Awera
For Apartments & communities

Give every camera in your community a brain.

Awera watches the CCTV your community already has — gates, towers and amenities — and sends the alert to the right person in seconds, day or night.

Try it on your own cameras for 30 days · nothing to pay before it ends

Apartments & communities, on the cameras already there. Everything in this film runs on your own feeds: no new cameras, no rewiring. Watch with sound

Demo

Awera in 90 seconds — on a real community.

Use cases

What Awera watches for at apartments and communities.

Some of the things it catches in your community, day and night:

🚪

Tailgating at the gate

Two people slipping in on one gate-open, flagged while they're still in the driveway.

🌙

Perimeter breach at night

Someone over the boundary wall after dark.

🧗

Children in unsafe areas

Kids up on the terrace or near the water tank, right by the open edge.

🏊

Pool used after hours

Swimmers past the posted curfew — nobody needs to patrol at night.

😴

Guard asleep or post unmanned

An empty gate post spotted now, not discovered the next morning.

🚑

A resident down

A fall or collapse in a lobby or corridor that needs someone right now.

🚒

Vehicle in the fire lane

A car blocking the one lane that must always stay clear.

🗑️

Illegal dumping

Debris left by the bins — the clip goes straight to the manager.

👁️

Loitering at the entrance

Someone lingering near the lobby or parking with no business there.

🧹

Missed staff rounds

A housekeeping or patrol slot that never happened, caught on camera.

🅿️

Parking misuse

A vehicle in someone else's bay or parked across two spots.

🔓

Basement & pump-room access

Someone in a utility area who shouldn't be there.

📹

Camera tampering or blackout

A camera covered, turned away, or suddenly blind.

🔥

Fire & smoke

Smoke or flame in view, flagged in seconds.

🛑

Blocked fire exit or lane

An escape route or fire lane obstructed.

🧳

Unattended bag or object

A bag or object left where it shouldn't stay.

💧

Water leak or flooding

A leak spreading where it will do damage.

Custom rules

Not on the list? Tell it what to watch.

Add your own checks in plain English — Awera watches for those too.

The console

One Thursday, seen from the estate office.

The gate count, the amenities, whether the night rounds happened, and the one moment the pool got busy.

Awera console · Greenwood ResidencyExample figures · the shape of the screen, not a customer's numbers

Thursday at a 48-camera apartment community.

Greenwood Residency · 48 cameras · 1 of 3 sites
TodayThis site ▾Ask anything…
Metricswhat the cameras count here
Through the gate today412peak 08:00 to 09:00 · 38 visitors
Vehicles in / out today187 / 16423 still inside · 4 visitor cars
Amenities in use nowpool 4 · gym 7play area 12 · clubhouse empty
Guard at the gate post96%of the shift · longest gap 6 min

People at the gate today, with the routines and automations marked on it

01938now 19:5400:0006:0012:0018:0000:0003:06 Night round 2 done06:03 Gate check done08:09 Gate at its busiest09:30 4 visitor cars in14:18 Pool cleaned17:18 Delivery van waited 14 min at the gate19:45 Pool over 12 people → lifeguard alerted22:00 Pool close23:00 Night round 1
countedroutine doneautomation fireddue later
● LIVEMain gate · CAM-046 people · 2 vehicles
  • Main gate6 people · guard present
  • Pool4 people · lifeguard present
  • Gym7 people
  • Play area12 children · 3 adults
  • Basement B22 cars moving
  • Clubhouseempty
Routineswhat must happen on a schedule, and whether it did

Today 3 of 5

3 of 5 done today · next: Pool close at 22:00
  • Night round 2done03:05 · all four blocks · 6 min
  • Gate checkdone06:02 · 48 cameras up · barrier tested
  • Pool cleandone14:10 to 14:40 · pool empty
  • Pool closedue
  • Night round 1due

This week

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Night round 123:00
Night round 203:00
Gate check06:00
Pool close22:00
done on timelatemissed, someone was told
Automationswatched all the time, act the moment it happens
WhenThenToday
countMore than 8 waiting at the gate→WhatsApp the guard supervisorwatchinglast Mon 08:12
timeGuard away from the post over 10 min→Call the guardwatchinglast Tue 03:40
countPool over 12 people→Alert the lifeguardfired 1×19:45 · back to 9 in 4 min
eventVehicle stops in the fire lane over 5 min→WhatsApp the estate managerwatchinglast Tue 23:40 · cleared in 9 min
eventSomeone falls and does not get up→Call the guard, then the managerwatchingnever · watched on all 48 cameras

Today, in one paragraph Highlights · sent at 18:00

A normal Thursday. Both night rounds done, gate checked at 06:02, 412 people through the gate with the peak at 08:10. The pool was cleaned at 14:30 and went over 12 people once in the evening; the lifeguard had it back to 9 in four minutes. Nothing needed you.

Example figures, shaped like a real week. The screens are the product’s own.

The same product, set up for your place.

1 · Your cameras

No rip-and-replace. Awera runs on the CCTV you already have.

2 · The brain

Every feed is understood in plain language and checked against the rules above, 24/7.

3 · The alert

Only what matters reaches your people — in seconds, on WhatsApp or a call.

Teams and sites

One account for every site you run, with a role for each person.

The gate guard sees the gate. The estate manager sees the whole community. The committee sees what it has agreed to see.

A role for each person

Nobody opens footage that is not theirs.

ShiftMgrYou
Their own area✓✓✓
The whole site·✓✓
Every site··✓
Add people··✓

Set once, per person, per site.

Every site on one login

Every block, tower and gate you manage on one login, side by side.

Greenwood Residency48 cameras
Harbour Pointneeds you
Meadow Court22 cameras
Riverside Mews31 cameras

Alerts follow the rota

Until a real person has it.

1
The person on dutycalled 22:14 · no answer
2
Two minutes latermoved down the list
✓
The manager answered22:16 · handled
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FAQ

The questions people running apartments and communities ask.

Is there a web console for the estate office, or is it only a phone app?

Both. The estate manager and the committee use the web console on a laptop in the office: one screen for every camera, the day's events, the gate and pool counts, and whether the night rounds happened. The guard and the manager on the move use the mobile app, which is where the alerts and calls land. Same account, same information, two ways in.

Can the society committee, the estate manager and the guard agency all share one Awera account?

Yes. One account for the community, with roles. The guard sees the gate cameras and the alerts meant for him. The estate manager sees the whole site. Committee members can be given the daily summary and nothing else. If you manage more than one community, all of them sit under one login and you switch between them.

Can it tell me how many people are in the community right now?

It can tell you how many people are in view of a camera right now: at the gate, in the pool, in the play area, in a lobby. Those are live counts. A headcount for the whole community would need counting at every entrance and it drifts through the day, so we do not promise it. Per-area counts are what an estate manager actually uses.

Will it confirm the night round actually happened?

Yes. You set the rounds you expect, say 23:00 and 03:00 across all four blocks, and Awera watches for the guard passing each camera in order. The console shows each round as done on time, late, or missed, for every night of the week. A missed round tells the supervisor the same night, not at the end of the month.

Residents will ask: is it watching them?

It watches for moments, not people. The footage stays on your recorder in the building, as it does today. Only a clip of a moment that needs a look leaves, encrypted, and you can have faces blurred on the device before it goes. Recognising residents' vehicles at the gate is something you switch on and configure. Nothing about a resident is stored unless you have set it up.

Our society has an old DVR and mixed camera brands. Will it work?

Almost certainly. The Awera device connects to the recorder you already have, whether it is a DVR or an NVR, and works with Hikvision, CP Plus, Dahua and effectively any camera that gives an RTSP or ONVIF feed. We check every camera on day one of the trial. Nothing is ripped out and there is no rewiring.

Will the guard get woken up for every cat and delivery scooter?

No. The rules are tuned to your gate and your hours. A scooter at 14:00 is normal and goes nowhere. A vehicle sitting in the fire lane for five minutes reaches the manager. Someone at the wall at 2 am rings the guard. On the rare critical event a person still makes the final call, and the rules keep being adjusted through the trial until the noise is gone.

Can it stop vehicles blocking the fire lane?

It cannot move the car, but it can end the waiting. The moment a vehicle has sat across the fire lane past the time you allow, the manager gets a WhatsApp with the plate and the clip, and the console records how long it took to clear. Most communities find the average clear time drops once drivers know the lane is watched.

30 minutes, on footage like yours

Book a demo for apartments and communities.

We show Awera running on a place like yours, map your top scenarios to the console, and give you an indicative price for your camera count. Then, if you want it, a 30-day trial on your own cameras.