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Oilfield security that needs no power and never touches your network.

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.

Your OT network stays exactly as it is

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.

No power, no trenching, no towers

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.

Why operators are adding cameras

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 2025

Texas 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 Tribune

Most leases have no power, no broadband and nobody on site after dark, which is exactly when loads, valves and copper go missing.

Security by basin

Every basin has its own theft patterns, weather and coverage. Pick yours.

Operating in the Anadarko, DJ, Haynesville, Powder River, San Juan or Uinta? Talk to us.

Where HoundLight goes

Solar 4G units for the sites power lines don't reach.

Pumpjacks in dry grass beside a lease road

Lease road gates

Watch the gate people actually use, and warn off anyone who shouldn't be there.

Oilfield tank battery with catwalk at dusk

Tank battery perimeters

Fence-line coverage around tanks, without trenching a single foot of power.

ImageDeep engineer surveying a laydown yard of stacked pipe and materials

Pipe and laydown yards

Keep eyes on stacked pipe, tools and materials across large open yards.

Row of white tanker trailers parked on a gravel lot

Saltwater disposal and frac water sites

Monitor unattended water sites that sit far off the main road.

Solar-powered ImageDeep camera unit guarding a remote razor-wire fence line

Compressor station fence lines

Cover remote fence lines where running power and broadband is impractical.

Heavy equipment parked in a yard beside storage tanks

Equipment and vehicle yards

Protect parked rigs, pumps, winches and trucks between shifts.

Watch the load-out, not just the gate

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.

HoundLight solar 4G unit with floodlights, siren and solar panel

Every truck at the gate, on record

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 SmartReg
Stainless vacuum tanker trailer parked on a gravel yard

How it works

From a shape in the dark to a record your insurer can read.

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Detect

A person shows up after hours.

2

Deter

Lights, siren and a voice warning — in English or Spanish.

3

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.

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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.

Built for the oilfield

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.

Evidence that holds up when you file

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

  • — Your county sheriff takes the report. Get the case number for the insurance claim.
  • — Texas DPS runs an organized oilfield theft prevention unit, created by HB 48 in 2025.
  • — The Railroad Commission hosts the STOPTheft task force, set up by SB 494 in 2025.
  • — SB 1806 lets DPS inspect cargo tanks suspected of hauling stolen crude.
How Permian operators use this

Trusted on US oil & gas sites

Operators, drilling contractors and midstream companies running HoundLight across their leases.

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Try it on your lease: 30-day pilot

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

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HoundLight solar 4G unit with floodlights, siren and solar panel

Oilfield questions

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.

Protect your leases

Tell us how many gates and sites you need covered — we'll price the whole patch.

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