LVT leases its mobile units, so this is not a software swap: its own agreement states subscription hardware is provided, not sold, and remains LVT's property. That means the coverage those units gave you leaves with them. Here is how to size that gap first, then move the fixed estate onto cameras the business already owns.
This switch moves hardware, not just software, so the diagram tracks the units as well as the frames. Both rows describe what each vendor publishes.
Four moments when teams running leased mobile units start this conversation. If the requirement genuinely is a self-powered unit on ground with no cameras, none of this replaces that and you should keep it.
LVT's published master services agreement states that an order automatically renews for successive terms unless a party gives notice of non-renewal at least 30 days before the end of the current term. On a hardware lease that clause is the whole timeline. Work backwards from it, because a project that is technically ready in week five and misses the notice window by a day pays for another full term across every deployed unit.
Nothing on the LVT pages read describes ingesting a customer's own fixed cameras. Its published integrations run the other way: LVT streams its unit feeds into Genetec Security Center, and it names Axon Fusus and Immix alongside an open API. That is useful, and it also means the yard and the interior stay two systems with two consoles and two contracts unless something covers both.
LVT states that footage is typically kept for 30 days and that each customer can customize that period. For a site with an active claims process, an insurer requirement or a legal hold across the estate, retention becomes a per-deployment negotiation rather than a storage decision you make once. Worth pricing before it becomes a surprise on a renewal quote.
LVT publishes its alert response packaging: Standard covers up to 450 alerts per month, Expanded covers up to 1500 and anything above 1500 alerts per month requires a custom pricing package. It is worth reading carefully, because it means a site that gets busier or noisier gets more expensive on a curve you do not fully control.
The structural differences that decide whether a switch is worth starting.
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LVT data comes from LVT's own public documentation at lvt.com, read on August 14, 2026, including its FAQ, its hardware, platform integrations and alert response pages, plus its published master services agreement. Where LVT publishes nothing, this table records the absence rather than guessing at a value.
A rollout that keeps coverage live throughout. Most sites go live inside six weeks.
This phase is a gap list, not a coverage map, and that is what makes it different from a software migration. Walk each deployed unit and write down what it actually watches, then mark how much of that ground an existing fixed camera can already see from a building, a pole or a gate. Whatever is left is the real scope of the project. Pull the order form at the same time and put the renewal date and the 30 day notice window at the top of the plan.
Run one site with the units still deployed and Spot AI live on that site's fixed cameras at the same time. The overlap is the whole point here, and more so than on a software switch: it is the only way to measure the gap honestly, because it shows you which events the fixed estate catches on its own and which ones only the unit ever saw. Pick the site with the most incidents rather than the largest one.
Sequence this backwards from the notice date. Get the fixed estate signed off first, then close the gap list, then give notice and only then arrange the return: LVT's agreement references shipping charges for the return of subscription hardware, and its FAQ recommends a certified field technician for any move, repair or adjustment of a unit. Export anything you need before the units leave rather than after, because the retention clock and the contract both stop at the same moment.
Once the fixed estate is stable, close the remaining gap deliberately rather than by reflex. Some ground genuinely needs a self-powered unit and Spot AI's mobile deployments come through trailer partners rather than from Spot AI itself, so that decision is a procurement conversation. The rest of the phase is the upside: safety and operations agents on the same fixed cameras, an Iris detection for something specific to your site and setting what fires at 03:00.
The six that come up in every one of these conversations, including the one where the honest answer is keep a unit.
Then some of that ground still needs a unit, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Spot AI is software running on cameras a business already owns, and its mobile deployments come through trailer partners rather than from Spot AI itself. The assess phase exists precisely to separate the ground that genuinely needs a self-powered unit from the ground an existing camera already sees, because on most estates that split is nothing like the one people assume.
Then the notice clause matters more than the technology. LVT's agreement states an order renews automatically unless notice of non-renewal is given at least 30 days before the end of the current term, so the plan runs backwards from that date. Assess and pilot cost little and can run inside the existing term, which is also when the comparison is most honest because both systems are live.
Not if the sequence holds. The units stay deployed through assess and pilot, the fixed estate has to pass a full week of sign-off before anything is returned and the return is deliberately the last step rather than the first. The one risk worth naming is a gap the assess walk missed, which is why the pilot runs with both live rather than in place of the units.
Export it before the units leave. LVT states footage is typically kept for 30 days with a customisable period, and its agreement describes data copies being requested while an order term is in effect, adding that it may agree to provide them for an additional fee. That wording puts the export inside the term, not after it, so treat it as a dated deliverable of the cutover phase.
Budget it and book it, because it is the step that surprises people. LVT's agreement references shipping charges for the return of all subscription hardware, and its FAQ recommends using a certified field technician for any move, repair or adjustment, noting it is the customer's responsibility to understand each state's regulations for setup, takedown and transport. None of that is unusual for leased hardware. It is simply work that a software migration does not have.
The two do not price on the same axis, so a single number would be misleading. LVT states units can cost anywhere from $1,500 to $4,000 depending on needs and configurations, and prices alert response by monthly alert volume. Spot AI charges a per-camera subscription covering the software and the IVR. Quote both against the identical site list over three years and keep the mobile line separate rather than blending it in.
Bring a camera list and we will tell you what works as it is.
Customer-reported outcomes from named Spot AI customers.
Staccato went from first conversation to full deployment across an 800-acre campus in seven weeks, on the camera infrastructure it already had.
Bridge33 Capital standardized video across 25 plus properties, each acquisition arriving with a different camera system, and cut footage search from hours to minutes.
The YMCA of Greater Richmond deployed 17 locations in two weeks and standardized retention across the estate.
"Within four minutes of the alarm going off, Spot AI gave us video footage of the incident on the responding officers' phones. We had five recoveries within the hour."
Not if they are subscription hardware. LVT's own master services agreement states that subscription hardware is provided, not sold, remains the property of LVT and may not be transferred or sold by the customer, and it references shipping charges for its return. It also states that title to purchased hardware passes to the customer on delivery, so check which category each deployment falls into before planning anything.
No. Spot AI reads any ONVIF or RTSP IP camera and brings older analog channels in through the Intelligent Video Recorder, so the cameras already on your buildings, poles and gates work as they are. Nothing on the wall moves and no coax is pulled. The hardware question on this switch is about the leased units, not about your own cameras.
The technical work runs on the usual clock: a week to assess, a fortnight of pilot on one site, then site-by-site cutover, so most estates are live inside six weeks. The contract runs on a different clock, because the notice window sits at least 30 days before a renewal date, and on this switch the contract clock is usually the longer of the two.
LVT states that the business deploying the platform retains exclusive access to all camera footage and data, that limited LVT personnel access footage for technical support and quality assurance and that third-party requests go through the footage owner. Its agreement also states the customer retains title to data collected through the system. That is the position to rely on when you schedule the export.
Whatever the assess walk said would cover it, which is why that walk is the first step rather than an afterthought. In practice most estates find that a good share of the ground is already visible to a fixed camera nobody had running anything useful on, some of it needs a new fixed camera on an existing pole and a smaller remainder genuinely needs a mobile unit from a trailer partner.