October 2, 2026
Sharpvue and Vorp Energy Form a Strategic Alliance, Putting Sharpvue OS on Every Vorp Trailer
Every Vorp Energy unit now ships with Sharpvue OS, ODIN, and the MySharpvue portal as standard. The two companies are also co-developing a joint trailer around Sharpvue's patent-pending 48-volt power architecture, and opening the BYOT program to the Vorp fleet already in the field.
Chapin, S.C. — Sharpvue and Vorp Energy today announced a strategic alliance that puts Sharpvue OS — the operating system behind every unit Sharpvue builds — on Vorp Energy's solar-powered mobile surveillance trailers, solar skids, and pole mounts. Every Vorp unit now ships with Sharpvue OS as a standard feature, configured and tested before it leaves the factory. The two companies are also co-developing a joint trailer, built on Vorp's production line around Sharpvue's patent-pending 48-volt power architecture, and are opening Sharpvue's BYOT program to the Vorp units already in the field.
The industry kept building trailers. Nobody built the software.
Mobile surveillance has grown the same way for a decade: by adding manufacturers. Each new entrant builds a chassis, a mast, a battery bank, and a box of cameras, then integrates a third-party video platform — a space the major cloud VMS vendors defined years ago. What almost nobody has built is the layer underneath the video: real diagnostics, real fleet management, and a unit that can fix itself. The result is hardware that ships, deploys, and then waits for a person to notice when something breaks.
That is the gap this alliance closes. Vorp builds hardware engineered to deploy fast and hold up in the field. Sharpvue builds the software that makes it legible and manageable from anywhere. Neither company is giving anything up to do it.
Vorp Energy
Sharpvue MAST
What the alliance does
- Sharpvue OS on every Vorp unit — Vorp trailers, solar skids, and pole mounts ship with cloud video, full diagnostics, ODIN, and the MySharpvue portal out of the box, at no additional licensing cost.
- A joint trailer — a new line purpose-built by Vorp Energy for Sharpvue to sell, combining Vorp's manufacturing capacity with Sharpvue's power architecture, mast, camera integration, and software.
- BYOT for the existing fleet — Vorp units already deployed can be retrofitted onto Sharpvue OS without buying new hardware.
- Both product lines keep running independently — Sharpvue continues to build and sell the MAST. Vorp continues to sell its own trailers. The alliance makes both lines stronger, not smaller.
“When we met the Vorp team, we were looking at the other half of the equation — hardware as good as our software. We are not competing with each other, we are completing each other. The customer ends up with a unit that is more reliable, more intelligent, and more cost-effective than what they can buy anywhere else today.”
The operating system the industry was missing
Sharpvue OS sits underneath the video layer rather than competing with it. It runs the unit itself — cameras, multi-carrier cellular with automatic failover, solar charge and battery management, and the strobe, siren, and talk-down hardware — and exposes all of it remotely. Video runs on the customer's choice of platform on top: Sharpvue iVISION, Alarm.com for Business, or OpenEye.
- One fleet, one login — GPS, battery, solar harvest, cellular signal, camera health, VMS status, and AI detections for every unit on one live map, whether it is a Sharpvue MAST or a Vorp trailer.
- Real-time unit diagnostics — every subsystem is monitored continuously, not inspected after somebody notices a problem.
- Remote control of everything — reboot a camera, power-cycle a gateway, or push firmware across the fleet without a truck roll.
- Service coordination and reporting — move requests, uptime, and activity numbers for customer reviews and SLAs, in the same portal.
- Open by design — standard RTSP streams and ONVIF support, so a unit can also feed a VMS the customer already operates.
ODIN comes with it
ODIN, Sharpvue's AI trailer engineer, is included on every unit running Sharpvue OS — which, as of today, includes every Vorp unit. ODIN reads the diagnostics, explains what is happening in plain language rather than error codes, and does the work: remote reboots, power cycles, firmware updates, and solar coaching.
- Auto-healing — a stuck gateway, a hung camera, a VMS that needs a power cycle: ODIN clears it the moment it appears and logs the fault, the fix, and the reasoning.
- Predictive service — ODIN flags components trending toward failure based on weather patterns and wear, so parts are replaced on a schedule rather than after a site goes dark.
- Escalation with the work already done — what ODIN cannot fix remotely, it hands over with the diagnosis attached, so a technician arrives knowing what they are driving to.
- Included — diagnostics and auto-healing ship with MySharpvue on every unit, with no add-on fees and no per-unit licensing.
“We built Sharpvue OS because the industry needed more than another camera on a pole. It needed an operating system — something that manages the entire unit, not just the video feed. ODIN was the next step: an engineer that does not sleep, does not miss a fault, and keeps units running before anyone knows there was a problem.”
Why Vorp
Vorp Energy has built solar-powered mobile surveillance trailers, solar skids, and pole mounts since 2012 — hardware engineered to deploy fast, run hard, and hold up in demanding field conditions. What Vorp had not offered until now was a software platform to match it.
“We build the best trailer hardware in the business — that is what we do. But our customers kept asking for more: real diagnostics, fleet visibility, AI, remote management. When we saw what Sharpvue had already built — ODIN, the auto-healing, the fleet platform, the MySharpvue portal — it was obvious. Partnering with Sharpvue lets us offer something we know is class-leading, and it lets us focus on what we do best.”
A joint trailer, and national coverage
The alliance goes beyond software. Sharpvue and Vorp Energy are co-developing a joint trailer that pairs Vorp's manufacturing capability with Sharpvue's proprietary 48-volt power architecture — a patent-pending system that has been running in the field for more than six years — along with Sharpvue's mast and camera integration.
“This is not two companies putting logos on each other's product. We are building a trailer together — our 48-volt system, our mast, our camera integration, manufactured on Vorp's line. Once that design is finished, West Coast production runs out of Vorp's facility to the same specification as a MAST built in Chapin.”
Between the two companies, the alliance covers both coasts from day one.
- South Carolina — Sharpvue's Class A manufacturing facility in Chapin, with capacity for five trailers per day, shipping nationwide.
- Vorp Energy — a 120,000-square-foot facility running five production lines, with capacity for fifteen units per day.
- Under evaluation — additional manufacturing capacity in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
- Shorter lead times — splitting production across coasts cuts the freight leg and the queue a customer waits behind.
The Vorp units already in the field
The alliance also activates Sharpvue's BYOT — Bring Your Own Trailer — program for Vorp units already deployed. A Vorp customer can retrofit an existing unit onto Sharpvue OS and gain cloud video, diagnostics, ODIN, fleet management, and the full MySharpvue portal without buying new hardware. A converted unit appears on the same fleet map as a factory-built one.
What comes next
Sharpvue's R&D facility is developing a diesel generator option sized to recharge the 48-volt system in a single short cycle rather than running continuously — aimed at winter deployments and sites where solar harvest alone will not carry the load. It is being designed to work with both Vorp and Sharpvue trailers.
“We met Dan and it just clicked. Vorp makes outstanding hardware. We make the software that makes it intelligent. Together we are building something the industry has not seen yet.”
About Vorp Energy
Vorp Energy LLC builds solar-powered mobile surveillance trailers, solar skids, and pole mounts from a 120,000-square-foot facility running five production lines. Founded in 2012. vorpenergy.com
Availability
Sharpvue OS ships as standard on new Vorp Energy units effective immediately. BYOT retrofits for existing Vorp units are available now, directly from Sharpvue and through the authorized dealer network. The joint trailer is in development, with availability to be announced. Sharpvue designs and builds its products in Chapin, South Carolina, and is NDAA Section 889 compliant.
About Sharpvue
Sharpvue designs and manufactures Mobile AI Surveillance Trailers (MAST), AI-powered NDAA-compliant cameras, portable surveillance units, and the iVISION cloud video management system. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chapin, South Carolina, Sharpvue builds drop-and-deploy surveillance for sites where grid power and permanent infrastructure don't reach. Sharpvue is NDAA Section 889 compliant and made in the USA.