Plug and play
Keep the gear. Add Care OS Overlay.
Keep your cameras and badge readers. Add Care OS Overlay — the local brain for Cases, Find, Review/rewind, and alerts — plus a locked-down network so student Wi‑Fi stays off staff and security. Then fill the gap map below. Most schools are under ~$3,000/year for Pioneer Care versus roughly $8–15K+/year for a typical cloud stack; larger campuses are sized up and cost more. Mini is the brain; size local disk/NAS for 30/60/90-day video.
What Overlay does on day one
Tight list — not a rip-and-replace pitch.
Keep gear, add brain
Existing cameras and door readers already suffice for most schools — keep the gear, add the Care OS brain. Mac Mini runs Care OS locally.
AI person alerts
Person / motion AI on your feeds — text and email when it matters.
Cases
Incident folders: notes, linked cams/doors, clip trail — without cloud cam rent.
Find clips fast
Search alerts/events by time, camera, or keyword. Get to the moment in minutes.
Review / Rewind
Scrub continuous local video by camera + date/time even if not alerted. Find = alerts/events; Review = full rewind.
Student Wi‑Fi stays separate
Kids’ phones and guest Wi‑Fi cannot reach staff systems or the camera network. Included in the job.
Video stays on campus
Recordings live in the building. Care can check in remotely with keys on approved devices only. Mac Mini runs the brain; add disk if you need 30–90 days of video.
Badge / door events
Staff entry (and more) when electronic access exists.
Locked-down network
Student Wi‑Fi, staff systems, and security each stay on their own side. Cameras are not opened to the public internet. Remote Care uses a private keyed path. Built into Overlay — not optional small print.
Care under ~$3K/yr for most
Most schools under ~$3,000/year vs ~$8–15K+/year cloud. Larger campuses sized up.
1
Paying for cloud cameras every year
Stop the forever software fees. Keep gear that still works. Run Care on campus.
2
You own the gear — the network is messy
Student Wi‑Fi mixes with staff, or cameras are open to the outside. Overlay locks that down without a rebuild.
Coming with your doors / policy: panic/button lockdown · soft lockdown vs drill (labeled) · fire = egress OUT only, never unlock ingress. Next phase — not day one.
Gap-map intake
Tell us what you already run. We’ll map Have / Need / Path to live.
Pioneer gap map
Have
Need
Path to live
Care is required with Overlay — monitoring, updates, training, escalation.
Rules-based first pass from your answers — Pioneer confirms on a walkthrough. Your email draft should have opened with this same map; if not, use the address below.
Or email the same details to [email protected]