Custom Hardware · Included With Active Cases
Covert Surveillance Cameras
We start with the same plain, off-the-shelf trail camera you'd find at any outdoor retailer — grey or brown camo housing, nothing that stands out — then rebuild what's inside it. The result looks like an ordinary hunting camera to anyone who finds it, while quietly running a cellular-connected surveillance feed back to our team.
Included with active Swift investigation cases. Not sold or rented separately to the general public right now.
Why the Hardware Isn't the Point
The camera itself is almost the least important part of this. What actually matters is that every photo and video it captures is sent to and stored on Swift's own servers in real time, off-site from the camera the whole time — never sitting on the device waiting to be pulled off later.
That means if a suspect finds the camera — and even breaks it, steals it, or destroys it outright — none of that touches the evidence already captured. It was never on the camera to begin with. The hardware is disposable; the case file isn't.
Built to Blend In, on Purpose
A hidden camera only works if nobody realizes it's a camera. That's why we never start from custom-molded, "spy gear"-looking hardware — we start from the same generic hunting camera sold in outdoor stores nationwide, and keep every outward detail exactly the way it shipped: same housing, same mounting strap, same lens window. A suspect who spots it strapped to a tree or a fence post sees a normal trail camera and moves on. Nothing about the outside gives away that it's been modified — which is the entire point.
What's actually inside
The shell never changes. What goes in behind it is a purpose-built set of modules that turn a $100 hunting camera into a real-time, hardened surveillance feed — tap a number, or just keep scrolling.
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Always-On Cellular Uplink
The camera stays constantly connected to Swift's own servers over cellular — not a periodic check-in. Anyone or anything triggering the camera is captured and sent back in near real time, so there's no need to physically retrieve an SD card or revisit the location to see what happened. Fewer trips back to the spot means less chance of the camera being disturbed and less chance of anyone noticing repeat visits to the area.
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0.5-Second Trigger
Motion trips the shutter in about half a second. Stock consumer trail cameras typically run 1 to 3+ seconds from motion to capture — long enough for a fast-moving subject to already be out of frame. The faster trigger here is built specifically to still catch them.
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Multi-Band, Frequency-Hopping Radio
Rather than locking onto one cellular band, the internal radio can hop across several bands and carriers. Consumer-grade RF jammers are generally built to flood one specific, narrow slice of spectrum — so a radio that isn't confined to a single band is inherently harder to knock offline with an off-the-shelf jammer. That's a meaningful hardening step, not a guarantee against every possible jamming attempt.
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Shielding & Hardened Housing
Internal shielding and a sealed housing add a further layer of resistance to interference and casual tampering, on top of the frequency diversity above.
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Cellular Only — Never WiFi
The camera never joins a WiFi network, period. No SSID ever broadcasts from it, and no local network traffic exists for a suspect's phone or one of the free WiFi-scanner apps to ever pick up in the area. Combined with the ordinary shell, that means there's genuinely nothing nearby to detect it by — visually or over the air.
Placement is planned around your state's surveillance laws — same as every other evidence-gathering method Swift offers. Your case manager or investigator will talk through where placement is appropriate for your situation before anything goes in the ground.
Two Ways to Get It in Place
Once your camera is set up for your case, getting it into position is straightforward either way — there's no wiring, no app pairing, and nothing technical to configure on-site.
Set It Up Yourself
Strap it to a tree, post, or fence like any other trail camera, aim it, and power it on — that's it. Everything else — the cellular connection, the alerts, the footage — happens automatically on our end. No SD card to swap, no app to configure, and nothing on-site that needs a second visit to maintain.
Have Your Investigator Place It
If you'd rather not handle placement yourself — or discretion calls for it — your investigator can put it in position as part of the case, during a visit that's already planned around your surveillance schedule.
Included With Your Case
This is available to clients with an active Swift investigation — it's built into the case, not an add-on you purchase separately. It isn't sold to the general public right now. If a covert camera fits what you're working on, ask your case manager or call to talk it through.
- Included with an active investigation case — no separate purchase price
- Not currently for sale or rent outside an active case
- Your case manager can confirm whether it fits your situation
Custom Hardware
Have an active case? Ask if this fits it.
Talk to our team about whether a covert camera makes sense for what you're working on, and how placement would work.