Every camera in your society, watched.
Pehra watches the CCTV cameras your society already has, live, and tells your security team what matters: a graded alert on Telegram, a gate log of every vehicle, and a register of staff arrivals.
Free for 2 cameras, with the cameras you already have. The demo needs no sign in. See pricing
PoolAlert
Main gateLive
Service gateLive
ParkingLive
LobbyLive
No picture since 9:58 PM
BasementOffline
- Critical
Someone in the pool after hoursPool, 10:42 PM
- Warning
Camera offlineBasement, 9:58 PM
Dozens of cameras. Nobody watching.
Most societies record everything and look only after something goes wrong. Four problems come up again and again in the news and on the ground.
Nobody watches live
In most small societies nobody watches the CCTV live. At best a busy guard glances at one monitor, and footage is looked at only after something goes wrong. People watching nine screens miss about 60% of what happens on them, against 20% on four.
Sources: Studio Matrx, Ambient, citing Sulman 2008
Gate apps log what guards type
Visitor apps record what the guard taps, not what the camera saw. MyGate's own help page says the final authority rests with the security guard, and one Noida society handles over 1,000 deliveries a day on 12 hour shifts.
Sources: MyGate help, ThePrint
Pools left unattended
In Gurugram in July 2024 a 5 year old drowned in a society pool while the lifeguards were reportedly busy on their phones. In Bengaluru a 7 year old drowned after the guard was moved and the pool was left unattended.
Sources: The Tribune, Deccan Herald
Dead cameras nobody notices
At one Kharar society only 150 of 350 cameras worked. In Bhopal, CCTV had not worked for five years when a man fell into a lift shaft; he was found 10 days later.
Sources: The Tribune, ETV Bharat
What Pehra does
It watches the cameras you choose, all the time, with OpenCV on our servers, and speaks up only when something matters.
One control room
Every camera on one wall, and one feed of what needs attention. Nothing else on the screen.
Any watch in plain words
Type what to look for. Pehra shows what it can watch, what it cannot, and how often it would have alerted yesterday.
Graded alerts on Telegram
Critical alerts reach your security group at once, with a picture and a reason. Warnings wait on the dashboard.
A gate log of every vehicle
Cars, cabs and two wheelers in and out, with the time, a picture and the plate when it can be read.
A staff register from consented faces
Maids, drivers and cooks who agree are enrolled from a few photos, and when they were first and last seen is noted each day.
Camera health
A camera that goes offline, is covered, blurred or moved raises an alert instead of failing quietly.
Any watch, in plain words
Write it the way you would tell a guard. Pehra turns it into a watch on one camera or on every camera, and says plainly what it cannot watch, with the nearest thing it can.
Before a watch goes live it runs over the last day of footage, so you see how often it would have alerted. Ages are never guessed, so pool watches are about situations, not about who is in the water.
What should Pehra watch for?
Tell me when a child is alone at the pool
- Cannot watch
- Whether someone is a child. Pehra never guesses anyone's age.
- Will watch instead
- Anyone alone in the pool zone for 20 seconds
- Camera
- Pool
- Setup
- Draw the pool zone once
- Last 24 hours
- Would have alerted 2 times
- Level
- Critical
Save watch
Alerts that say why
Each alert has a level and a plain reason. A critical one arrives as a single message that updates as things change, so a long situation is one message, not hundreds.
- CriticalSent to your Telegram group at once, and again if nobody acknowledges it.
- WarningShown on the dashboard, and on Telegram if your society turns that on.
- InfoKept as a note in the watch log and on the camera's history, and counted in the 9 AM daily summary.
Anyone in the group can acknowledge an alert or mark it a false alarm, and Pehra counts those taps to show how often each watch is right.
Greenwood Heights securityTelegram group, 6 members
Pehra
Critical: someone in the pool after hours
Pool camera, 10:42 PM
One person in the water and nobody at the lifeguard chair since 10:30 PM.
Faces blurred. The clip opens after sign in.
edited 10:43 PM
Ravi acknowledged at 10:43 PM
Logs that fill themselves
The gate log is written from what the camera saw, not from what someone remembered to type. It sits next to your visitor app and catches what it misses: a cab that stayed too long, a vehicle nobody logged.
The staff register notes when each enrolled worker first comes in and last goes out. Plates are read on a best effort basis, and both logs export to CSV.
| Time | Vehicle | Plate | Way |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:58 AM | Car | MH 12 KD 4471, white plate | In |
| 8:06 AM | Cab | MH 12 TC 2093, yellow plate | In |
| 8:21 AM | Two wheeler | Not read | Out |
| 9:15 AM | Cab | MH 12 TC 2093, yellow plate | Out after 69 min |
Yellow plates mark cabs and other commercial vehicles.
| Name | Work | First seen | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunita | Cook | 7:12 AM | 11:40 AM |
| Ramesh | Driver | 8:05 AM | Still in |
| Lakshmi | Housekeeping | 9:30 AM | 1:15 PM |
Only adult staff who agreed, enrolled from a few photos.
How it starts
Add your cameras
Connect cameras over RTSP, which most IP cameras and recorders offer, or use a laptop or phone as a camera. Say what each one is for: pool, main gate, service gate, parking.
Keep or write watches
Each purpose suggests ready watches. Keep them, or write your own in plain words.
Connect Telegram
Add the bot to your security group and send it a one time code. Critical alerts start arriving there.
Privacy promises
Cameras in a society see families, children and staff every day. These rules are part of how Pehra works, not settings someone can forget.
Adult staff only, by consent
Faces only for adult staff who agree, never children. Residents and visitors are never named.
Pictures, not video, on Telegram
Telegram gets a still picture with faces blurred, unless the person is enrolled staff. Clips stay behind sign in.
Deleted on schedule
Footage is deleted after your plan's days: 7 on Free, 30 on Society.
The AI sees moments, not streams
It sees only the few stills OpenCV has flagged, never the live stream.
Your society decides
Under India's DPDP Act the society is the data fiduciary and Pehra its processor.
A notice at every camera zone
A printable notice for each zone, with its purpose, how long footage is kept and whom to contact.
An aid, not a guarantee
Pehra helps people notice what matters; it does not replace guards or lifeguards, and it does not detect drowning. At the pool it watches for situations: someone in the water after hours, the pool open with nobody at the lifeguard chair, a person still in the water too long. Alerts say possible, and people decide.
Pricing
Pay only for the cameras Pehra watches. Prices exclude GST.
Charged in rupees; dollar amounts are approximate, at ₹94.94 to the dollar (RBI reference rate, 23 October 2026).
Free
Try it on two cameras.
₹0 a month$0 a month
No card needed
- 2 watched cameras
- Footage kept 7 days
- Control room with camera health
- Any watch in plain words
- Graded alerts on Telegram
Society
The cameras that matter, usually 6 to 12.
₹699 a camera a monthabout $7 a camera a month
or ₹6,990 a camera a year, 2 months freeor about $74 a camera a year, 2 months free
- 1 to 49 watched cameras
- Footage kept 30 days
- Control room with camera health
- Any watch in plain words
- Graded alerts on Telegram
- Gate log of every vehicle
- Staff register from consented faces
- Daily summary at 9 AM
Large sites
Malls, schools and townships.
Talk to us
Priced for your site
- 50 or more cameras
- Footage kept as long as agreed
- Control room with camera health
- Any watch in plain words
- Graded alerts on Telegram
- Gate log of every vehicle
- Staff register from consented faces
- Daily summary at 9 AM
- Retention to suit your rules
- Help connecting your cameras
For example, 8 watched cameras on Society cost ₹5,592 a month.about $59 a month. One security guard from a Bengaluru agency costs ₹16,000 to ₹28,000 a month (agency listings).
Pay yearly and get 2 months free.Billing, tax and cancellingRefunds and cancellation
Questions
Do we need new cameras?
No. Most IP cameras and recorders, including Hikvision, CP Plus and Dahua, offer an RTSP stream that Pehra can read. A laptop or phone can join as a camera too. If your recorder can only be reached inside the society, email us and we will help you connect it.
Does it replace our guards?
No. Pehra helps your guards and supervisor notice what matters on cameras nobody can watch all day, and gives the committee a record of what happened.
Who gets the alerts?
The security group your society connects on Telegram, usually the supervisor, the guards and the committee. Not every resident.
Can it identify residents or visitors?
No. It names only adult staff who agreed to be enrolled. Everyone else is a person, a car or a cab.
Where is the footage kept, and for how long?
On Amazon Web Services in Mumbai, India. Footage is kept 7 days on Free and 30 days on Society, then deleted.
What does the AI see?
Only moments OpenCV has already flagged: a few stills, never the live stream. It checks them and writes the reason you read in the alert.
See it on sample cameras.
The demo opens a sample society with its cameras, alerts and logs, and needs no sign in.
Run a mall, school or township? Email hello@dijmo.com.