Awera
For Malls & retail

Give every camera in your store a brain.

Awera watches the CCTV your store already has, spots the incident while it is happening, and hands your staff the clip instead of a shrug the next morning.

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

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

Use cases

What Awera watches for at malls and retail.

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

🤕

Slip & fall

A customer down, with the timestamped clip for the claim.

💧

A spill or hazard on the floor

Flagged before anyone slips on it.

👥

Crowd crush or overcrowding

A zone filling past a safe density.

🔥

Blocked fire exit

An aisle or door obstructed when it must stay clear.

🌙

After-hours smash-and-grab

Movement in the store overnight.

🧳

Unattended bag

A bag left in a public area.

📹

Camera tampering or blackout

A camera covered, turned away, or suddenly blind.

🔥

Fire & smoke

Smoke or flame in view, flagged in seconds.

🚗

Vehicle where it shouldn't be

A vehicle parked in a lane or zone that must stay clear.

💧

Water leak or flooding

A leak spreading in an aisle or the stockroom.

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

A Thursday from the moment the shutter went up.

People in the store, tills open, when it opened and when it was cleaned, and the two times the queue grew long enough to need a second till.

Awera console · Crossroads Mall · unit 12Example figures · the shape of the screen, not a customer's numbers

Thursday in a 24-camera store, one of four.

Crossroads Mall · unit 12 · 24 cameras · 1 of 4 sites
TodayThis site ▾Ask anything…
Metricswhat the cameras count here
In the store now38busiest hour today 17:00 · 52
Visitors today1,140up 9% on last Thursday
Queue at the tills4 waitingavg wait today 1 min 50 s
Staff on the floor5 of 61 in the stockroom

People in the store today, with the routines and automations marked on it

059118now 17:2400:0006:0012:0018:0000:0008:28 Store opened08:31 Opening checks done10:14 Cleaning round done12:06 Busiest so far13:39 Till queue reached 6 → store manager told15:00 2 deliveries received17:02 Till queue reached 6 again → second till opened21:30 Stockroom close22:00 Shutter down
countedroutine doneautomation fireddue later
● LIVEEntrance · CAM-0138 in store · 4 at the tills
  • Shop floor38 people
  • Tills4 waiting · 2 open
  • Aisle 4 (promo end)9 people · dwell 48 s
  • Fitting rooms3 of 4 in use
  • Stockroom1 staff
  • Delivery bayclear
Routineswhat must happen on a schedule, and whether it did

Today 3 of 5

3 of 5 done today · next: Stockroom close at 21:30
  • Store openeddone08:28 · 2 min early
  • Opening checksdone7 of 7 · fire exits, fridges, floor
  • Cleaning rounddone10:14 · aisles 1 to 8 · 22 min
  • Stockroom closedue
  • Shutter downdue

This week

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Opening checks08:30
Cleaning round10:00
Stockroom close21:30
Shutter down22:00
done on timelatemissed, someone was told
Automationswatched all the time, act the moment it happens
WhenThenToday
countMore than 5 waiting at a till→WhatsApp the store managerfired 2×17:02 · second till in 2 min
countUnder 2 staff on the floor with 30+ customers→Alert the supervisorwatchinglast Sat 12:40
eventSpill or hazard on the floor→Alert the floor leadwatchinglast Sat 14:10 · cleared in 7 min
timeShutter still up at 22:15→Call the area managerwatchingnever
eventSomeone slips and does not get up→Call the store managerwatchingnever · watched on all 24 cameras

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

Opened two minutes early, checks done, cleaned by 10:36. 1,140 visitors, 9% up. The tills queued past six twice and a second till was open within two minutes both times. Stockroom close and shutter down are due at 21:30 and 22:00.

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 store manager sees their store. The area manager sees all of them side by side. Head office sees the chain.

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

Forty stores on one login: which opened late, which queued at the tills, which had the spill.

Crossroads Mall24 cameras
High Streetneeds you
Northgate Centre19 cameras
Airport Road22 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 malls and retail ask.

Is there a web dashboard for the store manager, or only a phone app?

Both. The store manager uses the web console in the back office: people in the store now, tills open, the queue, when the store opened, whether the cleaning round happened. The alerts, a till queue past five or a spill on the floor, go to the phone of whoever is on the shop floor, by WhatsApp. Area managers use the same console to look across stores.

Can the area manager see all four stores on one account?

Yes. One account, every store under it, roles for each person. A store manager sees their store. An area manager sees all of them side by side on the All sites screen, opened on time, visitors today, queues, cleaning done, without being able to change a rule in any store. Head office can be given the daily summaries only.

Can it count footfall and tell me how many people are in the store now?

Yes to both, with one honest distinction. People in the store now, at the tills and in an aisle are counted in view and are live. Visitors today is counted at the entrance, which needs a camera with a clear view of the door and drifts a little over a day. A store with one or two entrances gets a good number. A mall unit open on three sides gets per-zone counts instead.

Will it confirm the store opened on time and the cleaning round was done?

Yes. You set the routines: opening checks at 08:30, the cleaning round at 10:00, the stockroom close at 21:30, the shutter down at 22:00. Awera watches for each on the cameras and shows done on time, late or missed for every day of the week. The area manager reads the grid instead of phoning every store on a Monday.

Is it tracking customers or building profiles of them?

No. It counts people and watches for moments: a spill, a queue, a fire exit blocked, the stockroom entered after close. It does not identify shoppers, follow them between visits or keep anything about an individual. The footage stays on your recorder, faces can be blurred on the device before a clip leaves, and who on your team can view what is set by role.

We are in a mall and the cameras were fitted by the landlord's contractor. Will it work?

Usually, yes. The Awera device connects to the recorder in your unit and takes the feeds it already records, from Hikvision, CP Plus, Dahua, Axis and any ONVIF or RTSP camera, whoever installed them. If your cameras record to the mall's central system, we need the feeds from that recorder, which most landlords allow for a tenant's own unit. We confirm this on day one.

Will it flag every busy Saturday as a crowd problem?

No. Busy is what a store is for. It flags the number you set, more than five at a till, more than the safe number in one aisle, and it does so only until the queue clears. A spill is a spill whatever the day. The rules are tuned on your floor during the trial so a good Saturday reads as a good Saturday, not as a list of alerts.

Can it tell us about a spill before a customer slips on it?

That is exactly the case it is built for. A spill or an object on the floor in an aisle reaches the floor lead on WhatsApp with the clip and the aisle named, and the console records how long it took to clear. If someone does go down, that is treated as critical and a person is called rather than messaged. Over a week you see which aisle it keeps happening in.

30 minutes, on footage like yours

Book a demo for malls and retail.

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.