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Video security that doesn’t go down when your power or internet does

Cloud recording, smart detection and live alerts on the cameras you already own — built to keep working through the outages that break everything else. Free 30-day trial, no hardware to buy.

  • Works with Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview & ONVIF
  • Buffers through outages, syncs automatically
  • Live in minutes
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Live viewLow-bandwidth mode
Person
Gate — FrontLive
Ikeja Warehouse
Vehicle
Loading BayLive
Ikeja Warehouse
ReceptionLive
Lekki Office
Motion
Perimeter — EastSnap
Lekki Office
Event timeline
  • Person detected

    Gate — Front

    14:32
  • Vehicle detected

    Loading Bay

    14:28
  • Motion detected

    Perimeter — East

    14:11
  • Person detected

    Reception

    13:57
Tracking

Vehicle KJA-238 · last seen 2 min ago

The problem

Traditional camera systems hold you back

Whether you run one site or fifty, the same four problems show up — and most platforms are priced and built as though they don’t exist.

01

Pricing that punishes growth

Per-camera, per-month licensing means the invoice scales faster than the value. Adding the fifth camera costs the same as proving the first one worked.

02

Systems that assume perfect bandwidth

Continuous high-bitrate streaming is the first thing to break when a line degrades — and it usually breaks quietly, leaving gaps nobody notices until they matter.

03

Footage you can’t actually search

When something happens, the evidence is buried in hours of continuous recording with no index, no tags and no fast way to get to the right minute.

04

Sites that never come together

Mixed camera brands across locations usually means separate apps, separate logins, and no single timeline of what happened where.

The platform

Modern security for every site you run

A complete, cloud-managed video security platform — deployed on the hardware you already have, working from day one.

01

Connect

Point Cohi at the cameras already installed on your site.

02

Stream to cloud

Video and events move to the cloud, adapting to the bandwidth you actually have.

03

See and act

Alerts, playback and tracking arrive in one dashboard across every location.

Universal camera support

Maximize existing investments. Connect Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview and any ONVIF camera over RTSP — no rip-and-replace, no vendor lock-in.

Cloud recording & search

Find any moment in seconds. Every clip and snapshot lands in a searchable timeline you can scrub, filter and share from anywhere.

Smart detection

Cut through the noise. Motion, person and vehicle events are tagged automatically, so your team reviews what matters instead of everything.

Live tracking

Follow people and assets in motion. Track vehicles and devices on a live map, or trace a sequence of camera sightings across sites.

Resilient by design

Operate through outages. Clips buffer locally and upload when the line recovers, so a bad hour on the network never costs you the footage.

One dashboard, open API

Manage every site from a single view. Add users and roles as you grow, and integrate with your own systems through a documented API.

Retention is configurable from 7 to 30 days by default, with multi-site organisation built in from the start.

How it works

Up and running in three steps

  1. Step 1

    Connect your cameras

    Add each camera with its RTSP or ONVIF details. Mobile devices can upload clips where a fixed camera isn’t practical.

    Typically minutes per site — no new hardware required.

  2. Step 2

    Data streams securely to the cloud

    Cohi chunks video into short clips, tags events and stores everything in the cloud, adapting to the bandwidth available.

    Uploads queue and retry automatically when the line drops.

  3. Step 3

    View, search, track and get alerted

    Watch live, scrub the event timeline, follow movement on the map, and get notified by push or SMS when something matters.

    One dashboard across every site you run.

Free 30-day trial — no card required

Get started

Start your free trial today

Run Cohi on your own cameras, on your own network, for 30 days. Full access to every feature, real onboarding support, and no commitment when the trial ends.

  • Full platform access for 30 days
  • Up to 4 cameras across 2 sites
  • Cloud recording, search and event timeline
  • Smart detection with push and SMS alerts
  • Live tracking, API keys and onboarding support

We onboard a limited number of sites each month so every customer gets a real engineer on setup — not a help article.

No card required. We’ll only use your details to set up your trial and get in touch about onboarding.

Use cases

Built for the people who actually run the site

One storefront or fifty depots — Cohi is designed to be set up by an operator, not a systems integrator.

Retail, warehouses & offices

Watch the counter, the stock room and the loading bay without paying enterprise rates for each camera you add.

Retail · Distribution · SMBs

Residential & property

Give property and security teams one view of the gate, perimeter and common areas across the whole site.

Communities · Facility management

Fleet & logistics

Track vehicles and assets on a live map, and tie what happened at the yard to the same timeline.

Haulage · Last-mile · Dispatch

Security firms & integrators

Offer clients a modern cloud layer on the cameras you already install, with API access when you need to build further.

Guarding firms · Systems integrators

Why Cohi

Why security and operations teams choose Cohi

We built Cohi in Africa, where unreliable power and bandwidth are the norm rather than the exception. Engineering for those conditions made the platform more dependable everywhere it runs.

Cloud-edge architecture

Operate offline, sync automatically. Clips are captured and buffered at the edge, then uploaded as bandwidth allows — outages delay footage, never erase it.

Fully interoperable

Protect existing investments, avoid silos. If your cameras speak RTSP or ONVIF they work — keep the hardware, installer and wiring you already paid for.

Scales without friction

Start small, grow without penalty. Add cameras, sites, users and integrations as you expand — no renegotiation, no per-camera surprises.

< 10 min

From first camera to live footage

7–30 days

Configurable cloud retention

24/7

Monitoring with push and SMS alerts

Ready to see every site clearly?

Join the operators modernising their security without replacing a single camera. Set up your first site in under ten minutes.

Free 30-day trial · No card required · Setup support included