Trucks full of gear. A new location every week.That's the whole problem.
Film and TV productions carry hundreds of thousands of dollars in camera, lighting, and grip equipment into a new, often unsecured location every few days — a parking lot, a backlot, a remote field with no power, no fence, and no history of protecting anything. Gear walks off the truck, paparazzi and trespassers breach closed sets, and base camp sits exposed the moment the crew wraps for the night. VDS deploys solar-autonomous surveillance to any location in hours, reads every plate at the access point, and puts a live SOC operator on every alert — then relocates with you to the next location.
Exposed sites.
High-value targets with no one watching.
Minimal staffing, sprawling ground, and valuable assets in the open — the conditions that turn a site into a soft target the moment everyone goes home.
Camera, lighting & grip equipment theft
Six-figure camera packages, lighting rigs, and grip trucks sit staged in an open lot overnight — a single unlocked truck can mean a six-figure loss and a shut production day.
Base camp and equipment village left exposed
Trailers, generators, wardrobe, and the equipment village sit unattended between wrap and call time, on a lot with no fence line and no history of being watched.
Trespassers, paparazzi, and closed-set breaches
Unauthorized visitors slip past a thin production assistant perimeter to reach a closed set — chasing a photo, a script page, or just a look at talent — and every breach is a liability and IP exposure.
Vehicle, trailer & vendor access control
Dozens of crew, vendor, and rental vehicles move through a single access point every day, with no reliable record of who came, went, or shouldn't have been there at all.
Drop the trailer.
The SOC takes it from here.
Solar-autonomous surveillance with AI analytics and live SOC operators. No power, no internet, no guards required.
Every vendor.
Every truck.
License plate recognition at the location or base camp entrance logs every crew, vendor, and gear truck in and out, flags unrecognized vehicles, and turns the access point into a verified record instead of a clipboard sign-in sheet.
- Automatic plate capture at the access point, day and night
- Entry/exit log tied to time and plate
- Hotlist alerts for unrecognized or flagged vehicles
- Evidence packages for production security and law enforcement
// STEP 01Acres of trucks.
One virtual perimeter.
The MSU establishes camera coverage across base camp, the equipment village, and the set perimeter from an elevated mast, standing up in the same window the rest of production loads in — before the first truck is even unloaded.
- Elevated coverage across base camp and equipment village
- AI human and vehicle classification
- Alerts on movement near staged equipment after hours
- Works in zero-light on remote and backlot locations
// STEP 02No extra guards.
A live operator instead.
Every alert routes to a live SOC operator who verifies it, issues a real-time audio warning to clear trespassers or paparazzi off a closed set, and escalates to production security or law enforcement with footage.
- Live operator verification on every alert
- Real-time voice-down warnings through the speaker
- Escalation to production security and law enforcement
- Nightly and wrap-out incident reporting
// STEP 03No power on location.
No problem at all.
Solar power and 4G/5G cellular connectivity mean the MSU deploys wherever the call sheet points — remote location, empty lot, backlot — with no generator dependency for security and no wait on utility hookups, then relocates the moment production wraps.
- Solar-autonomous — no grid power required
- 4G/5G cellular backhaul on any location
- Deploys in under 20 minutes, no site prep
- Relocatable location to location as the show moves
// STEP 04Every asset on site.
One platform.
The MSU adapts to the call sheet. Here are the scenarios productions deploy for most often.
Base camp & equipment village
Trailers, generators, wardrobe, and staged gear sitting unattended between wrap and the next call time.
Closed & controlled sets
Active shooting locations that need a hard perimeter against trespassers, paparazzi, and script or footage leaks.
Standing sets left overnight
Built sets and dressed locations left in place across multiple shoot days, exposed to vandalism and theft between setups.
Location entrances & vendor access
The single access point every crew, cast, and vendor vehicle passes through, tied to LPR for a verified entry log.
Remote & backlot locations
Locations with no grid power, no fence, and no existing infrastructure — exactly where fixed security can't go.
Multi-location & touring productions
Episodic and feature productions that need consistent, relocatable coverage as the show moves location to location.
Real operators.
Real numbers.
Every metric below comes from a real VDS production security deployment. Production and studio names protected per NDA.
We wrapped in a parking lot at midnight with a truck full of camera packages and no security plan. The trailer was on site before the grip truck was even unloaded, and it followed us to the next three locations.
// MSU-A · FLAGSHIPLPR + SOC · FILM & PRODUCTIONThe Mobile Surveillance Unit.
Built to move with the show.
Gate LPR, base camp and set perimeter coverage, and 24/7 SOC monitoring — all from a solar-autonomous trailer that deploys to any location in hours and relocates the moment production wraps.
From assessment
to covered.
Most productions go from initial call to a live trailer on location in hours — not days.
Production security review
We review your shooting schedule, locations, base camp layout, and equipment value to build a coverage plan before day one.
On-site deployment
Trailer arrives with the rest of production, mast raised, LPR and cameras calibrated — coverage live before the first truck is unloaded.
Relocation
As production moves to the next location, the MSU breaks down and redeploys, standing coverage back up in hours, not days.
Monitoring & reporting
24/7 SOC monitoring for the length of the shoot, with nightly incident and access reporting delivered to production security.
Secure your next location before call time.
Tell us your shooting schedule, locations, and equipment value — we'll build the coverage plan and have a trailer on site fast.