Operational intelligence on any camera.
Use the cameras you already own. Gobi turns motion into searchable event history, daily timelapses, and real-time site visibility from one small edge node.
Takes 2–3 minutes · No credit card required · Works with your current setup
- Works with existing RTSP cameras
- Flat pricing — no per-camera fees
- Setup typically under 1 hour
Used by: construction sites, municipalities, farms, and multi-site operations.
Traditional systems help you find video after something goes wrong. Gobi helps you understand what is happening across your site every day. Built for operators, municipalities, farms, job sites, and businesses that need answers from the cameras they already paid for.
Every business has cameras. Almost none of them create business value.
Most camera systems only record footage nobody watches until something goes wrong. Businesses pay thousands for cameras, servers, subscriptions, and installation — then still cannot answer simple operational questions.
Traditional Cameras
Store video. Wait for an incident. Hope someone scrubs through hours of footage to find it.
Gobi
Turns video into searchable operational data — every day, automatically, across every site.
One edge node. Any camera. Searchable intelligence in minutes.
A Gobi node connects to your existing IP cameras, processes motion locally, sends important events through AI analysis, and displays results in a secure dashboard.
✓ No router changes
✓ No static IP
✓ No VPN setup
✓ No per-camera fees
Gobi delivers four useful artifacts every day.
Not a pile of recordings — a structured set of deliverables you can actually use, share, and search.
▶ Live Stream + Forensic Recording
Private live view, motion-triggered clips, and short-term forensic recording for incident review — without exposing any inbound ports.
⏱ Daily Timelapse
A shareable MP4 summary of the day — perfect for construction progress, farm updates, resort views, city projects, and stakeholder reporting.
🗂 Snapshot ZIP Archive
A downloadable archive of raw frames you own forever. Take it with you. Your cameras, your data.
⌕ AI Motion Log
A permanent searchable history of every meaningful event, enriched with AI labels, descriptions, faces, plates, and tags.
Search your site like a database.
Instead of scrubbing through hours of video, search by person, vehicle, plate, time, object, tag, or natural-language description.
| Time | Camera | Object | AI Summary | Plate | Face | Clip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 04 · 07:42 | North Gate | Truck | Red Ford F-250 enters site, parks near material lay-down area. | 7XKA221 | — | play |
| Mar 11 · 16:18 | South Lot | Truck | Red Ford pickup leaves south lot, two persons inside. | 7XKA221 | 2 known | play |
| Mar 22 · 11:03 | North Gate | Truck | Red Ford F-150 with utility rack, contractor uniform. | 3HB-9920 | 1 known | play |
| Mar 28 · 19:51 | Yard | Truck | Red Ford after hours, no scheduled work order. | UNKNOWN | 1 unknown | play |
Example searches
Built on edge AI, not cloud camera lock-in.
Local detection keeps cost and latency low. Cloud AI adds rich context only on the events that matter. You stay in control of your cameras, your network, and your data.
▶ Frigate — local motion & object detection
Runs on the Gobi node. Filters noise, identifies people, vehicles, and objects in real time without sending raw video to the cloud.
▶ Gobi event poller
Watches Frigate, packages meaningful events, and pushes them upstream for enrichment.
▶ AWS Rekognition — labels, plates, face match
Fast object/text/plate detection and optional face matching against your private library.
▶ Claude Vision — scene descriptions & tags
Generates natural-language summaries and structured tags so events are human-searchable.
▶ Cloudflare Tunnel — secure access, no open ports
Outbound-only secure tunnel. No port forwarding, no static IPs, no firewall changes.
▶ Tailscale — private fleet management
Manage every Gobi node across every site over a private mesh — even on cellular or Starlink.
▶ Node-RED & MQTT — automation & sensors
Wire cameras to relays, gates, PLCs, Modbus devices, tank monitors, alerts and dashboards.
▶ Bubble — searchable dashboard
A clean web dashboard for live view, timelapses, event search, and per-site reporting.
Want the deep-dive? See the full architecture page →
What it is. What it isn't.
Replaces
- Manual daily site checks
- NVRs that only record video
- Per-camera SaaS billing
- Scrubbing footage to find an event
- Disconnected sensor dashboards
Gobi is not
- A replacement for life-safety alarm systems
- A real-time threat-response service
- A consumer doorbell or app
- A camera manufacturer
- A guarantee against missed events
Best for
- Sites with existing IP cameras
- Operations that need an event log, not just video
- Multi-site or remote facilities
- Construction, municipal, industrial, agricultural sites
- Public webcam & tourism use cases
Requires RTSP-compatible cameras. Internet connection required for cloud features.
Built for real-world physical operations.
Gobi is deployed across construction, municipal, industrial, agricultural, retail and tourism sites — anywhere cameras already exist and operations need visibility.
🏗 Construction
Daily progress timelapses, contractor arrival logs, safety review, equipment movement, lender and stakeholder updates.
🏛 Municipal
Use existing city-owned cameras, searchable public works visibility, LPR, after-hours detection, public project documentation.
⛽ Oil & Gas / Industrial
Remote site monitoring, tank/valve/gauge visibility, sensor integration, PLC alerts, secure remote dashboards.
🌾 Agriculture
Crop documentation, solar/cellular nodes, equipment tracking, frost/weather/sensor dashboards.
🛒 Retail / Multi-Site
Foot traffic, delivery verification, parking activity, queue monitoring, per-location reporting.
🏨 Tourism / Hospitality
Embeddable live snapshots, public webcam pages, YouTube live streaming, resort/marina/city views.
Turn cameras into public-facing marketing assets.
Tourism boards, resorts, marinas, restaurants, ski areas and project owners can publish live views with no extra hardware.
🔗 Embeddable Snapshot URL
A stable image URL that updates automatically and can be embedded on any website, intranet, or signage system.
📡 RTMP Push to YouTube & more
Stream directly from the Gobi node to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Live, or custom RTMP destinations.
Use cases
More than cameras. A no-code automation layer for the physical world.
Gobi's Automate tier ships with Node-RED and MQTT — so cameras, sensors, relays, gates, PLCs, Modbus devices, tank monitors and dashboards all talk to each other.
⚙ Tank level < 20%
SMS the operations manager and post a snapshot to the dashboard.
🚗 Plate recognized
Open the gate and log the entry to the AI Motion Log automatically.
🛑 PLC offline
Capture a snapshot and email the plant manager with last-known status.
🌱 Soil moisture low
Update the agronomy dashboard and alert the crew on Slack.
🚪 Door opens after hours
Log the event with face match (if known) and notify the on-call.
📦 Vehicle arrives
Post to Slack, email the dock supervisor, and timestamp in the log.
Flat pricing. No per-camera tax.
Unlike traditional systems, Gobi does not charge per camera. Pricing is flat per node, so you can grow your camera footprint without growing your bill.
- Everything in Basic
- AI Motion Log
- Searchable event history
- Claude + Rekognition analysis
- Everything in Standard
- License-plate recognition
- Facial recognition
- RTMP push to YouTube / custom
- Everything in Pro
- Node-RED + MQTT
- Sensor dashboards
- Custom flows + white-label
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Hardware for every deployment.
Hardware is not the lock-in. The value is the intelligence layer.
🍓 Gobi Solo — Raspberry Pi 5
Remote, solar, one-camera deployments.
📦 Gobi Site — Beelink N100
Core small-business deployment.
📷 Gobi BYOC
Customer brings existing cameras.
💻 Gobi Pro — Dell OptiPlex
Professional mid-market deployments.
🖥 Gobi Server — Dell PowerEdge
24/7 multi-camera environments.
🛠 Gobi Industrial
Rugged industrial / municipal / oil & gas deployments.
🏢 Gobi Enterprise
Mission-critical multi-site fleets with dedicated support.
Why not Verkada, Avigilon, Genetec, Ring or Wyze?
Gobi is for customers who want intelligence from the cameras they already own — without proprietary hardware contracts or per-camera fees.
| Vendor | Requires proprietary cameras? | Per-camera pricing? | Open RTSP support? | AI event search? | Daily timelapse? | Sensor automation? | Flat pricing? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verkada | Yes | Yes | No | Limited | Limited | No | No |
| Avigilon | Yes | Yes | Limited | Limited | No | No | No |
| Genetec | Mixed | Yes | Yes | Limited | No | Limited | No |
| Ring / Wyze | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Gobi | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Built. Deployed. Ready for first customers.
Gobi is not a concept deck. The platform is already running in production across physical sites. New nodes can be deployed from bare metal to dashboard quickly, and additional cameras can be added without a full IT project.
Common questions.
Can Gobi work with my existing cameras?
Yes, if they support RTSP or a compatible IP camera stream. Most modern IP cameras do.
Do I need to replace my cameras?
No. Gobi is designed around bring-your-own-camera deployments.
Do I need IT to configure routers or port forwarding?
No. Gobi uses outbound secure tunnels, so most deployments do not require router changes.
Is pricing per camera?
No. Gobi pricing is flat per node, regardless of how many cameras are connected.
Can Gobi create daily timelapses?
Yes. Gobi creates a daily MP4 timelapse and snapshot archive on every tier.
Can Gobi recognize license plates?
Yes, on Pro and higher tiers.
Can Gobi support sensors?
Yes. The Automate tier includes Node-RED and MQTT for sensor dashboards and automation.
Can Gobi stream to YouTube?
Yes. Pro and higher tiers support RTMP push to YouTube and other platforms.
Can cities use cameras they already own?
Yes. Municipal BYOC deployments are a core use case.
Want to see what your cameras could become?
Tell us about your site. We can usually tell quickly whether your existing cameras are compatible — and what Gobi could deliver on day one.
- No per-camera fees.
- No proprietary camera lock-in.
- No router changes in most deployments.
- Built for existing RTSP cameras.
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