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Giraffe Software

Your remote surveillance CCTV tower product reimagined. We believe your tower should be easy to setup, control and manage and that is exactly what the Giraffe Platform allows you to do.

At Giraffe, we are obsessed by reducing operational costs and making our platform as simple and intuitive to operate as possible. A comprehensive range of features is a given but we want to make the user interface so simple, that no specialist training is required to use it. We want it to "just work".

In pursuit of our obsession, we recognise that the quality of live view and recording is critical. And we understand that Artificial Intelligence is now a crucial function, so it is included.

However, where we truly excel is the development of the "back end" management functions that are critical to the management of a fleet of rapidly deployable CCTV towers. Accordingly, we have focused on providing battery management, solar management and we are advancing towards integrating data management. More than that, we have invested in a comprehensive suite of features to simplify the remote management of towers and CCTV units, including graphs, alerts, status, audit trail and so much more.

To use it is to understand the power of the platform. Ask us for a demonstration!

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Cloud Based Software

Manage all your towers from a single login

Easy To Use

No configuration or training necessary

Artificial Intelligence

AI processing done at the ‘edge', built into the Edge Controller

Safe & Secure

User permissions, multi-factor authentication and SSL security

Our own software

What is the Giraffe platform?

Cloud Based

The Giraffe platform is much more than just a VMS (video management system).

The Giraffe platform is an easy-to-use cloud based remote tower management system capable of being operated from any internet enabled device without any training or experience.

Centralised Security Control

From a single holistic dashboard, you can view all your cameras, be alerted to any intrusions and see the overall health of your remote CCTV tower.

We believe your tower should be easy to setup, control and manage and that is exactly what the Giraffe Platform allows you to do.

From an internet browser you can view or play back your cameras, control the siren, speaker, floodlight & strobe from the same screen as managing your team permissions. You can view all your towers from different sites in a single location.

Key Features

Live view, feature rich cloud recording

Any camera brand, any camera

PC or app based operation

Audit trail and comprehensive, enhanced recording

Single, secure, multi-factor authentication login

Our own artificial Intelligence module

Solar and battery management

Total Control & Visibility

Do you think that solar powered towers are a sustainable solution? We are experts in solar and the control and management of CCTV towers.

Do you have complex customer requirements such as thermal imaging cameras? ANPR? PIRs?

Whatever it is, we can help!

We will work with you to understand what you need and deliver a system that is for you to integrate into your tower builds.

Notifications & Alerts

Your customers want to know when there is something happening on their site.

With Giraffe, they can configure exactly which events they are alerted on. If they only care about people being detected after 10PM, they can do that.

Importantly, they will also get alerts for serious potential issues such as a low battery or system faults.

Solar Powered Systems

The Giraffe system has a deep integration with Victron solar chargers, battery shunts and mains chargers.

The system will monitor the data coming from the Victron devices using a serial connection and display it in real time on the system status page. You can see exactly how much power is being generated, the state of the batteries and how much power the tower is using.

The system will also archive the data to the cloud, allowing you to review graphs and charts historically. This is incredibly useful for remotely troubleshooting and diagnosing problems with systems.

The solar integration is integral to our platform, and does not rely on any third party hardware or software. Simply connect the Victron devices via the VE.Direct ports!

Cloud Computing, Secure By Design

Core Competency

Giraffe's only business is looking after your security system. It's literally core to our business. We don't take shortcuts.

Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

Logins that rely on usernames and passwords will get hacked as a result of human operators doing silly things. Multi factor authentication such as one time passwords sent via SMS massively decrease the risk of social engineering attacks.

Industry Standards

We follow all the industry best practices and use existing, battle tested components where possible.

Reduced Surface Area

Our cloud platform reduces the surface area for attacks because the entry points are very well defined and can be locked down. Contrast this to a typical NVR (network video recorder) with port forwarding setup.

SSL Encryption

Video streams are encrypted from end to end and transported over WebRTC. Much more secure than unencrypted RTSP streams.

Automatic Updates

Being part of the Giraffe platform means your system is never out of date and always in receipt of the latest security patches with no intervention on your behalf.

Zero-Trust Architecture

Zero trust is simply another way of saying, “never trust, always verify” in order to protect digital environments. Giraffe’s cloud approach adopts this model. VPNs and private APNs are not necessarily secure if the wrong people gain access.

Private Clouds

Some organisations choose to host all their infrastructure in their own ‘private cloud’ for various reasons. Giraffe is happy to facilitate this if required.

UK Owned

Giraffe is proud to be a UK technology and manufacturing company.

Cloud Recording

All of our cameras record 24/7 to an internal solid state drive.
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You can easily play back the footage by going to the web app and selecting the appropriate point on the timeline. The footage is then streamed from the tower directly to your device.

The footage can also be exported and saved to your local computer, either via the web interface, or if you have lots of footage to export in bulk, by connecting a USB stick directly to the device.

A really useful feature is being able to quickly scrub through snapshot images for events of interest.

Powerful Artificial Intelligence

Are you fed up with false detections from your “AI”? There is no point getting hundreds of false detections as the one that matters will be missed.

Giraffe uses the powerful Google Coral processor and industry leading AI models to filter out almost all false alarms before they even get sent.

Using a proprietary tracking algorithm, we only send events for objects of interest when they move. You will not get false alerts for stationary cars or objects that sometimes appear to look like a person.

Alarm Receiving Centre Integration

We have a simple and straightforward integration with leading central station monitoring software providers.

You can grant full control of the tower to your preferred monitoring station, with almost zero setup or configuration.

Or you can simply monitor your tower yourself, with our own alarm view page.

Alarms and Automation

You can control the tower manually, but it’s more powerful if it can take automated actions when it senses something is amiss.

Battery operated PIR sensors can trigger PTZ (pan to zoom) presets which will allow you to cover a much larger area with a single tower.

The AI can trigger siren, strobe, floodlight or speaker activations when a vehicle or person is detected moving as well as sending alerts.

Schedules can be configured to automatically arm and disarm the system, or turn the floodlights on overnight.