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Ividiyo is developed in Johannesburg by AD Infratech (Pty) Ltd and deployed on estates, mines, retail parks and logistics sites across the country. Every price is published in rand, including VAT.
A VMS bought in dollars or euros is a multi-year foreign-currency liability attached to a security system. The licence count is fixed, but the renewal is not: a 15% move in the rand is a 15% increase in a cost nobody budgeted for, and it arrives in a year when nothing on site changed.
Ividiyo is priced in rand because it is built in rand. Every figure on the pricing page — Free, Home at R850 a year, the Professional camera bands, Enterprise per recording server — is VAT inclusive and is what you pay. There is no import component and no exchange-rate clause.
The second half of that is the per-camera model. Most imported platforms charge a device licence for every camera and then a maintenance percentage on the total, so an estate that adds a phase adds a permanent cost. Ividiyo is priced by site camera band on Professional and by recording server on Enterprise, with every AI module included rather than sold as plug-ins.
Some of this is not a feature list so much as a response to how sites actually run.
Everything — recording, AI detection, alarms, playback, the web interface — runs on the server on site. A fibre outage costs you remote viewing and nothing else. A cloud camera system loses the recording itself.
The recorder is a Linux service that starts on boot and resumes its cameras without intervention, so a site on a UPS or a generator comes back by itself. On small sites a Raspberry Pi recorder runs for hours on a modest UPS because it draws so little.
Electric fence energisers and I/O modules raise zone alarms that arrive with the video of what tripped them, on a site map, with a procedure attached — rather than a siren and a guess.
Licence plate recognition is included rather than a plug-in, which matters on estates and logistics yards where every vehicle movement is already the thing being logged.
Footage stays on the premises, retention is enforced per camera, access is scoped by location, exports can be anonymised, and a tamper-evident audit log records who watched what.
Business-hours support is included with annual licences, with Premium 24/7 cover and a one-hour critical response available per site or per server. The people answering are in the same time zone as the site.
Residential estates use it for perimeter detection, plate recognition at the gates and video-verified fence alarms that reach the guard house with footage attached. Mining operations run it across shafts and surface sites where the camera count is in the hundreds and the conditions are hard on everything. Retail and commercial sites use heatmaps, people counting and appearance search across multiple branches under one management interface. Smallholdings and homes run the same software on a Raspberry Pi.
The architecture is the same at every size, which is the point: a site that starts on one server and grows to five does not change products, it adds recorders.
The questions worth asking us, with honest answers already attached.
Yes. It is designed and built in Johannesburg by AD Infratech (Pty) Ltd, supported from here, and priced in rand including VAT. Ividiyo is the product name; AD Infratech is the company that makes it.
Yes. Every figure on the pricing page already includes VAT, so the number you see is the number on the invoice. That is deliberately different from imported platforms, where quoted list prices are usually exclusive and in a foreign currency.
That is one of the reasons it is self-hosted. Recording, detection and alarms run on the server on site, so losing the line costs you remote viewing only. The services start on boot and resume automatically after a power event, and a Raspberry Pi recorder on a small site runs for hours on a modest UPS.
Yes. Energiser and I/O module inputs raise zone alarms that arrive attached to the video of what caused them, placed on a site map, with a response procedure the operator works through. That turns a fence alarm from a siren into something an operator can verify before anyone is dispatched.
Yes, and we would rather you used one. Most sites are installed and maintained by a security integrator, with us behind them. On Enterprise deployments we do on-site installation and commissioning ourselves. If you are an integrator wanting to carry the product, get in touch.
The Free tier runs up to 10 cameras with live view, recording, playback and clip export — no licence key, no time limit, no card. Point it at the cameras you already own and see what it does before anything changes.
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