Twin Eagle Solutions

    Discipline 02 · Build & Install

    Industrial Camera Build & Install

    Twin Eagle Solutions self-performs every trade between a finished design and a commissioned camera system in the field — shop integration, in-house NEMA enclosures, in-house tower climbing, site civils, solar and AC power, camera aiming, edge-server provisioning, VisionAery analytic deployment and tuning, analytic-to-SCADA integration, VMS commissioning, and Site Acceptance Testing.

    What "Build & Install" actually means for industrial video

    Twin Eagle Solutions has been building and installing industrial camera systems for oil & gas, water/wastewater, utility, and mining operators across the lower 48 states since 2001. The discipline covers everything physical and electronic between an engineered design and an accepted, monitored, alarmed system in the field — shop integration of partner-built skids and trailers and in-house NEMA enclosures; tower, monopole, and pole installation by in-house OSHA 1910 compliant, rescue-trained certified climbers; concrete pads, drilled-pier foundations, and site civils; solar arrays, battery banks, and UPS-backed AC power; outdoor-rated cabling with proper drip loops, weatherheads, and surge protection; camera aiming, focus, and preset programming; edge-server provisioning and VisionAery edge-AI analytic deployment; analytic-output integration into VMS bookmarks, SCADA tag writes via MQTT and OPC UA, and email/SMS/pager alarming; VMS configuration, channel and user policy; network commissioning and link verification; cybersecurity hardening with MFA-protected remote access; and a written Site Acceptance Test that closes out the as-built deliverable package.

    The discipline matters because the gap between a paper design and a working industrial camera system is filled with trades that have to be done right the first time — climbing, civils, solar sizing, conduit, grounding, cybersecurity, analytic tuning, VMS configuration, alarm routing — and a single weak link in that chain produces a camera that records the inside of an enclosure or an analytic that alarms on every shadow.

    Self-performance is the differentiator. The Twin Eagle crew that outfits the skid is the same crew that wires the electronics, the same crew that climbs the tower, the same engineer who provisioned the analytics in the design phase, and the same dispatcher who picks up the maintenance contract on day one. There is no third-party climbing subcontract, no scope gap on civils, no re-quote of the BoM, and no handoff between design intent and field reality.

    Six capabilities that make up the discipline

    Skid, Trailer & Cabinet Integration

    Twin Eagle Solutions outfits camera skids and trailers — custom-built to our spec by fabrication partners — in our shop, with cameras, edge servers, switches, radios, and power wired and bench-tested before they ever leave the building. The NEMA 3R / 4 / 4X enclosures and equipment cabinets are fabricated in-house, and the IP66/IP67-rated penetrations, sealed cable glands, anti-condensation heaters, vortex coolers, and proper bonding and grounding are all done by the same crew that wires the electronics. The result is a deployable platform that arrives at the pad ready to set, level, energize, and aim — not a parts kit to assemble in a windstorm.

    Pole, Tower & High-Mount Camera Installation

    Twin Eagle Solutions installs cameras and antennas at every mounting profile that an industrial site uses — wall and parapet mounts, monopoles, lattice towers, guyed towers, and existing infrastructure. Our certified climbers are in-house, OSHA 1910 compliant, and rescue-trained, with their own gin poles, climbing kits, and tower-rescue gear. Concrete pads, drilled-pier foundations, helical anchors, and pole-set crews are all part of the same self-performed scope. Tower capacity is confirmed with our structural partners against TIA-222 Rev. H before any antenna or camera is added to a tower.

    Power, Cabling & Site Civils

    We self-perform the trades that get a camera site energized. Solar arrays, battery banks, charge controllers, inverters, and combiner boxes are sized per the design and assembled in our shop or on the pad. AC power, conduit, transformers, and disconnects are run to NEC and NFPA 70 grounding standards. Outdoor-rated camera and network cabling is run in conduit or messenger-supported aerial drops with proper drip loops, weatherheads, and surge protection. UPS systems are sized for actual load and runtime, not nameplate.

    Camera Aiming, Edge Provisioning & Analytic Deployment

    Once the camera is on the pole, our field engineers aim, focus, and program the presets, AOIs, masks, and analytic regions per the engineered design. Edge servers are provisioned on-site with the agreed compute image, then VisionAery edge-AI models — liquid leak detection, flare monitoring, fire and smoke detection, tank level monitoring — are deployed, tuned against the actual scene, and validated against ground-truth events. Third-party camera-vendor analytics like PPE detection, license-plate reading, and zone monitoring are provisioned the same way. Tuning is iterative until the false-positive rate matches the operator's tolerance.

    Analytic Data Integration & Alarming

    An analytic that nobody hears is worthless. Twin Eagle Solutions integrates VisionAery and third-party analytic outputs into the systems the operator already uses — VMS bookmark and overlay events, SCADA tag writes via MQTT or OPC UA, email and SMS alerting, pager dispatch, and bidirectional VMS-to-SCADA bridges. We also stand up the dashboards, the alarm escalation tree, and the on-call rotation logic so a confirmed event reaches the right person in seconds, not the next morning.

    VMS Configuration, Commissioning & Site Acceptance

    VMS platforms — Genetec, Milestone, Avigilon, ExacqVision — are configured against the channel count, retention policy, recording strategy (continuous, motion, analytic-event), and user/role policy from the design. Network commissioning verifies link throughput, latency, and resilience against the design budget. Cybersecurity hardening, MFA, and remote-access tunnels are enabled and documented. Every site is closed out with a Site Acceptance Test — every camera, every analytic, every alarm path verified — and an as-built deliverable package that the Support & Maintenance team picks up on day one.

    Construction Standards

    Standards & frameworks our builds follow

    Every camera system Twin Eagle Solutions builds is constructed and commissioned against published engineering and safety standards — not house rules.

    TIA-222 Rev. H

    Tower & antenna structural

    OSHA 1910

    Tower climbing & fall arrest

    Certified climbers

    In-house, rescue-trained

    NEC / NFPA 70

    Power & grounding

    NEMA 3R / 4 / 4X

    Outdoor enclosures

    IP66 / IP67

    Camera ingress protection

    ONVIF Profile S/T/G/M

    Camera & VMS interop

    MQTT / OPC UA

    SCADA data integration

    Frequently asked questions about camera build & install

    What does Twin Eagle's Build & Install discipline actually include?

    Build & Install covers everything between a finished design and a commissioned, accepted camera system in the field — shop integration of partner-built skids and trailers and in-house NEMA enclosures; tower, monopole, and pole installation by in-house climbers; concrete pads, foundations, and site civils; AC and solar power systems with UPS; camera aiming, focus, and preset programming; edge-server provisioning and VisionAery analytic deployment; analytic data integration into VMS, SCADA, email and SMS alarming; VMS configuration; network commissioning; cybersecurity hardening; and a documented Site Acceptance Test with as-built deliverables.

    Are your tower climbers in-house?

    Yes. Twin Eagle Solutions employs our own OSHA 1910 compliant, rescue-trained certified climbers equipped with their own climbing and rigging gear. We do not subcontract camera-and-antenna installation work to third-party climbing crews, which is one of the reasons our quality control on tower-mounted cameras is consistent.

    Do you fabricate skids and trailers yourself or purchase them?

    Our skids and trailers are custom-built to our spec by dedicated fabrication partners, while Twin Eagle Solutions fabricates the NEMA enclosures and equipment cabinets in-house. Either way, our own crew wires the cameras, edge compute, switches, radios, solar, and battery and bench-tests the unit as a complete system before it ships — not assembled for the first time on the pad.

    How do you tune VisionAery analytics on a new install?

    Analytic deployment is iterative. After the camera is aimed and the edge server is provisioned, the VisionAery model is deployed and tuned against the actual scene — adjusting AOIs, masks, sensitivity, and confidence thresholds and validating against ground-truth events. Tuning continues until the false-positive rate matches the operator's tolerance and the true-positive rate meets the design intent. The process is documented in the Site Acceptance Test.

    Can you integrate analytic outputs into our SCADA or VMS?

    Yes. Analytic events from VisionAery and from third-party camera-vendor analytics are integrated into VMS bookmarks, SCADA tag writes via MQTT or OPC UA, email and SMS alerting, pager dispatch, and bidirectional VMS-to-SCADA bridges. The alarm escalation tree, on-call rotation, and dashboard standup are all part of the build scope.

    Do you handle solar power systems for cameras?

    Yes. Solar arrays, battery banks, charge controllers, inverters, combiner boxes, and the structural mounting are sized per the design and assembled in our shop or on the pad. Hybrid solar/AC and AC-with-UPS architectures are also self-performed.

    Do you do the civils — pads, foundations, conduit?

    Yes. Concrete pads, drilled-pier and helical-pier foundations, conduit, transformer pads, and ground rings are all part of the same self-performed Build & Install scope. We do not chase change orders for site civils after the fact because the design and the build are by the same team.

    What is the Site Acceptance Test?

    Every Twin Eagle camera site is closed out with a written Site Acceptance Test — every camera framed and focused, every analytic firing on ground-truth events, every alarm path validated end-to-end (VMS, SCADA, email, SMS), every cybersecurity control verified, and an as-built deliverable package handed off to the Support & Maintenance team and to the operator.

    Where do you operate?

    Twin Eagle Solutions has performed camera Build & Install work in the lower 48 states across multiple industries — oil & gas, water and wastewater utilities, electric utilities, and mining — with our highest concentration of oilfield work in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, DJ Basin, Anadarko / SCOOP / STACK, Marcellus, and Haynesville.

    Are you cybersecurity-aware during construction?

    Yes. Camera VLANs, OT-zone firewalls, deny-by-default policies, MFA-protected remote access, and centralized logging are configured and verified during commissioning per the design — not bolted on afterward. The cybersecurity posture of every site is documented in the Site Acceptance Test.

    Related disciplines

    01 · Design & Engineering

    Camera System Design & Engineering

    Site survey, camera placement, lens and sensor selection, edge-compute and VMS architecture, last-mile comms, solar sizing, and analytic-deployment design.

    03 · Support & Maintenance

    24/7 Managed Video Services

    24/7 callout & dispatch, proactive monitoring, analytic tuning, VMS health, and lifecycle management.

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