Video surveillance for homes, apartments and residential buildings
Cameras in the yard of a private house, at your apartment door or in the building entrance — with cloud recording. Recordings are not kept in the building, and you can watch them from your phone. No public IP address is needed.
Recordings can’t be stolen
Video is stored in the cloud, not on a recorder at home or in the basement that can be carried off along with the recordings.
No public IP
Cameras connect through the OwlBox device, so ordinary home internet works as it is.
From your phone
Live video and the archive open in your personal account on a phone or computer, wherever you are.
From 12 ₾ a month
The Home plan: 7 days of archive for each camera.
Private house
Cameras in the yard, at the gate and over the entrance are the simplest case. If you film your own plot for yourself, the personal data law does not apply: no signs or documents are needed.
A house usually needs two to four cameras: the entrance, the gate, the yard and the parking spot. Each camera needs about 0.5 Mbps of upload speed — any home internet can handle that. A detailed calculation is in the article how much internet a security camera uses.
To avoid bothering your neighbours, point the cameras at your own plot rather than someone else's yard or windows.
Apartment
A camera at the door of your own apartment can be installed by decision of the owner or lawful possessor — your neighbours' consent is not needed. What matters is that it looks at your door and the landing in front of it, not at your neighbours' door.
Such a camera shows who rang the bell, who picked up a parcel and what happened while you were away.
Building entrance and homeowners' association
Cameras at the entrance, on the stairs and in the shared yard require the written consent of more than half of the owners. Usually this is a short document — where the cameras are, how long recordings are kept and who views them — signed by the owners. A sign with a camera image and the responsible person's contacts goes up at the entrance.
We explain how to obtain consent and what else to consider in the article on video surveillance in residential buildings.
We'll choose cameras for the entrance and the yard, install them and connect them to the cloud. Recordings will be viewed by whoever the residents appoint as responsible.
Why the cloud, not a recorder
A recorder has two weak points. It has to be put somewhere — a cupboard, a storeroom or the basement — and all the recordings can be carried off with it. And if it breaks, the recordings are lost with it.
In the cloud, recordings are kept outside the building, in a data centre in Georgia. Even if a camera is torn down, everything it recorded stays in the archive.
How long to keep recordings
On the Home plan, the archive is kept for 7 days. For a house or an entrance this is usually enough: a theft or damage is noticed within a few days, and the right moment is easy to find.
If you need to keep recordings longer — say, the homeowners' association wants a month — a plan with a 30-day archive will do. All plans are on the pricing page.
How to connect
- You leave a request and tell us what you want to film.
- If you already have cameras, we'll check whether they work: which cameras work with the cloud is described on a separate page. If you don't, we'll choose and install them.
- We put the OwlBox device next to the router and connect the cameras to the cloud.
- Recordings are available in your personal account right away.
Cloud Storage
View PlanFrequently Asked Questions
Do I need my neighbours’ consent for a camera at my apartment door?
No. A camera at the door of your own apartment can be installed by decision of the owner or lawful possessor. What matters is that it looks at your door and the landing in front of it, not at your neighbours’ door.
What is needed to install cameras in the building entrance?
The written consent of more than half of the apartment owners. Usually a short document is drawn up on where the cameras will be and who views the recordings, and the owners sign it. A sign with the responsible person’s contacts goes up at the entrance.
Who views the recordings from the entrance?
Whoever the residents appoint as responsible for the cameras. Others turn to them when something has happened. Anyone caught on camera has the right to a copy of the recording of themselves.
Will ordinary home internet work?
Yes. No public IP address is needed — cameras connect through the OwlBox device. Each camera needs about 0.5 Mbps of upload speed.
Solutions
Video surveillance for Wildberries pickup points
OwlCam Cloud is an authorised video storage service for Wildberries. The marketplace accesses your point's cameras directly through our integration, so you never have to export, forward or approve anything yourself.
Connecting cameras without a static IP address
For the cloud to receive video, the stream has to leave your local network. That normally requires a public IP address and port forwarding to the camera. The OwlBox device removes that requirement: it sits inside the network and establishes the connection to the cloud itself.
Which cameras work with cloud video surveillance
Almost any IP camera will work. The cloud receives video over RTSP — a standard protocol supported by cameras from most manufacturers. So you usually don’t need to replace your equipment.