A small camera that goes anywhere and tells you anything.
Machaira is an outdoor, battery-powered AI camera with cellular connectivity, integrated solar and generative-AI scene understanding. Deploy it once. Ask it anything. Act on what it sees.
Three things you stop worrying about.
Most field camera systems send you everything and leave you to sort it out. Machaira doesn't, because the AI does the looking.
Eyes where there is no power, no network, no infrastructure
Strap it to a post, a tree or a fence. Press the button. It appears in the platform within minutes. Cellular LTE-M, internal battery and an integrated solar panel mean nothing else is needed on site.
Only what matters, and the reason why
Detection starts on the camera: a PIR sensor wakes it, radar confirms distance and size, and edge AI decides what is worth sending before any battery is spent. In the cloud each image is judged against criteria you wrote in plain English and quantified, not just flagged.
Not being in the business of running cameras
SIMs, data, firmware updates, asset tracking and bulk configuration are part of the service. Deploying the thousandth camera is no harder than the first.
From pixel to action. Four steps, zero effort.
The camera is the edge. Everything else runs in the cloud. You see what matters and nothing else.
- 01
Trigger
PIR wakes the camera. Radar takes a second look, reporting distance and size, so a bird or a blowing branch never reaches the imager. Scheduled captures run alongside.
- 02
Capture and qualify
The camera takes a frame, day or night, and on-device AI drops anything that plainly is not what you asked about. Battery, light and temperature are tagged onto the image.
- 03
Analyse in the cloud
Encrypted upload over cellular. A vision-language model reads the image against your criteria and returns a description, structured tags and a quantified answer.
- 04
Alert and report
Your rules match. The right person gets a push, SMS, email or webhook with the image and a readable account of what triggered it. Everything else becomes searchable history and time-series data.
See it on your problem, then shape the camera to it.
Pick a scenario, watch the camera decide
Twenty scenarios across seven sectors. Step through the four states of the pipeline on a single fixed scene, see how the camera and rules would be set up, and the alert you would receive.
Open the explorer →Camera configuratorTrade battery life against response, night and size
Change the battery, solar, imager, illumination, radar, edge AI and comms, then the wake sources, schedules and event rates. A monthly energy model tells you how long it lasts and how fast it answers.
Open the configurator →Six sectors. One camera.
Ask it the right question, and Machaira fits wherever eyes on a remote scene would help.
Environmental
- Fire, flood and effluent detection
- Fly-tipping, with vehicle and plate
- Illegal logging and unauthorised access
Rural and wildlife
- Sheep rustling and dog worrying
- Farm machinery theft
- Wildlife monitoring and poacher alerts
Security and facilities
- Break-ins, fighting, vandalism
- Vacant premises and remote gates
- High-value plant protection
Infrastructure
- Rail cable theft
- Substations and pumping stations
- Reservoir and watercourse levels
Aviation and site safety
- Unattended aircraft
- Exclusion zone breaches
- PPE compliance
Defence
- Perimeter and route monitoring
- Covert deployment with IR capture
- Long stand-off, long endurance
What the incumbents can't do.
The market has wildlife cameras that can't think and enterprise cameras that can't deploy. Machaira is built where the real work is, in between.
| Capability | Consumer wildlife | Enterprise fixed | Machaira |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connectivity | 4G | 4G or wired | LTE-M, with LoRaWAN and satellite to follow |
| Understanding | None | Basic object detection | Vision-language model, your own criteria |
| Alerts and reporting | None | Per camera | Cross-fleet, rule-based, quantified |
| Battery life | Weeks | Days without sun | Indefinite with sun, a year without |
| Setup and management | Per camera, SIM hassle | Specialist install | One button, batch, hierarchical |
| Integration | Difficult | Systems integrator required | API and webhooks |
| Form | Discreet, separate panel | Large, obvious | Small, monolithic, useless if stolen |
Put eyes, and a mind, anywhere you need them.
We are working with a small number of partners on early deployments. Tell us what you want to watch and we will build a demo against your actual scene.