Mobile Sentry™
Solar-Powered Mobile Thermal Perimeter Security and Wide-Area Threat Detection
Mobile Sentry™ is a rapidly deployable, solar-powered security trailer designed to bring Thermal Radar™ wide-area thermal detection to locations where permanent security infrastructure may be unavailable, impractical, temporary, or still under construction.
Deploy Thermal Radar™ or Hydra™ on a rugged mobile platform with integrated solar power, battery storage, networking, communications, local computing, and an adjustable mast. Mobile Sentry™ enables organizations to establish continuous 360° thermal perimeter monitoring without first installing the extensive power, communications, poles, cabling, and other infrastructure typically associated with multi-camera perimeter security systems.
With Thermal Radar™, Mobile Sentry™ can monitor from the inside out—beyond the protected perimeter, at the perimeter, and throughout the protected area—while continuously detecting and reporting multiple qualifying intrusion events across the monitored environment. When equipped with optional fireSENSE™, the system can also detect multiple developing fire events or developing fire and intrusion activity simultaneously.
By combining mobile deployment with the wide-area coverage of Thermal Radar™, Mobile Sentry™ can reduce the number of cameras, mounting locations, network connections, VMS licenses, installation components, and long-term maintenance points required for large-area surveillance—helping organizations simplify deployment and lower the total cost of ownership.
Continuous 360° Thermal Monitoring
Solar-Powered Mobile Deployment
Reduced Security Infrastructure
Built for Mobile Security Deployment in Demanding Environments
Mobile Sentry™ provides a rugged physical platform for deploying Thermal Radar™ or Hydra™ at remote sites, temporary projects, expanding facilities, construction areas, critical infrastructure, and other locations where permanent security infrastructure may be difficult or costly to install.
The heavy-duty steel trailer incorporates a welded steel body, durable powder-coated exterior, 6,000-pound axle, hydraulically operated mast extending up to 27 feet, electronically actuated solar array, stabilizing outriggers, locking access doors, temperature-controlled internal electronics environment, and a folding drawbar for transport and security.
Once positioned and stabilized, the elevated platform provides Thermal Radar™ with the mounting height and infrastructure needed to establish wide-area thermal perimeter monitoring while retaining the flexibility to relocate the system as security requirements change.
Self-Contained Solar Power, Communications and Security Infrastructure
Mobile Sentry™ brings the supporting infrastructure needed for Thermal Radar™ deployment together on a single mobile platform. Configurations can include two or four 400-watt solar panels, 250 Ah or 500 Ah of 24V battery storage, a ruggedized Windows-based computer, network switch, cellular and Wi-Fi communications, remote power monitoring, camera power supplies, and other supporting electronics.
Optional configurations can add point-to-point communications, deterrence technologies including speakers, strobes and LED lighting, additional solar and battery capacity, and supplemental charging through an EFOY methanol fuel cell or diesel generator.
This integrated architecture is especially useful for sites where trenching, commercial power, fixed network infrastructure, permanent camera poles, or other conventional security infrastructure is unavailable or undesirable.
Why Deploy Thermal Radar™ on Mobile Sentry™?
Traditional perimeter security systems often require multiple visible-light or fixed thermal cameras positioned around a property, along with poles, foundations, power connections, network infrastructure, trenching, cabling, switches, VMS licenses, and ongoing maintenance for each deployed device.
Mobile Sentry™ combines a rapidly deployable security platform with Thermal Radar™ wide-area 360° thermal monitoring. Instead of installing numerous fixed cameras to monitor separate fields of view, organizations can use Thermal Radar™ to monitor a much larger surrounding area from a single elevated location.
This can reduce the amount of permanent infrastructure required while providing the flexibility to relocate the detection platform as site conditions or security requirements change.
The result can be fewer cameras, fewer installation points, fewer network and power connections, fewer VMS licenses, fewer components to maintain, and a simpler security architecture—helping lower total cost of ownership throughout the life of the deployment.
Mobile Sentry™ vs. Traditional Mobile Surveillance Trailers
Traditional perimeter security systems often require multiple visible-light or fixed thermal cameras or sensors positioned around a property, along with poles, foundations, power connections, network infrastructure, trenching, cabling, switches, VMS licenses, and ongoing maintenance for each deployed device.
Mobile Sentry™ combines a rapidly deployable security platform with Thermal Radar™ wide-area 360° thermal monitoring. Instead of installing numerous fixed cameras to monitor separate fields of view, organizations can use Thermal Radar™ to monitor a much larger surrounding area from a single elevated location.
This can reduce the amount of permanent infrastructure required while providing the flexibility to relocate the detection platform as site conditions or security requirements change.
The result can be fewer cameras, fewer installation points, fewer network and power connections, fewer VMS licenses, fewer components to maintain, and a simpler security architecture—helping lower total cost of ownership throughout the life of the deployment.
Thermal Radar™ Detection on Mobile Sentry™
Continuous 360° Thermal Monitoring
Thermal Radar™ uses a rapidly rotating thermal sensor and onboard edge analytics to create a panoramic thermal view of the monitored environment. Rather than dedicating individual fixed cameras to separate directions, the system continuously monitors multiple views around the Mobile Sentry™ location.
Inside-Out Perimeter Monitoring
Mobile Sentry™ can be positioned inside the protected property so Thermal Radar™ monitors outward from its location—beyond the protected perimeter, at the perimeter, and throughout the protected area. This provides earlier awareness of approaching activity while continuing to monitor activity at and inside the site.
Multiple Simultaneous Threat Detection
Thermal Radar™ can continuously detect and report multiple qualifying events occurring in different parts of the monitored area. Security teams can receive detection information for multiple people, vehicles, or intrusion events without requiring one camera to remain focused on only one target.
Geospatial Mapping, GUI, and Flexible Alerts
Thermal Radar™ provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to configure and customize the monitored environment, define detection areas, and view activity across the 360° thermal coverage area. Qualifying detections can be associated with geospatial location information to help operators quickly understand where activity is occurring.
Mobile Sentry™ can integrate with compatible VMS and security platforms, while alerts may also be delivered through supported email, text, mobile, or security-system workflows.
Optional Early Fire Detection with fireSENSE™
Mobile Sentry™ can also deploy Thermal Radar™ with optional fireSENSE™ for early detection of developing fire events across large outdoor properties.
With fireSENSE™ enabled, the same Thermal Radar™ platform used for thermal intrusion detection can continue monitoring for qualifying security activity while also identifying developing fire events. Multiple intrusion events, multiple developing fire events, or developing fire and intrusion activity can be detected and reported simultaneously.
This makes Mobile Sentry™ particularly useful for temporary, remote, expanding, or infrastructure-limited sites where organizations need both perimeter security and earlier awareness of developing fire conditions without building two completely separate detection architectures.
Add Hydra™ for Directed Visual Assessment
Mobile Sentry™ can deploy Thermal Radar™ as a standalone thermal detection solution or pair it with a compatible PTZ camera through Hydra™.
Thermal Radar™ performs the wide-area thermal detection. When a qualifying event is detected, Hydra™ can use the event's geospatial location to direct a compatible PTZ camera toward the detected activity for closer visual assessment.
This layered approach combines continuous 360° thermal detection with directed PTZ verification, helping security personnel quickly understand what Thermal Radar™ detected without requiring the PTZ camera to continuously search the entire property.
Thermal Radar™ does not require a PTZ camera to perform detection; Hydra™ adds visual assessment when that capability is desired.
Mobile Thermal Security for Remote, Temporary, and Expanding Sites
Mobile Sentry™ is designed for locations that require wide-area perimeter security but may not have the permanent infrastructure needed for a conventional fixed-camera deployment.
Construction and Expanding Facilities
Deploy thermal perimeter monitoring while permanent buildings, fencing, utilities, network infrastructure, or security systems are still being installed.
Critical Infrastructure and Utilities
Extend thermal intrusion detection to substations, electrical infrastructure, pumping stations, telecommunications assets, utility construction areas, and other remote or unmanned locations.
Solar Farms, BESS and Renewable Energy Sites
Provide rapidly deployable wide-area thermal monitoring for perimeter activity and, with optional fireSENSE™, developing fire events around renewable energy infrastructure.
Data Centers
Protect construction areas, new campus expansions, equipment yards, electrical infrastructure, temporary access areas, and other portions of data center properties where permanent security infrastructure may not yet be complete.
Industrial and Commercial Sites
Deploy mobile thermal perimeter monitoring around equipment yards, warehouses, recycling operations, manufacturing properties, storage areas, and temporary projects.
Airports, Ports and Transportation Assets
Extend thermal monitoring to temporary work zones, cargo areas, remote access points, storage areas, and other locations requiring flexible perimeter protection.
Large Private and Remote Properties
Provide solar-powered thermal perimeter monitoring for ranches, estates, agricultural properties and remote locations where commercial power or permanent network infrastructure may be limited.
Mobile Sentry™ Technical Specifications
More Wide-Area Coverage with Fewer Cameras
Thermal Radar™ provides continuous 360° thermal monitoring from a single elevated Mobile Sentry™ platform, helping reduce the number of traditional visible-light and fixed thermal cameras needed to monitor large outdoor areas.
RAPID SOLAR-POWERED DEPLOYMENT
Mobile Sentry™ combines solar power, battery storage, communications, networking, computing, and an adjustable mast on one mobile platform, making it easier to deploy Thermal Radar™ where permanent infrastructure may be limited or unavailable.
LESS PERMANENT SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE
By bringing power, communications, mounting, and supporting electronics together on the trailer, Mobile Sentry™ can reduce the need for extensive trenching, cabling, poles, foundations, and other fixed security infrastructure.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Fewer cameras, installation points, network connections, VMS licenses, and maintenance locations can help simplify the overall perimeter security architecture and reduce long-term deployment, licensing, and maintenance costs.
Deploy Wide-Area Thermal Security Where You Need It
Permanent infrastructure should not determine where advanced perimeter security can be deployed.
Mobile Sentry™ brings Thermal Radar™ wide-area thermal monitoring to remote properties, temporary projects, expanding facilities, critical infrastructure, construction environments, and other locations where fixed security infrastructure may be unavailable or impractical.
With solar power, battery storage, integrated communications, flexible networking, an elevated mast, and support for Thermal Radar™, Hydra™, and optional fireSENSE™, Mobile Sentry™ provides a flexible platform for continuous thermal intrusion detection and early fire detection.
By combining mobile deployment with Thermal Radar™ wide-area coverage, organizations can reduce camera count, simplify supporting infrastructure, reduce licensing and maintenance requirements, and lower the total cost of ownership for large-area perimeter security.
Contact Thermal Radar to connect with an authorized representative and evaluate the right Mobile Sentry™ configuration for your property or project.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Mobile Sentry™ Perimeter Security
What is Mobile Sentry™?
Mobile Sentry™ is a solar-powered mobile security platform designed to deploy Thermal Radar™ or Hydra™ for wide-area thermal perimeter monitoring. It combines an elevated camera mast, solar generation, battery storage, communications, networking, computing, and supporting electronics on a rugged mobile trailer so thermal security can be deployed where permanent infrastructure may be unavailable or impractical.
Is Mobile Sentry™ a thermal camera?
No. Mobile Sentry™ is the mobile deployment platform. Thermal Radar™ is the thermal surveillance and detection technology mounted on the platform. Mobile Sentry™ provides the power, communications, networking, mast, computing, and physical infrastructure needed to deploy Thermal Radar™ in remote, temporary, expanding, or infrastructure-limited environments.
Is Mobile Sentry™ solar powered?
Yes. Mobile Sentry™ is designed as a solar-powered deployment platform. Configurations can include two or four 400-watt solar panels with 250 Ah or 500 Ah of 24V battery storage. Supplemental charging options, including an EFOY methanol fuel cell or diesel generator, are also available for applicable deployments.
What does Mobile Sentry™ detect?
Detection is performed by the Thermal Radar™ system deployed on Mobile Sentry™. Thermal Radar™ uses passive thermal imaging and onboard analytics to detect qualifying thermal activity such as people, vehicles, and intrusion events across a 360° monitored area.
Can Mobile Sentry™ monitor outside a property's fence?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ uses an inside-out monitoring approach that can monitor beyond the protected perimeter, at the perimeter, and throughout the protected property, subject to terrain, obstructions, environmental conditions, system configuration, and line of sight.
Can Mobile Sentry™ detect multiple intruders at the same time?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ can continuously detect and report multiple qualifying intrusion events occurring in different areas of the monitored environment rather than limiting detection to a single target or camera view.
Can Mobile Sentry™ provide early fire detection?
Yes. When the Thermal Radar™ deployed on Mobile Sentry™ is equipped with optional fireSENSE™, the system can identify developing fire events while continuing to monitor for qualifying intrusion activity. It can detect multiple developing fire events or developing fire and intrusion activity simultaneously.
Does Mobile Sentry™ require a PTZ camera?
No. Thermal Radar™ can perform wide-area thermal detection as a standalone system. A compatible PTZ camera can be added through Hydra™ when directed visual assessment of Thermal Radar™ detections is desired.
How is Mobile Sentry™ different from a traditional mobile surveillance trailer?
Traditional mobile surveillance trailers often rely on multiple visible-light or fixed thermal cameras, with each camera monitoring a limited direction or field of view. Mobile Sentry™ is designed to deploy Thermal Radar™, which uses a rapidly rotating thermal sensor to provide continuous 360° wide-area thermal monitoring from a single elevated platform.
Does Mobile Sentry™ work at night?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ detects thermal energy rather than depending on visible illumination, allowing Mobile Sentry™ to provide thermal perimeter monitoring during daylight and complete darkness.
Can Mobile Sentry™ operate in bad weather?
Thermal imaging can maintain useful detection capabilities through most weather conditions and challenging lighting environments. Actual detection performance depends on environmental conditions, thermal contrast, terrain, installation height, obstructions, system configuration, and line of sight.
Does Mobile Sentry™ need commercial power?
Not necessarily. Mobile Sentry™ incorporates solar generation and battery storage specifically to support deployments where commercial power may be unavailable or impractical. Supplemental charging options can also be incorporated depending on the deployment.
Can Mobile Sentry™ integrate with a VMS?
Yes. Mobile Sentry™ can incorporate local computing and networking infrastructure, while Thermal Radar™ integrates with compatible Video Management Systems and broader physical security platforms. Integration capabilities depend on the selected platform and project configuration.
Can Mobile Sentry™ be relocated?
Yes. Mobility is one of the platform's primary advantages. The heavy-duty trailer can be transported and redeployed as site conditions, project phases, construction boundaries, asset locations, or security requirements change. The user manual includes dedicated deployment and shutdown procedures for relocating the system.
How can Mobile Sentry™ lower the total cost of perimeter security?
Mobile Sentry™ combines mobile infrastructure with Thermal Radar™ wide-area monitoring. Depending on the site, this can reduce the number of cameras, poles, foundations, power connections, network connections, cable runs, VMS licenses, installation components, and maintenance points required compared with traditional multi-camera perimeter security deployments. The ability to relocate the platform can also reduce the need to build permanent security infrastructure for temporary or changing security requirements.
Where is Mobile Sentry™ typically used?
Mobile Sentry™ is suited for critical infrastructure, utilities, renewable energy sites, BESS facilities, data centers, industrial properties, construction sites, airports, ports, transportation assets, remote equipment locations, large private properties, and other sites requiring rapidly deployable wide-area perimeter security.