Your cameras. Your hardware. Your data.
Helios VMS is the video security platform that runs on your site, works with the cameras you already own, and never charges you rent for your own footage.
Cloud fees. Ever. Footage lives on your hardware.
ONVIF or RTSP camera — no vendor lock-in
On-device AI inference at the edge
Data ownership. Nothing leaves your site without you.
From detection to resolution, without leaving your building
Every stage runs on your own hardware — AI detection, alerting, deterrence, and forensics in one self-hosted system.
Inspect any frame, down to the pixel
Every detection carries its evidence: bounding boxes, per-object crops and confidence. Click any person and Helios finds every camera they were on, then plays their path across your site.
- On-frame detection overlay — people, vehicles, confidence
- Per-person visual search: "find this person everywhere"
- Similar-event matching across cameras and days
- Track view: their path on your site map, sighting by sighting
Search your footage like you'd ask a person
Helios Vision watches every camera and writes down what it sees. Type a question — get the moment. No scrubbing, no timeline archaeology.
- ●Natural-language search across every camera
- ●Cross-camera identity journeys — follow one person through the building
- ●License plate capture with watchlists
Alerts that act, not just notify
Write rules in plain English. When one matches, Helios VMS doesn't just ping your phone — it can flash strobes, sound sirens, and play a talkdown through on-site speakers.
- ●Instant in-app toasts, pop-up video, and a triage review queue
- ●Active deterrence: sirens, strobes, and automated voice-down
- ●Camera-health watchdog — know when recording stops, before it matters
Talk-downs that say what they see
Helios describes the person — what they're wearing, what they're carrying — and says it through the camera's speaker. Instead of a canned recording, they hear “you in the dark hooded jacket” and know they've been seen.
Every lens, handled — fisheye included
360° cameras aren't an afterthought. Helios VMS dewarps fisheye feeds natively — quad view, panorama, or virtual PTZ — right in the browser, with no plugin and no vendor software.
- ●WebGL dewarp: Quad, Panorama, and virtual PTZ modes
- ●One 360° camera covers what took four fixed cameras
- ●Smart layouts give fisheyes the screen space they deserve
Playback built for finding, not watching
A density-wave timeline shows you where activity happened across every camera at once. Jump to the moment, compare angles side-by-side, export evidence.
- ●Multi-camera synchronized scrubbing
- ●Case files with secure share links
- ●Full-resolution export, chain-of-custody friendly
Build the case while you watch
Flag a moment and it lands in a case with the clip, the camera and the time. Keep adding as you investigate, then export one package for the police or your insurer.
- ●Add a clip to a new or open case in two clicks
- ●Every case keeps its status and priority: open, high, closed
- ●Export and share the whole case, not a pile of files
LPR Watchlist
Plate capture on standard cameras with instant watchlist alerts — no dedicated LPR hardware required.
Grab a controller.
Drive the camera.
Pair an Xbox Wireless Controller over Bluetooth and fly any PTZ camera in Helios VMS. The stick pans and tilts, the triggers zoom, and eight buttons jump straight to saved presets.
Have one? Pair it with this device and press any button. The demo will follow it.
One system, working together
Live Wall
A full-bleed mosaic that adapts to your cameras — fisheyes included — and points you at motion the moment it happens.
See it →AI Search
Every detection described in plain English and searchable in seconds — people, vehicles, plates, journeys.
See it →Alerts & Deterrence
Plain-English rules, instant popups, and on-camera sirens, strobes, and talkdown that intervene while it's happening.
See it →Playback & Cases
Synchronized multi-camera forensics with a density timeline, case building, and secure evidence sharing.
See it →LPR Watchlist
Plate capture on standard cameras with instant watchlist alerts — no dedicated LPR hardware required.
See it →Dealer Portal
Multi-site fleet health, remote access, and per-customer isolation — every deployment one click away.
See it →Bring the cameras you already own
Helios VMS speaks ONVIF and RTSP natively. Mixed fleets are the point, not a problem — install it in front of what's already on the wall.
NDAA-compliant builds available — every reference platform can be sourced through a fully NDAA-compliant distributor.
From box to footage, before your coffee's cold.
No cloud account. No adding cameras one IP at a time. Power on the box, scan your network, and Helios brings every camera online at once — then starts recording.
Flash & power on
Write the image to the box, plug it in. It self-configures for whatever hardware it detects — a Pi with an NPU, or an x86 server with a GPU.
Scan the network
One click finds every ONVIF and RTSP camera on the LAN. Enter one shared login and they all come online together — mixed brands and all.
You're recording
Live view, 24/7 recording, and on-device AI are running. No subscription to activate, no cloud to depend on. It's yours.
Runs where the cloud can't reach
From a solar-powered pole to a rack server — the same platform, sized to the site.
Pole & trailer deployments
Runs on low-power ARM hardware with a dedicated NPU — full AI detection on solar, no trench, no cloud link required.
GPU-accelerated sites
The same platform scales onto x86 servers with hardware encode and CUDA inference for larger camera counts.
Self-configuring install
The installer probes your hardware — NPU, GPU, or CPU — and configures itself for the best this machine can do.
Buy it once. Own it forever.
Perpetual per-channel licensing — the way professional VMS has always worked. No monthly per-camera tax, ever.
- ✓Continuous + event recording, dual-stream
- ✓Multi-camera playback & density timeline
- ✓Alerts, rules, and active deterrence
- ✓Fisheye dewarp, audio, PTZ, talkdown
- ✓Works with any ONVIF/RTSP camera
Yours forever. Never expires, never phones home to keep recording.
- ✓Natural-language search across every camera
- ✓AI-described events & smart review queue
- ✓Cross-camera identity journeys
- ✓License plate capture with watchlists
- ✓Runs on-device — no cloud inference fees
Event descriptions use your own Google AI key — your data relationship, typically $1–5/mo per site.
- ✓Secure remote access from anywhere
- ✓Dealer portal: fleet health & provisioning
- ✓Software updates & new features
- ✓Priority support
Lapses gracefully: your system keeps recording and working locally. You only pause remote access and updates.
A VMS you can build a business on
No per-camera SaaS tax eating your margin. Deploy Helios VMS on hardware you sell, manage every site from one portal, and keep the recurring relationship — not the cloud vendor.
- ●Fleet health dashboard — connectivity, recording, storage per site
- ●Secure remote access to every deployment, no port forwarding
- ●Per-customer roles, channels, and capability grants
See your site through Helios VMS.
A live demo on real cameras — bring your toughest footage question and watch it get answered in seconds.