A hundred eyes.None closed.
Hekatops watches the DVRs and NVRs at all your sites around the clock, from Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview and other brands, and tells you by email or Telegram when one goes down, when a hard disk starts failing or when someone crosses a virtual fence.
You have dozens of DVRs at dozens of sites. Most of the time you find out one is down only when you need a recording from it.
How it works
Hekatops runs on your own server and talks directly to your DVRs. It sends no video to the cloud and needs no ports open to the internet.
Add your DVRs
One at a time or from a CSV file. The test button instantly confirms each recorder’s model, serial number and MAC address.
Hekatops listens
It receives every DVR’s events in real time: motion, line crossing, intrusion, hard disk errors. Every few seconds it checks that each recorder is still alive.
You know first
When a DVR stops responding or something important happens, you get an alert by email and Telegram with the site and the exact time.
All your sites at a glance
One screen shows which DVRs are online, what happened today and where. Leave it open on a monitor in your control room.
OverviewEventsDevicesFeatures
Everything you need to trust that your surveillance system is working, without logging in to each DVR.
- Status of every DVR
- Online or offline, when it was last heard from, and why it is down: wrong password, network outage or a powered-off recorder.
- Email and Telegram alerts
- For DVRs that go down and come back, hard disk failures, covered cameras or any event type you choose.
- Your groups, your colors
- You decide what events are called, how they are grouped, which color they get in charts and what shows on the main screen.
- DVR hard disks
- Every 10 minutes Hekatops reads the status and capacity of the internal drives in each recorder. You know right away when a disk reports errors, fails its SMART check or goes missing.
- Control room screen
- The overview can run on a wall monitor without a login and refreshes itself every minute.
- Verified identity
- Hekatops remembers each DVR’s MAC address. If a different device starts answering at that address, collection stops and you are notified.
- History and charts
- Events by hour and day, an activity heatmap by weekday, filters by site and CSV export.
- Your data stays with you
- It runs on your server with your own database. DVR passwords are stored encrypted and administration requires a login.
Works with the recorders you already have
Hekatops talks to each brand in its own native protocol, so you can mix brands across sites and see them all on one screen.
| Brand | Status and events | Hard disk health |
|---|---|---|
| Hikvision | Yes | Yes |
| Dahua | Yes | Yes |
| Rovision | Yes | Yes |
| Safer DVR / XVR | Yes | Yes |
| Uniview | Yes | Failure alerts, when the recorder reports them |
| Safer NVR | Yes | Failure alerts, when the recorder reports them |
| Other ONVIF recorders | Yes | Failure alerts, when the recorder reports them |
Not sure which platform your recorder runs on? Hekatops can detect it for you when you add the device.
Who it is for
Any company or public body with cameras at many sites and one person or a small IT team who has to keep them all running.
Pricing
Simple and small, so it makes sense even for a handful of sites.
For 60 recorders that is €60 a month. The final price depends on how many recorders you monitor and how you want it installed. Contact us for more details.
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If your question isn’t answered here, write to us.
Which recorders does it work with?
Hikvision, Dahua, Rovision and Safer DVRs and NVRs, Uniview NVRs, and other recorders that support ONVIF. Full hard disk monitoring is available on Hikvision and Dahua-based recorders; on ONVIF recorders such as Uniview you get disk failure alerts when the recorder reports them.
Do my recorders need to be reachable from the internet?
No. Hekatops connects to your DVRs over your own network, for example through a VPN or site-to-site tunnels. No camera has to be exposed to the internet.
Where is the data stored?
On your server. Hekatops installs on an Ubuntu virtual machine in your infrastructure with its own database. Nothing leaves for an outside cloud except the alerts you configure.
Does it record video?
No. Recording stays on the DVRs. Hekatops watches their status, storage and events, and for smart events it keeps the snapshot the DVR sends.
How hard is it to install?
Installation takes a few minutes with a single script. Then you add your DVRs in the web interface or from a CSV file.
Want to see Hekatops on your own DVRs?
We’ll show you the system running on a few of your sites, so you see exactly what you get.