SCANNING/BAND20–4000 MHz/DETECTORAD8317/WIFI2.4 GHz/BLEPASSIVE
DEPLOYMENTS// 06 SECTORS

Where TrailSense is in the ground.

Six deployment patterns we've seen work. Every property is different - the unit count, placement, and alert thresholds get tuned to your specific terrain, threat profile, and staffing model. Start with one of these, then we adapt.

SECTORS · 01
SECTOR · 01

Large-acreage ranches

Challenge

Cattle and game ranches spanning 500+ acres are too big for cameras and too remote for hardwired alarms. Game cameras catch one frame; you need to know who is coming and going across the whole property.

Approach

Place units at choke points - gates, water sources, equipment yards, line shacks - and let them passively monitor for active devices in range. Solar power and LTE backhaul mean no infrastructure is required.

Typical deployment

4-8 units for a 500-acre property; more if perimeter coverage matters

SECTOR · 02

Conservation reserves

Challenge

Anti-poaching, anti-trespass, and habitat-monitoring on protected land. Cameras spook wildlife and require maintenance the staff doesn't have. Patrols are sparse and predictable.

Approach

Hidden, passive sensors at known intrusion paths and wildlife corridors. No light, no sound, no transmission. Detected devices get logged with timestamp and approximate position; alerts fire to staff and partner agencies.

Typical deployment

Per-corridor deployment, scaled to known access routes

SECTOR · 03

Industrial sites

Challenge

Solar farms, telecom towers, substations, water-treatment plants. Long perimeters, high-value equipment, theft and sabotage risk after hours. Legacy alarm systems trip on wildlife and weather and burn out the on-call rotation.

Approach

A perimeter line of TrailSense units, each covering several hundred feet of fenceline at the choke points that matter. The detection engine's phantom-MAC suppression and confidence scoring keep false-positive rates low, so the alerts that fire are the ones worth answering.

Typical deployment

1 unit per 300-500 ft of perimeter, depending on threat profile

SECTOR · 04

Gated drives & private roads

Challenge

Long access roads on remote homes and lodges. Gate cameras work for the gate; they don't cover the alternate paths a determined trespasser will use.

Approach

A small set of units along the access road and at known bypass points. Detection logs every device that passes through, whether they came through the gate or not.

Typical deployment

2-4 units for a typical drive, plus alternate-path coverage

SECTOR · 05

Oil & gas sites

Challenge

Operators run hundreds of unmanned wellpads, tank batteries, compressor stations, and gathering corridors across remote acreage in the Permian, Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Marcellus. Copper theft, frac-sand theft, pump-down hydrocarbon theft, and instrument vandalism all run high. Cameras need grid power and a connectivity drop that most pads don't have; fencing thousands of acres of lease is not economical and does nothing against a truck rolling up to a tank battery at 2 AM.

Approach

TrailSense units mount at wellpads, tank batteries, compressor stations, and access-road choke points. Each unit passively detects anyone arriving with a phone - your crews, your service contractors, and anyone else. Solar power and onboard LTE mean the unit deploys on a pad with no service drop and runs for years. The detection engine's whitelist suppresses your operations team and approved vendors, so the alert feed shows only unaccounted activity at sites that are supposed to be empty.

Typical deployment

1 unit per wellpad or tank battery; 2-3 units along high-value gathering-line corridors

SECTOR · 06

Tactical & special-use

Challenge

State, federal, or contracted teams running short-duration deployments where standing infrastructure does not exist and active emissions are not permitted.

Approach

Battery-powered units staged for the deployment window, retrieved after. The sensor itself never transmits a probe; LTE backhaul can be replaced with on-site collection if RF discipline is required.

Typical deployment

Mission-scoped, including no-emission and field-retrieval modes

DEPLOYMENT · 02

What every deployment shares.

Hardware-level rules of thumb that apply across sectors. We work through these on the demo call when we sketch your coverage map.

Choke points beat coverage.

A few units at gates, trail intersections, and water sources outperform many units strung along a fenceline. Spend the budget where bodies actually pass.

Mount high.

6-10 ft up, on a fence post, a tree, or a pole. Higher = better line of sight = longer effective range across all three sensing channels.

Whitelist your regulars.

Family, staff, neighbors, regular service folks. The detection engine learns to suppress them so the alert feed stays useful.

Range is not a number.

Effective range varies with source transmit power, antenna, and terrain. A phone in line-of-sight reads further than a phone behind a hill. We map your actual property; we don't print one number.

NEXT STEP · 01

Map your property with us.

Bring property boundary, known access paths, threat profile. We sketch a deployment.

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NEXT STEP · 02

Read the technology page.

What each channel sees, what the detection engine does, what the unit cannot do.

How it works