TETHERX FOR SMART CITIES // CITIES, COUNCILS, MUNICIPALITIES & PUBLIC-REALM OPERATORS
Citywide video surveillance, ready to deploy in weeks, not budget cycles.
Cloud CCTV for cities, councils, municipalities, town-centre operators and public-realm partnerships. Solar towers for the lamp-post you cannot trench. 4G / 5G for the high street that never had fibre. Every fixed, body-worn and in-vehicle camera on one map, with ANPR on every entrance and signed-link evidence ready for police, council enforcement and partner agencies.
Routed direct to a TetherX-accredited installer. Already running a UK BID? See the dedicated BID page.
Accreditations across the TetherX installer network
TetherX partners hold the accreditations security-procurement buyers and insurers filter on. Coverage varies by partner.
Counts reflect partners currently in the TetherX directory holding each accreditation.
Citywide video without the fibre dig.
Trenching fibre is expensive, slow and rarely realistic across a town centre, council estate or roadside infrastructure. Solar-powered camera towers with 4G / 5G backhaul - through partners like Sunstone Systems - let the deployment go in over weeks, not budget cycles, while local recording on the TetherBox keeps footage safe when the cellular link drops.
The platform is built for the scale: massive on-demand storage, centralised camera management across a large geographic area, and an open API that bolts onto whatever LPR, facial-recognition or analytics stack the city already runs.
Solar & 4G towers
Lamp-post, verge, park gate or roadworks. Mains-free, fibre-free, deployable in hours.
Centralised across the city
Live and historic video across a large geographic area, navigated from one map.
Body-worn & in-vehicle
Fixed cameras, ranger body-worn and in-vehicle dashcam feeds in one workspace.
Massive on-demand storage
Retention configurable per camera and per zone. Adjust without buying new hardware.
Real-time first responders
Pre-authorise police, fire, ambulance or partner agencies for live camera access in declared incidents.
Open API
Cloud-to-cloud integration with LPR, facial recognition, AI analytics and the city's existing dashboards.
UK specific: running a Business Improvement District? The same platform underpins TetherX's dedicated BID workflow page - member cameras, ANPR and public-realm CCTV unified for BID managers.
Open citywide cloud VMS, partner-deployed
Designed for the partnerships public-realm security already runs - council, police, partner agencies, trading-standards - and the tooling each of them needs.
Every Camera, Every Tower, Every Vehicle - One Map
Fixed CCTV, solar 4G / 5G towers, body-worn and in-vehicle feeds on one map. Multi-agency role-based access lets each partner see only what their agreement covers.
- Map view across the entire footprint, colour-coded by camera health
- Multi-agency role scoping for police, council, partner agencies and trading-standards
- Native iOS / Android apps for on-the-ground response teams
Number-Plate Reads On Every Entry
Town-centre entry, car-park ingress, council estate perimeter and roadworks junction - all on one cross-camera search. Repeat-offender flags work across every linked deployment.
- ANPR overlay on every supported camera
- Cross-deployment plate search and watchlist alerts
- Signed-link clip share with police and council enforcement
Share Evidence Lawfully, With Audit Trail
Signed, time-bounded clip links to police, council and partner agencies. The audit log records every view and download against the named user. Pre-authorised emergency-access for declared incidents.
- Signed, revocable evidence links with full audit trail
- Pre-authorised first-responder camera access
- Video fully encrypted in transit and at rest
- GDPR / DPA-2018 compliant defaults out of the box
Bring The Cameras Already In The City
TetherX is open by design. The TetherBox bridge connects to 1,000+ integrations and any ONVIF device, so legacy town-centre cameras, body-worn and in-vehicle kit all keep working.
- Works with the cameras already in the city - 1,000+ integrations and ONVIF
- IP, analog, HD-over-coax, body-worn and in-vehicle - all bridged into one cloud workspace
- Solar / 4G / 5G ready hardware through accredited partners
- Health monitoring per camera and per tower
Cities-specific features other VMS bolt on later
Smart-cities deployments are not just bigger retail estates. The workflow is multi-agency, the network is cellular, the cameras travel - on rangers, on vans, on temporary towers. The platform has to know that on day one.
Pre-designated first-responder access
A council operator declares an incident and grants real-time camera access to police, fire or ambulance for the duration of the response. Permissions expire automatically when the incident is closed. No phone calls, no after-the-fact requests.
Body-worn + in-vehicle in the same workspace
Ranger body-worn cameras, council CCTV-van dashcams and fixed public-realm cameras share one timeline. The clip the ranger filmed on the high street lines up with the fixed camera angle, side by side, in the same case file.
Cross-deployment search at city scale
Search "every white van that passed this junction last Saturday" across thousands of cameras and weeks of retention. AI tagging makes the search practical at a citywide footprint - not just a single car park.
Multi-agency partner roles, separated by design
Council enforcement, police-liaison, trading-standards, parking and other partner agencies each get a scoped view of the cameras and tools their partnership covers. Every action is logged against the named user for the audit trail your DPO needs.
Deployed alongside the partners cities and councils already trust.
The TetherX-accredited installer network includes specialists in solar / 4G rapid-deploy (Sunstone Systems and others), ANPR and false-alarm-filtering analytics (Calipsa, DeepAlert), and Alarm Receiving Centres set up for verified-video response. The platform is one piece - the local accredited partner brings the rest of the stack and the on-the-ground engineers.
See the partner network"In an emergency, every minute counts. Pre-designated police and partner-agency users can be granted real-time camera access the moment an incident is declared - clear, advanced insight into the situation before the first vehicle arrives."
TetherX administrator workflow - pre-authorise per incident, expire on resolution.
Every city zone, one control room
Public realm coverage with audio talk-down.
Every zone visible to one operator.
Smart-cities platform brief
Get the smart-cities brief by email.
4G / 5G deployment, multi-agency evidence sharing, ANPR with cross-deployment search, body-worn and in-vehicle integration and citywide oversight - the full brief for council and public-realm leads. PDF, in your inbox before you go.
No sales call; your email stays with us. We route serious enquiries through accredited local TetherX installers.
How TetherX stands out for cities and public space
Citywide, multi-agency video, access and alerts on one platform - deployed in weeks, not budget cycles.
One platform, one bill
Video, access control and intruder alerts on one dashboard, one app, one bill - across depots, civic buildings and the public realm.
Records through any outage
The TetherBox records full-rate on-site. A cellular or backhaul drop never loses footage - it syncs when the link returns.
Your retention, full 4K
Set retention per camera at full 4K - evidence-grade on key junctions, short elsewhere. No pricing-band retention cap.
Keep your own ARC
Connect your existing monitoring station or control room - Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages and others. Any ARC software can connect via a generic link - no special integration required. No forced SOC switch.
Built in the UK and Australia
Built in the UK and Australia. Local representatives in Canada and India. EU, North America and APAC supported. Your data stays in your region (UK, AU, CA, IN, EU, NA, APAC).
Ringfence legacy CCTV
Existing public CCTV (including Hikvision and Dahua) stays reachable behind the TetherBox, off the public Internet - phase NDAA-compliant replacement on your budget cycle. NDAA-ready options include Hanwha Vision, Axis, Avigilon, Pelco, Bosch.
What council and public-realm teams ask before they switch
Town-centre cameras stranded on a recorder no agency partner can access?
Police, council and partner agencies on one map. Evidence shared in seconds, audit trail behind every click.
A TetherX-accredited installer scopes the footprint and quotes a phased citywide rollout.
Ready to scope a citywide deployment?
Tell us the footprint, the partnerships and the rough camera count. We route your enquiry direct to a TetherX-accredited installer who deploys public-realm CCTV - no central sales call.
We reply by email, usually within one business day.
