THE HARDWARE
The specification.
What is bolted to the machine. Where a figure is not on this page, it is because nobody has measured it on a UK yard yet, and we would rather tell you that than print it.
| Body | Four wheels, steel body, Outwarden livery on both sides. Built and driven under remote control by a Ukrainian robotics team before the security version existed. |
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| Mast | Camera head carried at 1.6 m, above car roofs and above the rows a fixed camera cannot see past. |
| Mast camera | Pan and tilt, driven by the operator. Recognition distances for a face and a number plate are measured on your yard, under your lighting, on the first nights of the pilot. |
| Body cameras | All round, for driving and for close-up video. |
| Light | White light and infrared on the mast, to 30 m. |
| Audio | Recorded warnings, a siren and a strobe, played on your control room's instruction. The robot does not record audio from the site. |
| Connectivity | Two independent 4G/5G links on two networks. |
| Power | Charging station on the yard, one 230 V socket. The robot returns to it between jobs. |
| Safety | Stops on its own and waits if the link drops. Emergency stop on the body. Geofenced: it cannot leave the fenced site. |
| Weather | Built for streets, not warehouses: rain, snow and frost are normal working conditions. It is not made to drive through standing water; the operator steers round deep puddles and flooded ground. In deep snow or ice patrols are shortened and the robot stays on its station; alarm checks continue on passable routes. |
| Mass and speed | 45 kg. Patrols at up to 9 km/h, walking pace on the check itself. Dimensions go to your site manager in writing before delivery, with the safe-stop and emergency-stop test we run on site. |
FITTING IT IN
Your yard.
Your control room.
Two lists worth checking before you spend any more time: what the site has to provide, and what the robot plugs into.
What your yard provides
If all six are true, the yard fits. If one is not, say so on the call and we will tell you straight away whether it is workable.
| Power | One 230 V socket within reach of the charging station. |
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| Mobile signal | 4G or 5G on the yard. We check your coverage before the pilot. |
| Ground | Hard-standing. We walk the route with you and mark anything the robot should not cross. |
| A fence | The robot is geofenced to the site and never leaves it. |
| Installation | One day. No cabling, no building work, nothing mounted on your building. |
| Reach | One robot reaches about 100 m from where it stands. Larger yards take more than one; we work that out from your layout. |
What it plugs into
Nothing here is a project. It uses the interfaces your control room already runs.
| Video out | ONVIF and RTSP. |
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| Alarms in | From your cameras, your detectors or your ARC, by API, e-mail or phone — whichever your control room already uses. We confirm your setup before the pilot. |
| Where video lives | Servers in the UK or the EU. |
| Who can see it | Operators have view-only access under UK GDPR transfer terms signed before any live video. Every access is logged. |
| Retention | Follows your policy. A DPIA is available for review. |
| What comes back | Clips time-stamped and kept in their original format, and a morning report: how many patrols, how many alarms checked, how many vans sent. |
LIMITS AND UNKNOWNS
What it will not do.
The limits are deliberate. Every one of them is easier to live with than the alternative, and all of them are in the contract.
Limits
None of these change during a pilot.
- It does not drive itself. A person drives every patrol and every check. There is no navigation stack to fail at three in the morning.
- It does not chase, catch or touch anyone. It puts a light and a camera on the spot, and that is all.
- It never leaves the fence. Geofenced to the site, on private premises only.
- It never calls the police. Only your ARC does that, through your URN, after a person in your control room has seen the picture.
- It escalates nothing by itself. The first two weeks of every pilot run in shadow mode: the robot patrols and checks, your team watches, nothing is escalated automatically.
- It does not replace your cameras or your guarding company. It gives them a close look before they send anyone.
- It stops if the link drops and waits, and the operator is told. Status stays on screen.
- It is not for sale. Service only — that way keeping it running every night is our problem, not yours.
Measured on your yard, not here
These depend on your surface, your layout, your lighting and your weather. Printing an average would be worse than useless, so we measure them during the pilot and put the figures in your report.
| How long a patrol takes | Measured on your route during the pilot. |
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| Face and plate distance at night | Measured on your yard, under your lighting, on the first nights. |
| Blind spots covered | Marked with you on the first day and re-checked at the end of the 30 nights. |
| Alarms checked, vans saved | Counted every night and totalled in the morning report. |
| Winter behaviour | Recorded on your surface, not modelled. Patrols shorten in ice; alarm checks continue on passable routes. |
Leave your number and an engineer rings you for 2 minutes to see whether Outwarden fits your yard. If it does, the first 30 nights are free and the figures above come from your own site.