Proven Substation Security for Grid Reliability
Built for Perimeter Performance
Engineered for the real demands of perimeter security, SightLogix delivers trusted detection at distance, fewer nuisance alarms, and precise target location.
Early Warning Before the Fence
Long-range thermal detection gives security teams more time to verify, deter, dispatch, or escalate before an intruder reaches the fence, critical equipment, or secured areas.
Trusted Alarms for Remote Sites
Thermal AI, geospatial filtering, and site-specific rules distinguish people from wildlife, weather, vegetation, shadows, and other nuisance activity before alerting operators.
Most alarms start an investigation. Yours should start a response.
A utility operating a regional transmission network may have dozens of substations spread across thousands of square miles, and a physical security team that is finite. Many sites are monitored remotely and visited only for maintenance, with response teams covering large geographic areas.
The burden of first response falls on whoever receives the alarm — often from a distance. An alarm that reports something moved on the north fence starts an investigation. An alarm that reports a person is there, what they look like, and which way they are moving starts a response.
SightLogix for Substation Security
Download SightLogix for Substation Security and see how the system detects threats earlier and protects more perimeter with less infrastructure at remote sites — a briefing to share with your team.
Detect Intruders Before They Reach Secured Areas
Full Thermal Detail, Processed at the Edge — for Trusted Alerts at Remote Sites
SightSensors detect and classify threats directly inside the camera, helping utility security teams identify intruders before they reach gates, transformers, or other secured areas.
Unlike conventional cameras, SightSensors analyze raw thermal data at the edge, preserving millions of datapoints of critical scene detail. Combined with image stabilization, geospatial intelligence, and purpose-trained thermal AI to classify targets, this generates dependable alarms in darkness, weather, wind, vibration, and remote-site conditions — without depending on cloud processing for primary detection.
Reduce Nuisance Alarms Across Remote Sites
Smart Thermal Analytics Built for Outdoor Performance
A substation perimeter is full of motion — wildlife, weather, moving shadows, heat rising off the ground, camera shake from wind and pole flex. Rather than ask AI to judge every moving pixel, SightLogix uses geospatial filtering to establish where an object is and how large it really is, then applies thermal AI only to plausible human targets. The result is up to 95% fewer nuisance alarms, without giving up detection sensitivity over large distances.
Lower Infrastructure Cost Across Substation Perimeters
Reliable Range Utilities Can Design Around
At a substation, total project cost is set by infrastructure, not unit price — every camera position is a pole, a foundation, a cable run, and a power connection, and those costs repeat at every site. SightLogix specifies range against the hardest case, but even so a single SightSensor covers hundreds of meters of perimeter reliably — so you need fewer cameras, and therefore fewer poles, trenches, and power connections at every site. Each position also has to keep working when the nearest technician is hours away: the published field hardware failure rate is under 2%.
SightSurvey coverage model for a substation perimeter.
Our Products for Substation Security
One system, three options: long-range thermal detection, dual-sensor detection with visual context, and automatic PTZ verification.
SightSensor NS
Long-range thermal detection and on-camera classification for remote perimeter approaches.
SightSensor TC
Thermal detection paired with visible imaging for scene context from one camera position.
SightTracker PTZ
Automatic PTZ tracking gives operators a closer visible view of the same moving target.
Utility customer
Since we started using this system, we have not had a successful intrusion at any of our locations. In my 45 years in this business, in both the public and private sectors, that’s pretty damn good.
Case study
Proven in the Field
A major North American utility operating transmission substations evaluated multiple perimeter security approaches before standardizing on SightLogix SightSensors. Copper theft was the initial driver; a growing network and more remotely monitored sites made it a portfolio-level requirement.
Eight to twenty-eight SightSensors protect each substation perimeter, paired with auto-steered PTZ cameras that respond to GPS-located verified alarms, day and night, in any weather. Because each sensor covers more perimeter than conventional cameras, the utility cut pole count, trench runs, and power connections per site by roughly a third — and executive support to expand across the portfolio followed once field performance was established.
Evaluation results
- 98% Detection accuracy in the evaluation
- 30% Less camera infrastructure
Detecting and Tracking Intruders at a Substation
Talk to a perimeter security specialist
In a free consultation with no obligation, we’ll help plan a new perimeter or improve an existing site. We use SightSurvey to model coverage on your site and guide design decisions.
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