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• Aevocam vs CameraFTP

  CameraFTP has provided FTP-based video and timelapse photo cloud storage and viewing. Their business model is oriented around predictable, relatively low cost storage service.

  CameraFTP is a division of DriveHQ, a more generalized cloud storage service that has operated since 2003.

• How to Cut Your Costs

  Aevocam offers very practical ways to keep your costs to a minimum. Not just in the early days, but also over the long term. To understand how to cut costs, you first must have a solid understanding of our baseline costs for service.

  In a nutshell, your monthly fees are primarily based on how many megapixels of image content you store. Which means that your primary way to save money is to reduce how much image content you store. Over time, you want to keep the useful photos and discard the…

• Aevocam User & Tenant Management

  Signing Up, Creating a Tenant, Inviting Members, Defining Roles

  Joining as a new Aevocam user is easy! Enter app.aevocom.com in the location field of your browser and enter your email address (remember to click the New User checkbox). Click on send authentication email button below your email address. You'll receive that email in a few seconds.

  After you have been authenticated, you can either log in with the email address that you signed up with, or with your Google email address. For security reasons, you'll be sent an authentication email after every 24…

• Subscription Plans

  Basic Monthly and Usage Rates

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  The pricing model** is fairly simple:

• Aevocam Billing Plan Explained

  Understanding Your Plan, Allowance, Costs, and Storage

  Each tenant (client) will be assigned a billing plan, which will specify rates for their plan and other services.

  This calculator will help you visualize and project your basic usage costs over months and even years. The default scenario shows detailed cost and storage breakdowns for 10 cameras, a total of 10 photos/day uploaded to Aevocam at a resolution of 1080p (2 megapixels), with an extra photo ingested every day. All photos that have been uploaded and ingested--except for 1…

• How to Configure My Cameras

  How to Setup Cameras for Photo Upload to the Aevocam Platform

  The photo ingestion process requires that each of your internet-connected cameras to upload photos to our servers. Currently, we only offer FTP uploading. But realistically, that's all most cameras will offer you, if they offer uploading at all. Many of them will only automatically upload video or snapshots to their own proprietary cloud servers.

  You need to tell each camera how to connect to our FTP server. You will also need to set a schedule for uploading photos.

• A Robust LTCM Platform for Business

  Aevocam ("eye-voh-cam") provides cloud-based long-term condition monitoring (LTCM). You provide the internet-connected cameras. You set up schedules for your cameras to send us images. We provide storage, fast review, and analytics for your feeds. Think of each feed as a time-lapse video that could cover months, years, or even centuries.

  This is not meant for security. You already have live and 30-day storage from your security cameras. Aevocam is for keeping an eye on the condition of your…

• Camera Feed Editor

  How to Customize the Look, Timing, and Security of Your Feeds

  Now that you've uploaded a number of photos to your Aevocam account, you can see what they look like in your feed editor.

  Let's take a more in-depth look at the commands and controls.

• Learn More and Join Our Beta

  Join our Discord server

  If your business includes a regularly managed or service component, ignoring changes that happen slowly is never a good thing -- because they can eventually become disasters.

• Aevocam Camera Feed Player

  Exploring Camera Feed Playback Controls

  Welcome to your Aevocam camera feed player! Enjoy intuitive and powerful ways and fine-grained control to review your camera feeds, including frame-by-frame review, image magnification, adjustable frame rates, and more.

  In the top left corner of the player are 2 buttons. The leftmost command will take you back to the Feeds home page, while the Edit button will let you customize the look, details, and security of your feed.

• How Aevocam Works

  A Deep Dive into Aevocam and Why It Can Work for You

  If your business includes a regularly managed or service component, ignoring changes that happen slowly is never a good thing -- because they can eventually become disasters.

  Relying on human judgement (and/or depending on someone to execute their responsibilities without some form of oversight) is risky. We are prone to make errors and differ in our interpretation of events.

• Frequently Asked Questions

  What We Are, What Services We Provide, and More

  Aevocam (pronounced eye-voh-cam) is an intuitive and powerful cloud-based platform that uses timelapse photography to help you see and track change over weeks, months, and years.

  Aevocam helps you see slow problems early, document them clearly, and act before they become emergencies. Its ability to mitigate risk has great potential across many verticals in industries like real estate, property management, utilities, agribusiness, public infrastructure, and construction.

• Aevocam Minimum Requirements

  What You'll Need to Use the Aevocam Platform

  The following represents what you’ll need to integrate the Aevocam long-term conditioning platform with your business.

  1-2 internet-connected cameras with 1080p (1920x1080) to 4K (3840x2160) resolution, indoor/outdoor and low-light operation; thermal and infrared technology for full perimeter coverage on all points of entry; blind spot coverage; failsafe system; and the ability to take snapshots and schedule them for upload at predetermined intervals via FTP.

• Show Me the Work Before I Show You the Money

  On a landlord forum, an out-of-state investor shared the story of their being billed to the tune of $10K in repair costs for an incomplete flooring job to their suite by a previous property manager (and, months later, for another $4K on the same repairs). Because the invoices were vague (i.e. "for rehab and repairs"), and lacked visual evidence of the work performed, the investor couldn't confirm whether the charges were justified, and was conflicted between paying or challenging the bill.

  Vend…

• This Unit Was Supposed to Be Ready Tomorrow

  How many times have you heard this complaint? A tenant is promised a move-in date. Renovations or make-ready work fall behind. Leasing staff relies on vendor updates, not direct visibility. The unit isn't ready -- sometimes by days or weeks. A widely-shared Reddit thread captures this exact moment of failure: "There is no way it will be ready for move-in by tomorrow ... I was told we would have a remodeled and finished apartment." In the replies, even property managers admit the problem:…

• A Hail Mary Pass Was Needed to Approve This Insurance Claim

  If you live in a hailstorm-prone zone of the country, getting compensated for damages to your property should be straightforward. Unfortunately, in Calgary (the hailstorm capital of Canada), an insurer's failure to spot visible roof damage during the inspection of a homeowner’s property resulted in months of effort by the homeowner to change the insurer's narrative and have their claim approved.

  While homeowners may want adjusters to accept their word, the reality is that proof beats…

• "You Left the Unit Damaged" Deposit Disputes

  Deposit disputes dominate Reddit housing forums. In one Ontario case, a landlord charged $725 for cleaning and paint — but all photos were taken after repairs, not at move-out. The tenant challenged the charges, citing lack of proof. In another instance, a BC (British Columbia) landlord refunded a $1,200 deposit, despite the presence of real damages, because their photos were undated and incomplete, making them legally unusable.

  Move-in/move-out photos are often inconsistent, incomplete, or…

• Absentee Owners Fear Money Being Spent Without Oversight

  Case studies show absentee owners specifically fear maintenance approvals without oversight, particularly when managers use in-house labor or markups without documentation. Commercial asset managers cite “lack of transparency into operations” as a core barrier to controlling NOI across distributed portfolios.

  Owners may demand approval for repairs, even minor ones. Response times are slower, and friction between owner and property manager may ensue.

• We Can't See the Gym for the Workout Equipment

  In a UK portfolio case study, an owner with five properties had “long-standing maintenance issues” at many sites, but none were catastrophic on their own. Because each issue looked minor and local, they were never prioritized—until tenant churn, unpaid rent, and rising maintenance costs showed up portfolio-wide.

  Property managers review buildings one by one, usually reactively. Patterns like the same façade deterioration, recurring drainage issues, and identical wear on roofs or balconies…

• Failure to Seal Walls Leaves Condo Developer All Wet

  A few years ago, my parents downsized to a new Metro Vancouver condo tower that had a car wash station built into the fifth of its six-level parking garage. However, the property developer failed to take both the popularity of this feature and the rising water table into consideration. The constant usage of the car wash station over the first two years resulted in water dripping into the unsealed adjoining walls. That led to significant amounts of mold seepage and buildup in the sixth level…

• The Case of the Disappearing Roofing Contractor

  A Canadian condo board hired a property manager to oversee a full roofing replacement. However, an investigation later revealed that old shingles were never removed; some roofs had three layers of shingles (which violated building code); rotten plywood was left in place; and ice-and-water shielding was missing or poorly installed. No inspection records, photos, or site documentation existed — only vague invoices. Worst of all, the contractor pulled a Houdini. No regular site visits were made,…

• An Expensive Snow Job of a Cleanup

  At a condominium complex in Rockville, Maryland, property management hired a snow-removal contractor to clear the pathways after a winter storm. On paper, the job appeared to be “done.” Shortly afterwards, a tenant slipped on an icy patch outside and suffered severe injuries. During the litigation process, investigators discovered that: (1) the snow-removal contract lacked clear de-icing requirements, and (2) the property manager had no documentation or photos to show what conditions looked…

• Surprise Fire Inspection Sends Tempers Flaring

  A tenant in Ontario described a surprise fire department inspection that neither she nor the landlord were expecting. After the inspection, the landlord blamed the tenant and escalated harassment, while the tenant claimed that the unit had unresolved safety and standards issues. Both parties were fired up about the situation.

  Without a shared, objective record of unit condition before inspection and no proof of when safety issues appeared (or how long they’d existed), the surprise inspection…

• Aevocam Beta Tester Program

  How to Apply, Qualify, and What to Expect

  You must join the Aevocam Discord server in order to apply to become a beta tester.

  Join our Discord server and talk to us and others with similar pain points (note: we will talk to you there or email you for further details if you qualify).