Self-hosted · Hardware-agnostic · AI on the edge

Your cameras.
Your hardware.
Your data.

Helios One 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.

NDAA-compliant hardware ONVIF & RTSP native No cloud dependency
elmonte.heliosvms.com/live
LIVE360 Warehouse
LIVEFront Door
LIVELoading Bay
LIVESales Floor
LIVESide Gate
LIVEHallway
LIVERear Lot
Person · Front Door
A man approaches the entrance — just now
$0/mo
Cloud fees. Ever. Footage lives on your hardware.
Any
ONVIF or RTSP camera — no vendor lock-in
<40ms
On-device AI inference at the edge
100%
Data ownership. Nothing leaves your site without you.
One connected platform

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.

01 — DETECT

AI that watches for you

On-device neural inference classifies people and vehicles in real time, describes every event in plain English, and tracks identities across cameras.

02 — ALERT

Know the moment it matters

Plain-English alert rules — "person on any exterior camera after 10 PM" — trigger instant notifications, pop-up video, and on-camera sirens and strobes.

03 — RESOLVE

Evidence in seconds, not hours

Ask for what you saw — "delivery van this morning" — and get the clip. Build cases, export evidence, and share securely with one link.

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
Front Door · 3:53 PM
Rear Lot · 3:51 PM
Side Gate · 3:48 PM

Alerts that act, not just notify

Write rules in plain English. When one matches, Helios One 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
Helios One alert review
Intrusion · Side Gate · CRITICAL
Person detected 11:42 PM — strobe + siren triggered
Person · Rear Exterior
A person crosses the lot toward the loading bay
Vehicle · Front ANPR
Plate 8ZKT441 — not on watchlist

Every lens, handled — fisheye included

360° cameras aren't an afterthought. Helios One 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
Cam 01
Cam 02
Cam 03

Inspect any frame, down to the pixel

Every detection carries its evidence: bounding boxes, per-object crops, and confidence scores. One click on any person launches a visual search for them across your entire archive.

  • On-frame detection overlay — people, vehicles, confidence
  • Per-person visual search: "find this person everywhere"
  • Similar-event matching across cameras and days
The platform

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.

WebRTCSub-secondMotion pulse

AI Search

Every detection described in plain English and searchable in seconds — people, vehicles, plates, journeys.

Natural languageIdentity tracking

Alerts & Deterrence

Plain-English rules, instant popups, and on-camera sirens, strobes, and talkdown that intervene while it's happening.

Rules engineActive response

Playback & Cases

Synchronized multi-camera forensics with a density timeline, case building, and secure evidence sharing.

Sync scrubExport

LPR Watchlist

Plate capture on standard cameras with instant watchlist alerts — no dedicated LPR hardware required.

ANPRWatchlists

Dealer Portal

Multi-site fleet health, remote access, and per-customer isolation — every deployment one click away.

Multi-tenantFleet health
Hardware freedom

Bring the cameras you already own

Helios One speaks ONVIF and RTSP natively. Mixed fleets are the point, not a problem — install it in front of what's already on the wall.

Milesight Uniview Hanwha Vision Luminys Amcrest Dahua + any ONVIF camera

NDAA-compliant builds available — every reference platform can be sourced with fully NDAA-compliant distributor.

Setup in minutes

From box to footage, before your coffee's cold.

No installers. 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.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Built for the edge

Runs where the cloud can't reach

From a solar-powered pole to a rack server — the same platform, sized to the site.

SOLAR / OFF-GRID

Pole & trailer deployments

Runs on low-power ARM hardware with a dedicated NPU — full AI detection on solar, no trench, no cloud link required.

ON-PREM SERVER

GPU-accelerated sites

The same platform scales onto x86 servers with hardware encode and CUDA inference for larger camera counts.

ADAPTIVE

Self-configuring install

The installer probes your hardware — NPU, GPU, or CPU — and configures itself for the best this machine can do.

Pricing

Buy it once. Own it forever.

Perpetual per-channel licensing — the way professional VMS has always worked. No monthly per-camera tax, ever.

Per channel · one time
Channel License
$149
per camera, perpetual
  • 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.
Per channel · one time
Helios Vision AI
+$79
per camera, perpetual add-on
  • 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.
Per site · yearly
Cloud & Care
$299/yr
per site — flat, any camera count
  • 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.

The Helios promise: your license never dies. If Cloud & Care lapses, your system keeps recording, keeps alerting, keeps working — on your hardware, under your control. That's what self-hosted means.

For dealers & integrators

A VMS you can build a business on

No per-camera SaaS tax eating your margin. Deploy Helios One 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
portal.heliosvms.com
El Monte HQ — 16 cameras
Healthy · recording · 7-day uptime 100%
Riverside Yard — 24 cameras
Healthy · recording · 12.4 TB free
Pomona Lot — 8 cameras
1 camera stalled — alert sent 2 min ago

See your site through Helios One

A live demo on real cameras — bring your toughest footage question and watch it get answered in seconds.