyo integration from HACS and every camera, motion sensor, and AI detection becomes a Home Assistant entity — ready for dashboards and automations.
Live camera feeds and snapshots as native entities
Motion and zone-occupancy binary sensors per camera
AI detection and licence-plate events for automations — open the gate on a known plate
Custom Lovelace cards: camera wall, event feed, and status bar
Browse and play event clips in the HA media browser
PTZ, clip export, and alarm acknowledge as HA services
See it in action
Real screenshots from a live 160-camera deployment.
Live View — multi-camera grid with WebRTC streaming
AI Detection — real-time object detection with bounding boxes
Dashboard — customisable widgets with live stats
Events — AI-detected event log with thumbnails and filtering
Heatmap — per-class activity analytics overlay
Video Synopsis — hours of footage condensed into minutes
Motion Search — draw an area, find every movement in it
Remote Access — E2E-encrypted, with per-device revocation
Pricing
No per-camera fees. No hidden costs. Start free and upgrade when you need more.
Add-On Modules
Optional add-ons you enable only if you need them. Every AI capability is off by default and switched on per camera by you. Ividiyo is fully self-hosted — all processing runs on your own hardware, and no video ever leaves your premises.
Optional, per-camera detection of people, vehicles, and objects on your own GPU — off by default. Per-zone class filtering, heatmaps, live overlay when you enable it.
Read plates from any camera. Watchlist matching, visitor management, stolen vehicle database integration.
Connect Impro, Gallagher, Paxton, or generic systems. Door-camera linking, access events, mustering.
AI-powered face and plate redaction for POPI/GDPR compliance. Export anonymised clips for third parties.
Search your own recordings in plain language — e.g. "white truck" — instead of scrubbing hours of footage. Optional; runs entirely on your hardware.
Live view, playback, and push notifications on iOS and Android. Monitor your site from anywhere.
Comparison
300+ cameras with AI detection and LPR
Trusted by
We evaluated Milestone and several other platforms before choosing Ividiyo. The cost difference was staggering — we deployed 350 cameras with AI detection across our infrastructure for a fraction of what a single competitor quoted us for cameras alone. The system has been running in production for months without a hiccup, and the AI detection picks up things our operators would have missed. It's not just a budget alternative — it genuinely outperforms what we had before.
In mining, downtime means lost production. We needed a surveillance system that could handle harsh environments across multiple shafts and surface operations — over 500 cameras, and it had to be reliable. Ividiyo gave us the scale without the licensing nightmare. The AI detection has already caught unauthorised access attempts that would have gone unnoticed, and the alarm system with Telegram notifications means our security team responds in seconds, not minutes.
FAQ
Any IP camera that speaks ONVIF or RTSP — which covers virtually every brand: Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, Axis, UniFi Protect, Reolink, and hundreds more. There's no camera licensing and no approved-hardware list.
No. Recording, AI detection, playback, and search all run locally on your hardware. Internet is only needed for remote access from outside your network and for licence activation.
A GPU or AI accelerator: an NVIDIA GPU on servers (one mid-range card handles 150+ cameras), or a Hailo AI HAT on a Raspberry Pi 5. Recording and playback work fine without one — you can add AI later.
On your own hardware — local SSDs for recent footage, with optional NAS pools for long-term retention. Nothing is uploaded to any cloud, and remote viewing is end-to-end encrypted.
Yes — the Free tier runs up to 10 cameras with live view, recording, playback, and clip export. Paid tiers and add-ons unlock the AI features, and your recordings and settings carry over untouched.
Cloud systems charge per camera per month and store your footage on their servers. Ividiyo is a one-time self-hosted install with simple annual plans — your footage stays on site, your costs don't scale with camera count, and the system keeps working if your internet doesn't.
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Careers
We're growing and looking for talented people to help us build the future of intelligent monitoring.
We're looking for a driven, self-directed Sales Executive to grow Ividiyo, our AI-powered video management system (VMS), across South Africa. You'll build your own pipeline and own the full sales cycle — prospecting, demos, proposals, and closing — selling to residential estates, security installers, retailers, and industrial sites.
Basic salary + uncapped commission, with recurring revenue share on renewals
Build your own pipeline — we provide training, demos, and marketing, not lead lists
Sell a product that's 70-90% cheaper than the incumbents — an easy story to tell
3+ years B2B sales in IT, security, or surveillance, with a track record of self-sourced sales
Existing network among installers, estate managers, or facilities/IT managers a strong advantage
Contact
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