Applications / Security
Surveillance Integrity & Camera Tampering
Detects when a camera is moved, covered, defocused, obstructed or goes dark, and reports which zones have stopped being observed and for how long.
See it in action
A covered lens, flagged the minute the view changes
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What it detects
A camera estate is only as useful as the fraction of it still looking at the right thing. Fogsphere monitors the feeds themselves and surfaces the ones that have degraded.
Lens covering and spraying
Identifies a lens covered, taped, sprayed or blocked, and raises the event against the specific camera and the zone it was covering.
Field-of-view shift
Detects a camera knocked, rotated or repositioned so that it no longer frames the zone it was commissioned for.
Physical obstruction
Flags stored material, parked vehicles, stacked pallets, scaffold and vegetation that have grown into or been placed across a camera’s view.
Defocus and image degradation
Surfaces gradual blur, condensation, dirt build-up and focus drift that quietly reduce a feed to unusable long before anyone notices.
Signal loss and blackout windows
Logs feeds that drop, freeze or stall, with the start and end of every blackout window recorded per camera.
Night illumination failure
Detects failed IR illuminators, dead area lighting and persistent glare that leave a zone effectively unobserved after dark.
Doors and gates left open in blind spots
Correlates open-door and open-gate events with the cameras covering them, so an obstruction and an open access point are surfaced together.
Correlated physical and cyber anomalies
Flags camera tampering, gate anomalies and unusual area access occurring in the same window as an OT or network event, for joint review.
Coverage-gap reporting
Reports which zones lost observation, when, for how long, and which camera was responsible — as a running record, not a one-off alarm.
Estate-level integrity trend
Tracks recurring tamper and obstruction events by camera, area and shift, so persistent blind spots become visible as a pattern.
Where it applies
Camera tampering is called out explicitly in the chemical, manufacturing, logistics, power-generation and food-defence security sections, and is a named evidence hook in TAPA FSR facility-security programmes.
How it works
Edge inference on the cameras you already have
Integrity checks run on the same edge inference that handles detection, comparing each frame against the reference view the camera was commissioned with. No additional hardware is required.
Zones, thresholds and schedules you configure
Set the reference view, the tolerance for scene change, and the blackout duration that counts as an outage, per camera. Cameras on moving structures or seasonal scenes can be given wider tolerances.
Every event carries its own evidence
Each detection is logged with a timestamp, the camera and zone it came from, and a short clip. The record can be reviewed, exported or attached to an investigation without trawling through hours of footage.
Feeds the systems already in place
Events surface in Fogsphere Manager and route outward to the VMS, access-control platform, control-room wallboard, ticketing queue or messaging channel operators already watch.
Risk & control objective
The control objective is knowing the observation estate is actually observing. Most security programmes assume camera coverage as a constant, then discover after an incident that the relevant feed had been blurred, blocked or offline for weeks.
The failure modes are mostly mundane rather than malicious. A pallet stacked in front of a dock camera, a lens fogged after a wash-down, an illuminator that stopped working in October, a PTZ left parked at a preset. Deliberate tampering matters, but it is the everyday degradation that removes most of the coverage.
For audited sites the same record does double duty. CCTV tamper evidence and continuity of coverage are explicit expectations under facility-security and supply-chain frameworks, and a timestamped log of every outage and obstruction is what those reviews ask for.
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Find out how much of your camera estate is still watching
We will run integrity checks across a sample of your feeds and show you the coverage gaps as a timestamped record.