How GateSetu works
There are three parts: a camera and a box at your gate, our cloud that applies the rules, and your WhatsApp and phone. Nothing on site needs a person.
- 1
The camera
One 4K camera on a pole beside the lane, pointed across the gate. Nothing on the trucks, nothing for staff to operate.
- 2
The box at your gate
A small fanless computer reads the plate, judges loaded or empty, and keeps working for a week with no internet.
- 3
Our cloud
Sealed records sync when the link is up, get checked against your working hours, and become the day's count.
- 4
Your WhatsApp
One report every night, and an instant photo the moment a truck moves after hours.
1. At the gate
One 4K camera on a pole at 4.5 to 5.5 metres, looking down and across the lane. This one angle lets it read the number plate and see into the open tipper bed as the truck passes. Trucks crawl at a plant gate, so the frames are clean.
- White-light illumination at night, not infrared, because infrared washes out the load in the bed. A lit gate is also its own deterrent.
- A small fanless computer rated for 60 °C in a locked IP66 enclosure, with an SSD, not a memory card. It survives dust, heat and sudden power loss.
- A 4G router with a SIM that Aariko owns and pays for, so a lapsed recharge can never look like sabotage.
- A battery for about six hours. Longer cuts become a recorded blind window, reported to you honestly.
2. What the box does with every truck
The box tracks the vehicle across the whole pass. From the track it derives the direction, picks the sharpest frame of the plate and the best view of the bed, reads the plate, and judges loaded or empty. It then pairs this entry with the matching exit into one trip.
- Plate unreadable? The truck is still counted, its photo goes in your report, and it is paired by its look (colour, shape, markings) where possible.
- Load unclear? It is recorded as “unknown”. Rules that need the load skip that truck and the skip is written down. Nothing is guessed.
- Every record carries the hash of the previous one. The chain is verified on every sync. A changed or deleted record breaks the chain.
- The box stores everything locally and keeps working for seven days without internet.
3. Rules in the cloud
When the box syncs, our cloud pairs trips, applies the rules for your plant and builds your report. Rules live in the cloud so we can tune them without touching your gate.
- Instant: movement outside working hours; camera offline, covered, turned, dirty or with a wrong clock.
- Nightly: entered loaded and left loaded; came and left empty; a plate making far more trips than usual; a vehicle only ever seen at night; movement on a holiday.
- After-hours alerts are batched. The first truck comes with its photo; the next ones in the same window come as one line, not ten messages.
4. On your phone
WhatsApp is where the report and alerts arrive. The app is where you look at evidence and change settings. Each works without the other.
- Today: the report as a screen, with a coverage bar that shows exactly when the camera was on.
- Movements: every truck of the day with thumbnail, time, direction, plate and load. Tap for both frames side by side.
- Vehicles: history per plate, trips per day, first and last seen.
- Alerts: acknowledge with one tap. Camera: live health in plain words. Settings: working hours, holidays, report time, language, other owners.
What installation looks like
Our technician mounts the camera and the box, then completes setup from the app on their phone over the box's own Wi-Fi: live frame, draw the gate line with a finger, watch trucks being tracked for a minute, set your working hours and phone numbers. Under fifteen minutes once the hardware is up. You get a test WhatsApp message before they leave.
What it does not do
- It does not know what was authorised. There is no billing input in the camera. You compare the count against your bill book. (Phase 2 adds a gatekeeper who confirms the dispatch note at the gate.)
- It does not weigh trucks. Tonnage is an estimate from loaded exits and the average load you tell us, and is always labelled as an estimate.
- It does not cover a ten-hour power cut on battery. It covers about six and tells you the rest.