PRIVATE, CLOUD-FREE, INTELLIGENT CAMERA SECURITY
AI security solution that keeps your private data in your control.
EspialNVR is a small box that sits in your house. Your cameras record to it, it can recognize the faces of the people who live there, and you watch everything from a phone app. No cloud account, no monthly fee, and no footage sent to a company you've never met.
Front door
RTSP
Backyard
RTSP
Hallway
RTSP
EspialNVR
Records, recognizes, and streams — all on the device
Cloud upload: off
The problem
Home security became surveillance-as-a-service.
Buy a camera today and you're really signing up for someone else's data center — and their monthly bill.
Your footage is someone else's product
Mainstream cameras stream your family's most private moments to a corporate cloud — indexed, retained, and governed by a policy you didn't write.
Security behind a subscription
Recording, history, and even basic features are metered monthly. Stop paying and the hardware you bought stops being a security system.
Recognition you can't switch off
Cloud AI decides who your family is, whether you asked or not. There is no 'off' that actually means off.
What it is
A security system that lives in your home, not a data center.
EspialNVR pairs a small on-premises device with a phone app. It watches, records, and recognizes — and when you don't want recognition, switching it off is a supported, first-class configuration, not a downgrade.
On-device object detection
People, vehicles, and animals detected in real time by the on-board AI processor. Every frame is analyzed locally.
Local facial recognition
Identifies enrolled household members on-device. Multi-frame voting minimizes false matches; uncertain faces default to unknown.
Low-latency live view
Simultaneous streams from every camera, served straight from the device, plus playback and scrubbing of recorded events.
Native mobile apps
Android app available now with live view, playback, and setup. iOS and iPadOS in development.
Capabilities
Everything runs on the box.
Live view, recording, AI, and app control all work on your local network. Internet is optional — and footage, faces, and camera lists are never stored in the cloud.
Edge hardware
Runs on hardware you own
Auto-detects its AI accelerator at boot and picks the best backend. Re-discovers networks, cameras, and radios on every boot, so it can be set up fast at new or off-grid sites.
- Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-10H
- Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-8
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
Flexible networking
Its own camera network
Hosts a dedicated Wi-Fi network for cameras, isolated from your router and the internet — while joining your home Wi-Fi or Ethernet on a separate radio.
- Self-hosted access point for cameras
- Joins existing Wi-Fi or Ethernet
- Direct cable setup — no router required
Smart home
Cameras that trigger your home
Every detection is published to Home Assistant over MQTT, ready to switch on lights, play announcements, or run your own automations.
- Control lights, plugs, and speakers in the same app
- Motion-triggered recording with automatic storage cleanup
- Full PTZ, presets, and image tuning for your cameras
Integrations
Your home reacts to your presence.
Bring your own cameras and connect the smart devices you already have — all controlled locally, from the same app.
Home Assistant
Embedded on the device. Detections publish as MQTT events to drive any automation.
Matter
Commission Matter lights, plugs, and switches over Bluetooth — on/off, brightness, and color.
Google Nest & Cast
Auto-discovers Nest speakers and Cast devices to push announcements and control volume.
ONVIF & RTSP cameras
Works with standard IP cameras via automatic discovery and credential validation.
Why EspialNVR
Why now — and why it's hard to copy.
The technology just crossed the line
On-device AI is finally good enough
Modern edge accelerators run real object detection and face recognition — not just motion blobs — on a Raspberry Pi or NVIDIA Jetson-class board. The technical excuse for shipping video to the cloud is gone.
Privacy as architecture, not policy
Optional by design, not by settings page
Recognition and AI captioning can be fully switched off and the product stays whole. Privacy-conscious customers are a supported class of install, not an edge case — a stance competitors structurally can't copy.
No recurring cost center
The whole stack is owned
Hardware, software, and app are one stack with no per-camera cloud bill behind it. The business model doesn't depend on renting customers access to their own footage.
How it works
Pipeline encrypted end-to-end
Camera
Off-the-shelf RTSP cameras on a local network stream to the NVR — no internet connection required
On-device recording
Motion-triggered clips are recorded and organized locally - the recordings never leave the device without your permission
On-device recognition
The NVR's AI pipeline scrutinizes household members from unknown strangers, and triggers smart devices or alarms accordingly — strictly optional
Your phone
The app talks to exactly one device, your NVR box. Data flows directly to your phone over an end-to-end encrypted relay.
Every step happens inside your home, on hardware you own. Nothing is uploaded to make any of it work.
Built to keep running
Security that doesn't stop when things go wrong.
Traditional cameras lose power and stop recording during a power or internet outage. EspialNVR is engineered around the assumption that infrastructure fails.
Rides out power outage
Built-in battery backup keeps recording when the power goes out — the moment a security system matters most.
Survives your Wi-Fi going down
The box hosts its own LTE network, so cameras keep recording, and live-stream remains accessible even when the router or the internet drops.
Reports its own health
NVR's power, battery, storage, and network state can be monitored and recorded in real-time on the app — you will always know the state of your security system.
Where it stands
A working prototype + deployable on your own hardware.
The EspialNVR prototype provides a tightly integrated and reliable device that is plug-and-play for the end consumer...
... but the software can be deployed on any compatible consumer device, it's yours to play with.
Working today
- Multi-camera live view, motion recording, and mobile playback
- On-device object detection and facial recognition
- Home Assistant, Matter, Google Cast, and ONVIF integrations
- Runs on Raspberry Pi 5 (Hailo-10H / Hailo-8) and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
- Native Android app with guided face enrollment
Next
- Remote access from anywhere, encrypted end-to-end through an Espial relay
- iOS and iPadOS apps
- Recognition accuracy tuning against real-world enrollment
Principles
Rules the product won't break.
Your data stays yours
Footage and identities live on hardware in your home. There is no server-side copy to breach, mine, or subpoena.
Recognition you can switch off
AI features are optional by design. Off is a supported, polished configuration — the product never treats privacy as a downgrade.
Answers, not thresholds
The system tells you what matters — who's at the door, battery low, recording stopped — in plain language, never raw numbers to interpret.
Nothing requires a subscription
Every feature works because the hardware is yours. There is no monthly meter between you and your own security system.
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