Oil & gas · USA
HoundLight is a solar 4G unit that goes up on a pole in minutes at the lease gate, fence line or pipe yard. It runs on its own encrypted cellular link, so nothing connects to your SCADA or corporate network. It spots people after hours, gives them a verbal warning to leave, flashes blue and red lights and sends the clip to your field team. From the Permian and Eagle Ford to the Bakken and Appalachia.
Most camera projects on oil and gas sites stall at the IT and OT security review. HoundLight never asks for a port, a VLAN or a firewall rule. It doesn't connect to your SCADA or corporate network at all, so your segregation stays intact and there's nothing for IT to approve.
Remote sites rarely have power where the threat is. HoundLight runs on solar with a built-in battery and bolts to a fence, post or gate. No cable runs, no generators to refuel, no tower trailers to tow in and move around.
Where it goes: HoundLight is for perimeters, gates, yards and lease roads outside classified hazardous zones. It is not rated for Class I Div 2, ATEX or IECEx areas.
Three things pushing oil and gas producers to put cameras on remote sites.
41% of oil and gas firms said theft affected their operations in the past year. Among producers hit, 61% lost crude oil, 58% piping, valves and wiring, and 39% equipment.
Dallas Fed Energy Survey, Q3 2025Texas responded in 2025: HB 48 created an organized oilfield theft prevention unit at DPS, SB 494 set up the State Task Force on Petroleum Theft (STOPTheft) at the Railroad Commission, and SB 1806 lets DPS inspect cargo tanks suspected of hauling stolen crude.
Texas TribuneMost leases have no power, no broadband and nobody on site after dark, which is exactly when loads, valves and copper go missing.
Every basin has its own theft patterns, weather and coverage. Pick yours.
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Solar 4G units for the sites power lines don't reach.
Lease road gates
Watch the gate people actually use, and warn off anyone who shouldn't be there.
Tank battery perimeters
Fence-line coverage around tanks, without trenching a single foot of power.

Pipe and laydown yards
Keep eyes on stacked pipe, tools and materials across large open yards.
Saltwater disposal and frac water sites
Monitor unattended water sites that sit far off the main road.

Compressor station fence lines
Cover remote fence lines where running power and broadband is impractical.
Equipment and vehicle yards
Protect parked rigs, pumps, winches and trucks between shifts.
Crude theft usually happens at the tank battery: a truck backs up to the load line at night and leaves with a load nobody ordered. Mount HoundLight on a pole outside the classified area, facing the load-out. After hours it spots a person, switches on its lights, plays a warning in English or Spanish, and sends the clip with the time to your field team. Pair it with SmartReg at the lease gate and every load can be matched to a plate.

ANPR at the lease gate reads every vacuum truck and pickup plate, logs the time and flags vehicles that aren't on your approved list. Reconcile the gate log against your run tickets, and a missing load points to a plate and a time.
See SmartRegFrom a shape in the dark to a record your insurer can read.
Detect
A person shows up after hours.
Deter
Lights, siren and a voice warning — in English or Spanish.
Alert
The clip goes to everyone who needs it at once, from the pumper to the superintendent, by app, text or WhatsApp. Nobody has to pass it on. Anyone who gets the alert can cancel it or escalate it from the Scopis AI app, so a false alarm is closed in seconds and a real one gets help fast.
Record
Every event is logged in Scopis AI for your insurer or the sheriff.
Prefer a monitoring center on watch? 24/7 operator monitoring is available in Texas through a licensed monitoring partner, and in other states on request.
No infrastructure, no fixed address, no problem.
Solar and battery
4G cellular
No trenching or electrician
Moves with the rig or crew
Managed across every site in Scopis AI
HoundLight is not rated for classified hazardous locations. We mount it outside classified zones: gates, fence lines, yards and lease roads.
A theft only becomes a case if you can show who, when and which lease. This is what a single HoundLight event puts in front of an investigator.
Time, lease and pad on every clip
Each event is stamped with the date, the time and the lease or pad name in Scopis AI, so an investigator never has to work out which battery the footage came from.
A plate log you can match to run tickets
SmartReg records every vacuum truck, water haul and pickup at the gate with a photo and a timestamp. Set that beside your run tickets and a missing load points to a plate and an hour.
One record for the claim and the audit
The same event log answers your insurer's questions about what happened, and shows you month by month which leases are being probed before anything goes missing.
Who takes the report in Texas
Operators, drilling contractors and midstream companies running HoundLight across their leases.
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We set up HoundLight at one or two of your gates or tank batteries, wherever you operate, for 30 days. You see every alert in the Scopis AI app as it happens. At the end you get a report of every person detected after hours, so you can decide on real evidence.
Mounts on an existing structure, live in minutes — no power or Wi-Fi needed
English and Spanish voice warnings
Moves to your next lease when you are done

No. HoundLight runs on a solar panel and built-in battery and connects over 4G cellular, so there is no mains power, no generator to fuel and no fixed internet or landline. We test the signal at your site during the survey and tell you before you buy if a location cannot hold a connection.
No IT or SCADA integration is needed. HoundLight runs on its own 4G connection.
HoundLight is not rated for classified hazardous locations, so install it outside the classified zone, e.g. on the perimeter, gate or access road.
Alerts go to several people at once by app, text and WhatsApp, on a schedule you set. Anyone can cancel or escalate from the app.
Yes. Set night crew on nights, day crew on days, or different people for each lease. The record shows who cleared an alert and when, which is what an insurer or the sheriff asks for.
Yes. Voice warnings can be in English, Spanish or your own uploaded recording.
Yes. It's self-contained, with no power, network or civil works needed, so it moves to your next lease.
Yes. It detects people in the dark and switches on its own floodlights when it does, so the clip shows a face or a vehicle rather than a grey blur.
Yes, with SmartReg license plate recognition at the gate. Every vacuum truck, water haul and pickup plate is logged with a photo and a timestamp, vehicles that are not on your approved list are flagged, and the gate log can be reconciled against your run tickets.
Your county sheriff first — oilfield theft is handled at county level across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and North Dakota, so get the report number. In Texas, DPS now runs an organized oilfield theft prevention unit under HB 48, and the Railroad Commission hosts the STOPTheft task force under SB 494. HoundLight clips and SmartReg plate logs give an investigator a time, a plate and a clip for the same event.
Scopis AI flags any unit that goes offline, loses power or stops reporting, so a dark camera never sits unnoticed on a lease. Detection runs on the unit itself, so the event is captured and the clip is sent as soon as the connection is back.
The unit is built for outdoor mounting on fences and poles, and the 30-day pilot runs it through the weather your lease actually gets — dust, wind, heat or a North Dakota winter. If a site has a known problem, such as blowing sand or shade falling on the panel, we plan the mount and solar sizing around it at survey.
A fixed monthly price per unit — from $249 a month in USD on the Essentials plan — with no per-alert fees, plus a fixed-price 30-day pilot so you can test it on your own lease before committing. Current plans are on the pricing page.
No. HoundLight is added where your current cameras cannot go, and any ONVIF-compatible equipment can be brought into the same view in Scopis AI, so your existing VMS and recorders stay in place. There is no rip-and-replace.
HoundLight needs a cellular signal, because that is what replaces the cable. We test it at the survey and tell you honestly whether a pad can hold a connection. If it cannot, we say so before you spend anything rather than sell you a unit that cannot call home.
You do. Access is controlled per user in Scopis AI, every clip keeps its date, time and lease, and processing and storage locations are agreed with you before deployment — North America included. Clips export as files you can hand to your insurer, your counsel or the sheriff.
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