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See a Live Guard Stop a Real Intrusion

This is the difference between recording a crime and preventing one. Watch a live AV Surveillance guard spot an intruder, call them out by description, and clear the property โ€” in seconds, not minutes.

  • Real-time voice challenge over the camera's speaker
  • Sirens, strobes, and police dispatch in under 30 seconds
  • The intruder leaves before anything is taken
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Another Real Save

Caught After Dark โ€” Before It Became a Crime

Two prowlers, one empty corner, and a guard watching live. A voice out of nowhere calls them out โ€” and they walk. No theft, no damage, no police report to file in the morning.

  • Live eyes on the property the moment someone steps on it
  • A human voice that stops trouble before it starts
  • The kind of save that never makes it onto a claim form
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The Education

Why Your Current Security Is Quietly Losing You Money

The Problem

Most businesses think they're protected. They're not โ€” they're documented. That difference shows up on your P&L as stolen inventory, vandalism repairs, insurance deductibles, and rising premiums.

Agitate

Retail shrink alone hit $94.5 billion in a single year. Vandalism costs businesses $2โ€“$10 billion annually. And when a break-in happens, the average traditional alarm reaches police in about 8 minutes โ€” long enough for a crew to load a truck and be gone. Your "security" didn't protect the asset. It just filmed you losing it.

The Solution

There are three ways to protect a commercial property. Only one actually stops the crime. Here's the honest breakdown:

TYPE A
Traditional CCTV
What it does
Records footage to review later โ€” useful only after the loss has happened.
Cost
Low upfront โ€” but pays you nothing back when you're hit.
The catch
You become the security guard, reviewing tape after the asset is already gone.
Watches your assets get stolen.
TYPE B
On-Site Guards
What it does
One human covers one spot โ€” if awake, on time, and not on break.
Cost
$6,000+ per month, per post โ€” plus the liability you carry.
The catch
Guards get tired and distracted and can't be everywhere. High turnover, real liability.
Expensive, limited, and only human.
TYPE C
AV Live Virtual Guard
What it does
Detects, then a live guard speaks to the intruder and stops the crime in progress.
Cost
A fraction of one guard's salary โ€” covering far more ground.
The advantage
100% alert. Never sleeps. Police contacted in under 30 seconds via live voice challenge.
Stops the crime before it starts. โœ“

Type A documents your loss. Type B is a payroll line that still can't be everywhere. Type C is the only model built to keep the loss from happening at all โ€” for less than the cost of a single on-site guard.

How It Works

Detection Is the Old Standard. Intervention Is Ours.

1

AI Cameras Detect

Motion-activated AI edge cameras stream to a local smart hub that processes 50+ images per second and flags a real human threat in seconds โ€” not a raccoon, not a passing car.

2

Live Guards Engage

A trained guard is watching the moment a person steps on your property and speaks through two-way audio: "You by the loader โ€” you're on private property and being recorded. Leave now." Being called out live ends most intrusions on the spot.

3

Instant Response

If they don't leave, the guard triggers sirens and strobes and contacts your local police โ€” in under 30 seconds, while the intruder is still on camera and on site.

AV Surveillance AI camera and local smart hub
The Hardware

Pro-Grade Cameras, a Local AI Brain, and Two-Way Audio

AI edge cameras in 2K/4K, an on-site smart hub that processes 50+ images a second, built-in speakers and sirens for live voice intervention, and a mobile app so you can see and speak to anyone on your property yourself. Hardwired PoE for stability, wireless bridge-to-bridge to reach anywhere on the property โ€” or fully solar where there's no power at all.

Conventional alarms reach police in about 8 minutes. We do it in seconds.
Eight minutes is enough time to clear out a job site. Thirty seconds isn't.
Who We Protect

Built for the Properties Criminals Target Most

Every property has different blind spots. Pick yours โ€” we'll show you exactly how we lock it down.

Why AV Surveillance

30 Years Protecting Property the Big Companies Treated as Account Numbers

I'm Shad Breaux, founder of AV Surveillance. I've spent 30 years in electronic surveillance โ€” a degree in Electronic Repair, a stack of certifications, and years inside some of the largest security companies in the industry. I learned exactly how they operate: customers are account numbers, and "service" means a recording you review after you've already been hit.

I started AV Surveillance in 2009 to do the opposite. We design, install, and monitor active-deterrence systems that stop crime in progress โ€” backed by live guards and three decades of field experience. When you work with us, you're not an account. You're protected like family.

Shad Breaux, founder of AV Surveillance
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