FourthWatch turns the CCTV you already own into a security system that spots intruders, warns them off and alerts you and your armed response within seconds. No new cameras. No expensive off-site monitoring needed.
Every camera on one screen. An intruder raises an alert, a weapon raises an emergency, and the dog in the garden or the cattle in the paddock are simply logged - so the alerts you get are the ones that matter.
Most systems record everything and alert on nothing useful - or on every cat, cloud and swaying tree. FourthWatch keeps your existing cameras and recorder, and adds the part that was missing: judgement.
Every feature is included on every plan - on the dashboard, the Control Centre and the phone app.
FourthWatch recognises people, vehicles, pets, livestock and weapons on every camera, day and night. People raise an alert, weapons raise an emergency, and animals and vehicles can simply be logged.
Choose per camera what alerts, what is only logged, and which areas to ignore.
Pistols, rifles and knives trigger an emergency straight away - even on a snoozed camera - with a louder alarm on every phone.
Alerts with a photo and a short clip, neighbour help requests with the caller's details and a Call button, your community screen, Ask for help, and linking a neighbour by code. On your own Wi-Fi it keeps working when the internet is down.
Spoken warnings - or your own recorded voice - through the camera's speaker the moment someone is detected, a siren for emergencies, and live two-way talk from the dashboard or phone.
Your armed response one tap away on every phone and the dashboard. On a weapon or SOS: sirens on every camera, an emergency push, and a message to your control room.
Each alert saves a clip that starts a few seconds before the person appeared. Play, scrub and speed it up from History or the phone.
Watch any camera live. The Control Centre is a live wall for a dedicated screen: tiles light up and beep the moment something needs attention.
The dog in the garden and the cattle in the paddock are logged, not alarmed. A person among them still raises an alert.
Having a braai? Snooze one camera or all of them for 15 minutes to 4 hours. Recordings carry on and alerts resume by themselves.
Cameras reconnect by themselves and FourthWatch re-arms after a power cut. With the internet down, every alert still pops up on the PC and reaches the phones on your Wi-Fi.
Footage, detections and camera passwords stay on your property. No cloud video upload, no video-platform subscription, and daily automatic backups.
Share the alerts you choose with neighbours, your community hub and your security company's control room - or tap Ask for help and they all know at once. You decide what is shared and for how long, and video never leaves your property.
Your installer connects FourthWatch to the cameras and recorder you already have - no new cameras and no rewiring.
Choose what each camera watches for, when it is armed, and which areas to ignore.
The moment someone is detected, your phone gets the alert with a photo and clip, and that camera lights up in the Control Centre.
Warn them off through the camera, sound the siren, talk live, or hit SOS to reach your armed response.
Farming communities are targeted because help is far away and every minute counts. FourthWatch connects neighbours, so an alert on one property reaches the people closest to it - straight away.
Join an opt-in hub for your area - a farming community like "Heidelberg Farmers", an estate, or your security company's grid. FourthWatch sets each hub up.
When your FourthWatch raises an alert you've chosen to share, every opted-in neighbour in the hub gets it on their phone at the same moment, with a Call button right on the notification - so they can help before it's too late.
The farm next door isn't in a hub, or uses a different security company? Scan each other's QR code and you're linked directly.
Something wrong, even without an alert? One tap on the PC or phone alerts every neighbour, hub and control room you share with.
Choose exactly what neighbours see when you share an alert, and for how long.
Want trained eyes on your alerts as well? It's optional: apply to your security company to join their control room.
One simple price per camera, per month. The more cameras on a site, the less each one costs, and farms and non-profits pay R69 at any size. Every feature is included and all prices include VAT.
1 to 4 cameras
4 cameras: R356 a month incl. VAT
5 to 12 cameras
8 cameras: R632 a month incl. VAT
13 cameras or more
20 cameras: R1 380 a month incl. VAT
Any number of cameras
6 cameras: R414 a month incl. VAT
For working farms and registered non-profits. Each one is approved by FourthWatch.
Off-site CCTV monitoring in South Africa is typically advertised at R180 to R450 per camera per month. FourthWatch costs R69 to R89, including VAT - on the cameras you already have.
On an 8-camera site that's R9 700 to R35 600 a year back in your pocket.
All prices include VAT. Guide prices per camera per month; your installer confirms the final quote. Market range from advertised South African off-site CCTV monitoring prices (2025-26) - what each service includes varies.
If your camera or recorder can stream video over your network (RTSP), FourthWatch can watch it. Old coaxial DVRs work as long as the recorder is on the network.
Any camera with a video stream, found automatically on your network.
Each recorder channel becomes its own FourthWatch camera - ideal for the system you already paid for.
Plug one in for a quick extra view, a reception desk or a test.
| Typical CCTV | FourthWatch | |
|---|---|---|
| Uses the cameras you already have | Often brand-locked | ✓ Any IP camera, NVR or DVR |
| Knows a person from a pet | × Any movement alerts | ✓ People, pets, livestock and weapons |
| Weapon detection | × | ✓ Pistols, rifles, knives |
| Speaks to intruders | × | ✓ Warnings, siren and live talk |
| Armed response escalation | × | ✓ SOS, sirens and control-room alerts |
| Works when the internet is down | Usually not | ✓ Alerts on the PC and phones over your own Wi-Fi |
| Where your video goes | Often a cloud server | ✓ Stays on your property |
| Monthly cost per camera | R180 – R450 for off-site monitoring | ✓ From R69 incl. VAT |
Your clients' cameras record but never warn anyone. Add FourthWatch in an afternoon, sell it under your own name and packages, and build income that comes in every month.
That's R30 per camera, every month the client stays with you, at any number of cameras. A farm with 16 cameras, for example, brings in R480 a month.
All amounts include VAT. Each Farm and Non-profit sale is approved by FourthWatch, so these packages stay with working farms and registered non-profits. On your own packages you set the price, and with it your margin. What you earn depends on your clients and pricing.
Clients, licences, your team, monitoring, billing and debtors - with help on every screen.
Alerts from your monitored clients arrive live with a siren, and keep flashing and sounding until someone handles them. One click shows the photo, address, armed response and emergency contacts. Acknowledge, add notes and resolve.
You set the monthly monitoring price, and it is invoiced automatically.
Install, test - even an unusual camera - and demo FourthWatch on site before the client buys. The trial stops by itself.
Monthly invoices for all clients, chosen clients, or none if you bill elsewhere - with your logo and bank details. Statements, payment recording and reminders, with VAT handled.
See who owes what and for how long. Overdue reminders email themselves, and a non-payer can be suspended in one click or automatically after the days you choose - their FourthWatch locks with your message. Month-by-month profit and spreadsheet exports.
An offline alert the moment a client's FourthWatch stops checking in. Info bubbles and an FAQ on every screen, and a Help button straight to FourthWatch support.
Every staff member gets their own sign-in: owners, managers, billing, technicians who never see prices, and control-room staff who only ever see the control room.
Block, suspend, reinstate or upgrade, and an online PC follows within a second. A blocked or overdue site keeps basic protection - it still spots people and alerts - so nobody is left exposed.
The desktop app, the phone app (with a QR code to scan) and the GPU add-on, downloadable from your portal. Push alerts come with every licence - no Firebase or app setup on any site.
Tell us about your company and the areas you cover. Want to look around first? We can open a demo portal for you to click through yourself.
We set up your reseller portal and walk you through it, with free 24-hour installation keys for site demos.
Show FourthWatch working on the client's own cameras, then put them on the package that fits.
No. FourthWatch works with the cameras and recorder you already have, as long as they can stream video over your network (RTSP). That includes most IP cameras, NVRs and many older DVR systems.
From R69 to R89 per camera per month, including VAT, depending on how many cameras are on the site: R89 each for 1 to 4 cameras, R79 for 5 to 12 and R69 for 13 or more. Working farms and registered non-profits pay R69 per camera at any size - each one is approved by FourthWatch. Every feature is included. Your installer confirms the final quote.
A FourthWatch hub - a Windows PC that stays on at the property - and an Android phone for the app. Your installer sets it all up.
Not for alerts at home. The FourthWatch hub pops up every alert on the PC, and phones on your Wi-Fi get them straight from the hub - the app stays on your Wi-Fi by itself, even when the router has no internet. Push notifications to phones away from home come with your licence, with nothing to set up, and use the internet when it is there.
You are never simply switched off. While it is sorted out, FourthWatch keeps the basics running: it still spots people, alerts the PC and your phones, and arming and SOS keep working. Everything else pauses until then.
Nowhere. Footage, recordings, detections and camera passwords stay on your property. There is no cloud video service.
Weapon alerts always go out, even while a camera is snoozed, on a louder alarm channel. You can have every camera with a speaker sound its siren and your control room alerted automatically.
No. Pets and livestock are recognised and can simply be logged, and trees, shadows and passing headlights are not people. People always alert, and you can mark areas to ignore, like a busy road.
An opt-in way for neighbours to look out for each other. Join a community hub for your area - set up by FourthWatch for a farming community, an estate or a security company - or link directly with a neighbour by scanning each other's QR code, even if they use a different security company. When you share an alert, everyone opted in gets it on their phone at once, with a Call button on the notification.
Yes. Tap Ask for help on the PC or the phone and every neighbour, hub and control room you share with is alerted at once. Neighbours can answer "I'm responding", so you know help is on the way.
Only what you choose: your site name, location, contact number, which camera and, if you like, a still photo. You also choose how long sharing stays on - a day, a week, a month or until you stop. Video never leaves your property.
Yes, if they offer it. Apply to your security company and their control room sees your alerts as they happen, calls you and sends armed response - with still photos only if you allow them. Your security company sets the monthly price for monitoring.
You sell FourthWatch under your own packages and prices, and run clients, licences, monitoring, invoicing and debtors from your own reseller portal. On FourthWatch's Farm and Non-profit packages, for example, the client pays R69 per camera a month at any size and you pay FourthWatch R39, so you keep R30 per camera every month (all amounts include VAT). Free 24-hour installation keys let you demo on site first, and we can open a demo portal for you to try before you apply.
Yes. Your installer can put FourthWatch on your own cameras with a free 24-hour installation key, so you see it working on your property first. The trial stops by itself.
FourthWatch is sold and installed by security companies. Ask us using the chat bubble and we will put you in touch with a reseller near you - or become one yourself.
See FourthWatch detect, warn and alert on a real camera feed - and how it would work on your property or for your clients.