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The Nexovia Hive.

One appliance. It takes a network port and a power outlet, and it turns every camera behind it into something that understands what it is looking at.

4–32Streams per Hive
23msInference per frame
1×Ethernet uplink
0Inbound ports

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Why hardware at all

Because uploading video to think about it was always the wrong trade.

A cloud-analytics product has to push your video off site before it can tell you anything. That means paying for the upload, waiting for the round trip, trusting someone else with your footage, and going blind the moment the connection drops — which, in a small business, is exactly when you would most like it to be working.

Putting a GPU on site removes all four problems at once. The Hive is not a compromise we made to save bandwidth. It is the reason the latency budget is 23 milliseconds instead of however long your uplink feels like taking today.

Inside the chassis

Four jobs, one box.

Hardware decode

Dedicated video decode silicon unpacks H.264 and H.265 without burning general compute, so the GPU is free to do the part that matters.

9ms budget

GPU inference

A dedicated AI analytics processor running hardware-optimized models. Detection, pose and tracking across every enabled stream, concurrently.

23ms budget

Event engine

Zones, schedules, dwell thresholds and deduplication turn a stream of detections into the handful of events a human should actually see.

4ms budget

Secure uplink

An outbound-only encrypted tunnel carries events and remote viewing. Nothing needs a port forward, and no camera is ever exposed to the internet.

8ms push budget
Technical specification

Under the hood.

Processing
Edge AI, on-device. A dedicated AI analytics processor with on-board GPU. No cloud inference in the detection path.
EDGE
Camera protocol
RTSP · ONVIF. Compatible with effectively every major IP camera brand. Main or sub-stream, selectable per camera.
UNIVERSAL
Codecs
H.264 and H.265, hardware-decoded.
HW DECODE
Streams
4 to 32 concurrent feeds per Hive, depending on model, resolution and the detection classes enabled per camera.
SCALES BY TIER
Latency
Under 50ms end to end — 6ms ingest, 9ms decode, 23ms inference, 4ms event evaluation, 8ms push.
< 50 MS
Models
Swappable per camera. Portable ONNX models, compiled to the processor’s native engine format. New detection classes deploy over the tunnel without a site visit.
OTA UPDATES
Alert channels
Mobile push · SMS · webhook · SIP call · on-site strobe or speaker trigger · control-room display.
MULTI-CHANNEL
Networking
Single Gigabit Ethernet uplink to your existing switch. Outbound tunnel only — no inbound port forwarding required.
OUTBOUND ONLY
Local storage
Onboard storage for sealed event clips with pre-roll and post-roll. Your existing NVR keeps handling continuous recording.
EVENT CLIPS
Offline operation
Detection, rules and clip sealing continue with no internet. Events queue locally and sync when the link returns.
RESILIENT
Install
You plug it in — roughly 10 minutes. One free switch port and a power outlet. Zones and rules are then configured remotely over the tunnel.
NO SITE VISIT
Health telemetry
Uptime, device temperature, CPU, memory, storage and per-camera online state, visible in the console and the app.
MONITORED

Exact stream ceiling, storage and thermal envelope vary by Hive model. We size the unit against your camera list before quoting — send it over.

Compatibility

If it streams RTSP, it works.

There is no approved-vendor list to check yourself against. The Hive consumes standard IP camera streams, which means the twelve-year-old dome in the corner of your stockroom is as usable as anything you could buy tomorrow. Analogue cameras already running through an encoder or a hybrid DVR work too, as long as that box emits RTSP.

  • Any ONVIF Profile S camera
  • Any camera exposing a reachable RTSP URL, even without ONVIF
  • Analogue cameras behind an encoder or hybrid DVR that outputs RTSP
  • Mixed-vendor sites — brands do not have to match
  • PoE and separately-powered cameras alike

The honest caveat: model accuracy depends on what the lens can actually see. A camera pointed at a ceiling, or one so compressed that faces are mush, limits what any system can do. We tell you which of your angles are weak before you buy, not after.

The Nexovia Hive arriving on site and joining the existing camera network over one Ethernet run

Which Hive fits your site?

Stream count, resolution and how many classes you want running per camera decide the unit. Make, model and count from your camera list is enough for us to size it.