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Government construction cameras for a complete public record.

Public money builds it, and the record has to outlast the project. Our Buildcam cameras capture every phase on a fixed schedule, so the documentation never depends on who remembered to take a photo.

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Dated record
Objective, time-stamped archive
Role-based access
Council, agency, contractor
Solar + 4G
No site power or Wi-Fi
Multi-site
One dashboard, every project
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A record of the public build that stands up years later.

Municipal buildings, courthouses, transit works and civic infrastructure are funded by the public and answerable to it. Their documentation has to be continuous, objective and available long after the ribbon is cut. Our Buildcam cameras photograph the site on a fixed schedule from the first groundworks to final handover and store every frame, time-stamped, in Sentinel OS, the intelligent software platform behind every Buildcam camera.

A single project can involve a council, a funding agency, a head contractor and a community that wants to see progress. Each one gets the view it needs, and a public time lapse can be shared without opening the rest of the program.

A neoclassical civic building nearing completion
Buildcam TL above a mid-rise building site on an overcast morning
Buildcam Pro above a civic building nearing completion, with tower cranes behind

How it works

How a construction camera works on a public project

  1. Mount it at the edge of the works

    Each camera goes on a pole, an existing building or the site fence with a clear view of the works. It carries its own solar panel and 4G, so it needs nothing from the site's power or the agency's network.

  2. It records on a fixed schedule

    The camera photographs the site on a set schedule from first groundworks to handover. The documentation never depends on who remembered to take a photo.

  3. Each party gets the view it needs

    Every frame lands in Sentinel OS with a date and time. Program managers see every site, contractors see their own, and a public time lapse can be shared without opening the rest of the program.

On your project

Built for accountability

Site History in Sentinel OS on a desktop display, filtered by date, showing seaside residential towers

Milestone and progress verification

A dated, continuous record for every milestone and progress claim.

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Sentinel OS comparing two dates of a university campus: the finished courtyard on one side, earthworks on the other

Change order validation

The footage shows what was on site and when, so a variation can be checked against the record.

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Buildcam camera with its solar panel above a public building site

Contractor accountability

An objective view of the work, shared with the contractor and the client alike.

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Buildcam TL above a city basement excavation beside a busy street

Community engagement

A public time lapse lets residents watch their new facility take shape.

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A low-rise building under construction on a wide site at sunset

Transit and civic infrastructure

Stations, interchanges and streetscape upgrades recorded through every stage, with traffic and access changes on the record.

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The Sentinel OS mobile app on two phones: a calendar for picking a date to compare, and a slider comparing city towers at night

Program oversight across a jurisdiction

Every council or agency project in one dashboard, with each site shared with the team that runs it.

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Track your progress

See the site change, day by day, with Time Portal.

Compare any two dates across the frame, or drag a window across the image to reveal an earlier state beneath the present. Any two dates, side by side. The record speaks for itself.

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Portal mode. Drag inside the window to move it, drag a corner to resize, or draw a new window anywhere on the frame.

The site as it stands nowThe same view at an earlier stageNow
Then

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The complete record of your site, from day one.

Every frame from every camera, kept in one place and time-stamped. Scrub the timeline, jump to any date, narrow to a single camera and pull exactly what you need, from one still to a whole phase.

  • Every capture from day one, kept for the life of your subscription
  • Capture-day markers show which days have footage
  • Export any frame or range in full resolution
  • Finished projects go read-only and stay retained
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Site History with date filtering in Sentinel OS on a desktop display
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Sentinel OS, the intelligent software platform behind every Buildcam camera, turns your footage into searchable evidence, compliance, intel, and story.

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Buildcam Pro with its 4K livestream dome

Recommended hardware

Buildcam Pro

A time-stamped, high-resolution record and a 4K livestream for public viewing, from one camera.

Featured case study

Jim Santini Builders reimagines Firestone Park, on time for kickoff
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Jim Santini Builders reimagines Firestone Park, on time for kickoff

A 1930s stadium reborn for 980 spectators, against a hard deadline: the first football game of the season. With Buildcam at 10-minute intervals, Jim Santini kept daily watch on a complex concrete build from anywhere.

$1.4M

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980 seats

New seating

10 min

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Questions about cameras on public works.

The ones that come up most on publicly funded projects. The full FAQ lives in Resources.

Yes. Municipal and public works projects often run for years, and the record needs to stay continuous the whole way. Our Buildcam cameras run on solar power with an onboard battery and connect over 4G, so they keep recording from groundworks to handover without site mains or fixed internet. Every frame stays in Sentinel OS for the life of your subscription.
The camera records on a set schedule, so the result is a dated, continuous record that nobody curated in the moment. That gives project teams and public bodies an objective timeline for milestone verification, change order validation and dispute resolution. Frames export from Sentinel OS in full resolution, so the relevant evidence can be pulled and shared when a question comes up.
Access is governed by role-based permissions in Sentinel OS. Council staff, agency stakeholders, funders and contractors each see only the projects and cameras they're authorized to view. You can share a project-specific view with a community or oversight group without opening the rest of your program.
Yes. Sentinel OS brings every camera into a single login with consistent timeline views, so a program manager can move across sites without switching accounts. Each site can still be shared on its own with the local team responsible for it.
Yes. A time lapse is a clear, honest way to show progress to elected officials, funders and the public. Every frame sits in Sentinel OS by project and date, so an update that used to take an afternoon to put together takes minutes, and the same footage becomes a public record of the work delivered.
Yes. Every frame carries a date and time, so the record shows where the work stood on the day a milestone was claimed. Time Portal puts any two dates side by side for an assessor or a project director, and frames export in full resolution for the payment file.
Yes. Share a public time lapse or a project link that opens one view and nothing else. With Buildcam LS or Pro, residents can also watch a 4K livestream of the works.
Finished projects go read-only in Sentinel OS and stay retained for the life of your subscription. Export any frame or range in full resolution for the project file or the opening.

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