Pole Mounted Security Camera Platform
Power Sentry Series
The Power Sentry Series Gen 3 extends your security infrastructure beyond the built environment, bringing permanent outdoor surveillance to the places traditional building-mounted cameras cannot easily reach.
Designed for perimeters, parking lots, substations, rooftops, light poles, gates, yards, and remote sites, the Power Sentry delivers a professional-grade pole mounted security camera system without requiring major conduit runs or costly fixed infrastructure expansion.
Power Sentry is an engineered power and intelligence platform built to support long-term outdoor deployment. With flexible power configurations, a universal bracket system, and modular support for cameras, lighting, audio, sensors, and network equipment, Power Sentry gives organizations a scalable way to extend visibility wherever security coverage is needed.
From sites with consistent power to locations with no power at all, and everything in between, there is a Power Sentry configuration built for your environment. Each platform is designed to integrate with your existing video management system, helping your team expand coverage without creating another disconnected security silo.
Platform Highlights
Advanced Interactive Dashboard
With MPStatus, teams can monitor platform health, power status, temperatures, connected devices, alerts, and operating conditions remotely. That gives security, facilities, and technical teams better visibility into what is happening in the field.
Remote Recovery
Skip the truck roll. Power Sentry monitors every connected device and automatically power-cycles connected devices when something stops responding. Operators can also trigger a reboot remotely from MPStatus — protecting uptime and eliminating the cost of an unnecessary site visit.
Flexible Power Source
IT-Friendly by Design
Integration-Ready
Power Sentry is built to work with existing cameras, sensors, video management systems, alarm workflows, and monitoring environments. It is designed to extend your security ecosystem, not force a rip-and-replace approach.
Easily Scale and Relocate
Deploy as an individual security asset and add more units as needed. No minimum or maximum units required. Start with one or a few and scale to fit your budget and site needs.
Four Ways to Power Your Site
Most outdoor surveillance platforms assume a clean AC outlet within a few feet. Real sites rarely do. Power Sentry Gen 3 supports four distinct deployment modes so cameras can go where coverage is needed — not just where power is easiest to reach.
Fixed AC Power
Cycled AC Power
Designed for parking-lot lights and streetlights that switch on a schedule. A lithium battery charges when energized and runs the platform when it isn’t — no new electrical work required.
Direct Solar
Built-in 15A charge controller supports up to ~400W of panel input. Optional Victron upgrade extends capacity for sites with higher-load needs while providing full solar telemetry through MPStatus.
Low-Voltage DC feed
Run landscape-grade 24–48 VDC wiring across rooftops or along buildings. No licensed electrician, no permit, no waterproof AC outlet. The result is a faster, lower-cost path to outdoor coverage where running new AC service would otherwise be prohibitive.
Engineered for the Long Term
Power Sentry is engineered for the places where outdoor surveillance cannot afford to be fragile.
Each platform is manufactured in the United States using US-sourced steel, industrial-grade components, powder-coated exteriors, and precision-fit panels designed to stand up to water, dust, corrosion, and long-term field exposure. For public safety, utilities, critical infrastructure, and government agencies, that US-based engineering and manufacturing also provides supply-chain transparency, tighter quality oversight, and direct support from the team that built the platform.
The same attention to detail continues inside the enclosure. The 24V architecture inside Power Sentry is one of the details that helps the platform perform reliably in the field. By delivering the same power with less current than competitor 12V designs, Power Sentry reduces electrical stress, improves efficiency, and gives connected equipment more stable power in demanding outdoor environments.
It is one more example of how Power Sentry is engineered for reliability from the inside out.
Intelligent Power Management
When utility power flickers, most outdoor systems reboot — and a reboot in the middle of a recording is the same as no recording at all. Power Sentry rides through the glitch.
When a real outage hits, intelligent power management preserves your runtime: lower-priority devices are powered down first, the most critical cameras stay live, and connected recording equipment receives a clean shutdown command before the system protects itself. Telemetry keeps reporting back to MPStatus on the last reserves of battery so you always know the state of the site, and an automatic battery lockout protects the cells so the system comes back up cleanly the next morning.
You always maintain a presence — even when conditions don’t cooperate.
Smart Power, Smart Battery
The smart lithium battery option isn’t a passive cell — it streams real-time telemetry directly to the platform: internal temperature, current draw, state of charge, cell balance, and heater status, all visible in MPStatus. A built-in heater inside an insulated battery section keeps it operating in below-freezing climates. Climate-aware logic preserves cell life across geographies, drained deeper in hot environments and protected sooner in freezing ones.
- Real-time telemetry streamed directly to MPStatus
- Internal temperature, current draw, and state-of-charge monitoring
- Climate-aware preservation logic — deeper drain in hot environments, earlier protection in freezing ones
- Automatic battery lockout protects cells from over-discharge damage
- Optional secondary expandable battery pack for critical-infrastructure sites
Self Healing Communications
The control unit on every Power Sentry monitors more than a million data points every day — the health of every connected device, every communication link, every power channel, and every environmental sensor on the platform.
Power Sentry continuously listens for the heartbeat of every device on the local network, it pings each upstream and downstream link to confirm two-way communication, and it verifies its connection to MPStatus in the cloud. If any of those checks goes silent for a configurable interval, the platform automatically cycles power to the suspect device — the radio, the cellular modem, the camera, the router, or the recording computer — and verifies recovery before reporting back to operations.
The result is real-time visibility into every site and a lot fewer trucks rolling for problems that would have fixed themselves. If a tech ever does need to be dispatched, they already know the exact device and the exact failure — so they arrive prepared, not investigating.
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Limitless Technology Integration
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Sentry Series: Additional Platform Options
The Power Sentry platform is part of the Sentry Series of portable, self‑contained mobile surveillance solutions, available in multiple configurations. Regardless of configuration, each platform delivers the same core technologies, software, and customization capabilities to support a wide range of use cases.
ALPR Pedestal
The Automated License Plate Recognition Pedestal System simplifies license plate recognition by positioning cameras at the optimal height and angle for consistent, high‑quality plate captures.
Gate Sentry
Each Gate Sentry is customized to your specific requirements. Units support multiple cameras and motion sensors which trigger recording when cars approach and at close range. Targeted lighting provides safety. Audio options include two-way remote communication and pre-recorded messages to deter intrusion when activated by motion detection or manually in real-time.
Technical Specifications
Enclosure
- 10” L x 11” W x 21” to 55” H *
- Durable aluminum structure
- Flexible modular configuration options
- Thermal controlled enclosure
- Universal mounting brackets
Power
- 120–277 VAC (fixed or cycled)
- 24–48 DC (low-voltage feed)
- Direct solar input via integrated 15A charge controller (~400W); optional upgrade for higher capacity
- 10 individually controllable, individually metered DC outputs
- Up to 4 powered cameras with independent current monitoring
Communications
- Outbound-only TCP to MPStatus on IANA-registered port 4120
- Managed LTE gateway supporting multi-carrier SIM and automatic network failover
- Wi-Fi, point-to-point radio, and primary/secondary connection profiles supported
- GPS via cellular modem or optional puck
Integration
- Camera digital I/O surfaced in supported VMS
- Bidirectional HTTP API
- Expandable dry-contact I/O
- Local alarm groups across multiple units
Security
- Tamper sensor
- Optional security screws
- GPS geo-fencing
- Per-account credential sync for arming/disarming