Tower Sentry™
Solar-Powered Tower-Based Thermal Perimeter Security
Tower Sentry™ Solar-Powered Thermal Radar™ Deployment Platform
Tower Sentry™ is a rugged, solar-powered tower platform purpose-built to deploy Thermal Radar™ for wide-area perimeter security and continuous thermal surveillance. Designed for remote, unmanned, and infrastructure-limited locations, Tower Sentry™ combines an elevated 19.5-foot mast with integrated solar power, battery storage, communications, networking, and remote system management.
With Thermal Radar™, Tower Sentry™ provides continuous 360° thermal monitoring from an elevated position, detecting qualifying activity beyond, at, and inside the protected perimeter. Unlike traditional security architectures that rely on multiple visible-light or fixed thermal cameras monitoring individual fields of view, Thermal Radar™ continuously scans the surrounding environment for people, vehicles, and other defined threats.
By combining Tower Sentry's integrated deployment infrastructure with Thermal Radar's wide-area coverage, organizations can reduce the number of cameras, installation points, power and network connections, VMS licenses, and long-term maintenance points required for large-area surveillance, helping to simplify perimeter protection and lower the total cost of ownership.
With optional fireSENSE™, the same Thermal Radar™ system can also detect developing fire events while continuing to monitor for multiple security threats, providing simultaneous intrusion and developing-fire awareness across the monitored area.
Continuous 360° Thermal Monitoring
Solar-Powered Security
Reduced Security Infrastructure
Tower-Based Thermal Security Built for Demanding Environments
Tower Sentry™ provides a rugged, purpose-built platform for deploying Thermal Radar™ at critical infrastructure, utilities, renewable energy facilities, industrial properties, remote sites, and other outdoor environments where reliable wide-area perimeter monitoring is required.
Built with heavy-duty hot-dipped galvanized steel, an IP66-rated component enclosure, and an expandable mast reaching 19.5 feet, Tower Sentry™ provides an elevated platform for continuous 360° thermal monitoring while integrating the power, communications, networking, and supporting electronics required for the deployment.
The standard solar power package includes two 400-watt solar panels and 250 Ah of battery storage, along with an 8-port network switch, Wi-Fi router, remote monitoring and control, power management, and optional PC support for compatible VMS platforms. These integrated components help simplify deployment and reduce the amount of separate infrastructure required at the site.
For locations requiring additional power resilience, Tower Sentry™ can also be equipped with an optional environmentally friendly methanol fuel cell to provide supplemental power and extend system operation when needed. Together, the integrated solar generation, battery storage, communications, networking, and power management provide a self-contained foundation for deploying Thermal Radar™ in locations where conventional security infrastructure may be limited, difficult, or costly to install.
Integrated Infrastructure for Flexible Tower Sentry™ Deployment
Tower Sentry™ integrates the power, communications, networking, and system infrastructure needed to support Thermal Radar™ in a single purpose-built platform. This integrated approach can simplify deployment at locations where bringing commercial power, network connectivity, or other conventional security infrastructure to the desired monitoring location may be difficult or costly.
Tower Sentry™ can also be configured to meet site-specific requirements with options including additional solar and battery capacity, point-to-point communications, supplemental power, and deterrence technologies such as talk-down speakers, strobes, and LED lighting.
By consolidating these capabilities into the Tower Sentry™ platform, organizations can reduce the amount of separate equipment and supporting infrastructure required in the field, helping simplify installation, system management, and ongoing maintenance while supporting a lower total cost of ownership.
Why Deploy Thermal Radar™ on Tower Sentry™?
WIDE-AREA DETECTION:
Thermal Radar™ is the patented thermal detection technology deployed on Tower Sentry™. Unlike traditional visible-light cameras and fixed thermal cameras that monitor a limited field of view, Thermal Radar™ continuously rotates to scan 360° around its location for thermal activity.
Depending on the Thermal Radar™ model, target, terrain, environmental conditions, and site configuration, a single system can monitor up to approximately 220 acres, providing wide-area perimeter security with fewer cameras and supporting components.
POWERFUL ONBOARD THERMAL VIDEO ANALYTICS
Thermal Radar™ uses edge-based video analytics to detect and classify thermal activity across user-defined areas of interest. Detection zones, exclusion areas, sensitivity settings, confidence thresholds, schedules, and other configurable rules allow the system to adapt to the unique security requirements of each site.
Because Thermal Radar™ continuously scans the monitored area, it can detect multiple qualifying events occurring in different directions, including multiple people or vehicles, without requiring an operator to choose which direction a camera should monitor.
GEOSPATIAL MAPPING, GUI, AND FLEXIBLE ALERTS
Thermal Radar™ provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that allows operators to configure the monitored environment, establish user-defined areas of interest, customize detection rules, and view qualifying activity across the 360° thermal coverage area surrounding Tower Sentry™. Detection events include geospatial location information to help operators understand where activity is occurring, while compatible integrations allow alarms and event information to be delivered through supported VMS, email, text, mobile, or other configured security workflows.
This combination of wide-area detection, geospatial awareness, and flexible alerting helps security teams move from simply viewing cameras to understanding where qualifying activity is occurring across the protected environment.
Inside-Out Perimeter Protection with Tower Sentry™
Tower Sentry™ deploys Thermal Radar™ from an elevated, solar-powered platform to provide continuous wide-area thermal monitoring from the inside out. Rather than focusing detection primarily along a fence line or property boundary, user-defined areas of interest can extend beyond the protected perimeter, along the perimeter, and inside the property, giving security teams greater awareness of activity across the entire monitored environment.
This inside-out approach can provide earlier threat detection by identifying qualifying people or vehicles before they reach the protected perimeter. If a detected target reaches or crosses the perimeter, Thermal Radar™ continues monitoring the surrounding area, helping maintain situational awareness as activity moves throughout the site.
By combining Tower Sentry's flexible, elevated deployment with Thermal Radar's continuous 360° scanning and configurable detection areas, organizations can monitor large outdoor properties without relying solely on fence-line sensors or the limited fields of view of traditional fixed visible-light and thermal cameras. The result is a broader approach to perimeter protection and continuous perimeter surveillance designed to detect threats earlier and maintain awareness beyond, at, and inside the protected perimeter.
Optional Early Fire Detection with fireSENSE™
Tower 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 Tower 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.
Multiple Simultaneous Threat Detection
Thermal Radar™ continuously scans the environment around Tower Sentry™ and can detect and report multiple qualifying events occurring simultaneously in different areas of the monitored property. Security teams can maintain awareness of multiple people, vehicles, or intrusion events approaching or moving through the site without relying on a single camera focused on only one target or direction. This continuous wide-area awareness is particularly valuable for critical infrastructure and large outdoor properties where threats may approach from multiple directions or several security events may occur at the same time. Rather than sacrificing awareness in one area to investigate activity in another, Thermal Radar™ continues scanning the full 360° environment around Tower Sentry™.
When optional fireSENSE™ is added, this simultaneous monitoring capability extends beyond security threats to include developing fire events. Thermal Radar™ can continue monitoring for multiple intrusion events while also detecting developing fire conditions—allowing security teams to receive awareness of multiple intrusions, multiple developing fire events, or security and developing fire events occurring at the same time.
By combining Tower Sentry's elevated deployment with Thermal Radar's continuous 360° thermal monitoring and optional fireSENSE™, organizations gain a broader view of activity across the protected environment and can identify multiple events that may require attention without limiting detection to a single camera view or a single type of threat.
Add Hydra™ for Directed Visual Assessment
PTZ INTEGRATION:
Tower Sentry™ can be configured with Hydra™, which combines Thermal Radar™ with a compatible PTZ camera for layered thermal detection and directed visual assessment. Thermal Radar™ provides the continuous 360° thermal detection while the PTZ provides targeted visual information about qualifying events.
DETECTION AND TARGETED VISUAL ASSESSMENT:
When Thermal Radar™ detects a qualifying event, the system can direct the paired PTZ camera toward the detected location. This slew-to-cue capability allows security personnel to visually assess activity without relying on the PTZ camera to continuously search the entire property.
SMARTER SURVEILLANCE:
Combining wide-area thermal detection with directed PTZ assessment allows organizations to use each technology for what it does best: Thermal Radar™ continuously monitors the surrounding environment for qualifying thermal activity, while the PTZ provides a closer visual view when additional assessment is needed.
Tower-Based Thermal Security for Remote and Critical Sites
Tower Sentry™ is designed for locations requiring wide-area perimeter security where a compact, elevated, solar-powered Thermal Radar™ deployment provides an effective alternative to camera-dense fixed security infrastructure.
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™, detect 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 transportation infrastructure, temporary work zones, cargo areas, remote access points, storage areas, and other locations requiring flexible wide-area 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.
Tower Sentry™ Technical Specifications
More Wide-Area Coverage with Fewer Cameras
Thermal Radar™ provides continuous 360° thermal monitoring from a single elevated Tower Sentry™ platform, helping reduce the number of traditional visible-light and fixed thermal cameras needed to monitor large outdoor areas.
RAPID REDUCED SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Tower Sentry™ brings solar power, battery storage, communications, networking, mounting, and supporting electronics together on one compact platform, helping reduce dependence on extensive fixed security infrastructure.
PURPOSE-BUILT SOLAR-POWERED DEPLOYMENT
Tower Sentry™ provides an elevated, solar-powered way to deploy Thermal Radar™ at remote, unmanned, and infrastructure-limited locations where conventional power or communications may be difficult or costly to provide.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Fewer cameras, installation points, network connections, VMS licenses, infrastructure components, and maintenance locations can simplify the overall perimeter security architecture and help reduce deployment and long-term ownership costs.
Wide-Area Thermal Security Where You Need It with Tower Sentry™
Large and remote properties shouldn't require a camera-dense security architecture simply because conventional infrastructure is difficult or expensive to install.
Tower Sentry™ combines an elevated mounting platform, solar power, battery storage, communications, networking, and remote system management with Thermal Radar's continuous 360° wide-area thermal detection.
The result is a purpose-built approach to thermal perimeter security that can provide earlier threat detection, continuous inside-out perimeter monitoring, simultaneous detection of multiple qualifying events, and optional early fire detection with fireSENSE™, while helping reduce camera count, supporting infrastructure, VMS licensing, installation requirements, and long-term maintenance.
Contact Thermal Radar to connect with an authorized representative and evaluate the right Tower Sentry™ configuration for your property or project.
Frequently Asked Questions About Tower Sentry™ Perimeter Security
What is Tower Sentry™?
Tower Sentry™ is a rugged, solar-powered tower platform purpose-built to deploy Thermal Radar™ for wide-area thermal perimeter security. It combines an elevated mast, solar generation, battery storage, communications, networking, remote system management, and supporting electronics into a compact platform for remote, unmanned, and infrastructure-limited environments.
Is Tower Sentry™ a thermal camera?
Tower Sentry™ is the deployment platform; Thermal Radar™ is the thermal detection technology deployed on it. Together, Tower Sentry™ and Thermal Radar™ provide an elevated, solar-powered approach to continuous 360° wide-area thermal perimeter monitoring.
Is Tower Sentry™ solar-powered?
Yes. Tower Sentry™ includes two 400-watt solar panels and 250 Ah of 24V battery storage in its standard configuration. Additional solar, battery capacity, and supplemental power through an optional EFOY methanol fuel cell are available for applicable deployments.
What does Tower Sentry™ detect?
Detection is performed by Thermal Radar™ deployed on Tower Sentry™. Thermal Radar™ uses passive thermal imaging and onboard analytics to detect qualifying thermal activity including people, vehicles, and optional fire events across the monitored environment.
Can Tower Sentry™ monitor beyond a property's fence?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ uses an inside-out monitoring approach with user-defined detection areas beyond the protected perimeter, at the perimeter, and inside the protected property, subject to terrain, obstructions, environmental conditions, system configuration, and line of sight.
Can Tower Sentry™ detect multiple intruders at the same time?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ can continuously detect and report multiple qualifying threat events occurring in different areas of the monitored environment rather than requiring one camera to remain focused on a single target.
Can Tower Sentry™ detect early fires?
When Thermal Radar™ is equipped with optional fireSENSE™, a Tower Sentry™ deployment can monitor for developing fire events while continuing to perform thermal intrusion detection. Multiple intrusion events, multiple developing fire events, or fire and intrusion activity can be detected simultaneously.
Can Tower Sentry™ use a PTZ camera?
Yes. Tower Sentry™ can be configured with Hydra™, pairing Thermal Radar™ with a compatible PTZ camera. Thermal Radar™ performs the wide-area detection, while Hydra™ can direct the PTZ toward qualifying detected activity for closer visual assessment.
How is Tower Sentry™ different from traditional security cameras?
Traditional visible-light and fixed thermal cameras typically monitor individual fields of view. Thermal Radar™ continuously rotates to monitor multiple views around the Tower Sentry™ location, allowing large outdoor areas to be monitored with fewer camera locations and potentially less supporting infrastructure.
Does thermal detection work at night?
Yes. Thermal Radar™ detects infrared energy rather than relying on visible light, allowing it to provide thermal detection in complete darkness as well as daylight and most weather conditions, subject to environmental conditions, target characteristics, obstructions, and line of sight.
Can Tower Sentry™ help reduce perimeter security costs?
For appropriate wide-area applications, yes. Thermal Radar's 360° coverage can reduce the number of cameras and installation locations required, while Tower Sentry™ integrates power, communications, networking, mounting, and supporting electronics. Together, these capabilities can reduce infrastructure, VMS licensing, installation, and ongoing maintenance requirements and help lower total cost of ownership.
Where is Tower Sentry™ typically deployed?
Tower Sentry™ is well suited for critical infrastructure, utilities, substations, renewable energy facilities, BESS sites, data centers, industrial properties, oil and gas facilities, transportation assets, remote sites, and other large outdoor environments requiring wide-area thermal perimeter monitoring.