February 15, 2026
Sharpvue Will Put Its Surveillance Platform on a Trailer It Did Not Build
The BYOT program replaces the top box on an existing surveillance trailer from any manufacturer, so an owner keeps the chassis, mast, batteries, and solar they already paid for. A companion trade-in program credits a trailer that is not worth converting against a new MAST.
Chapin, S.C. — Sharpvue today introduced BYOT — Bring Your Own Trailer — a program that converts an existing mobile surveillance trailer, built by any manufacturer, onto the Sharpvue platform by replacing its top box. The chassis, mast, battery bank, and solar array stay with the owner. Alongside it, the company opened a trade-in program for trailers that are not worth converting, crediting them against a new Sharpvue MAST trailer and service.
The software is the part that goes obsolete
A mobile surveillance trailer is four things: a chassis, a mast, a power system, and a top box. Three of those are steel, glass, and copper, and they do not become obsolete. The fourth carries the cameras, the radios, and the software — and it is the only part that determines what the trailer can actually do, or which company's software it is permitted to do it on.
That mismatch is what BYOT addresses. An owner whose trailer is mechanically sound but operationally stuck does not need a new trailer. They need a new top box.
What a converted trailer runs
A converted unit is not a lesser tier of the product. It runs the same software stack as a factory-built MAST:
- A choice of platform — Sharpvue iVISION, Alarm.com for Business, or OpenEye. The customer picks, and can change their mind later without changing hardware.
- Open by design — the cameras publish standard RTSP streams and support ONVIF, so a converted trailer can also feed a third-party VMS the customer already operates.
- Continuous cloud recording — footage is retained off the unit, and owning the hardware does not require a monitoring subscription.
- Edge AI with active deterrence — detection events trigger strobe, siren, and two-way talk-down at the unit rather than a report read the next morning.
- Multi-carrier 5G/LTE with automatic carrier-to-carrier failover, and optional Starlink where there is no cellular service at all.
- MySharpvue and ODIN — the converted unit appears on the same fleet map as any MAST, with remote diagnostics and remote fixes.
“We keep hearing the same story. Somebody bought a trailer, the steel is fine, the mast is fine, the solar is fine — and they are stuck, because the box on top only talks to one company's software and that company is not returning their calls. Nobody should have to buy a whole new trailer to get out of that. Bring us the trailer. We will put our head unit on it and you can run it on whatever platform you want. And if it is genuinely not worth converting, we will tell you that too, and give you credit for it against a new one. We are tired of hearing about the other guys' trailers. We would rather just fix it.”
What is replaced, and what stays
The old enclosure and camera head come off. A Sharpvue head unit goes on in their place — a sealed enclosure carrying a panoramic camera, a PTZ dome, and a strobe speaker for talk-down — and is tied into the trailer's existing DC power and solar charge controller.
- Stays with the trailer — frame, axle, jacks, mast and winch, DOT lighting, solar array, and battery bank.
- Replaced — the enclosure, cameras, radios, and the software the old box was locked to.
- Assessed before any work is scheduled — Sharpvue evaluates the chassis, mast, and power system first, and declines conversions where the trailer cannot carry the load or the repair cost exceeds the value of the work.
- NDAA Section 889 compliant cameras, designed and built in the United States.
Built for fleets as much as single units
The program is aimed as much at dealers and rental operators as at end users. A rental fleet assembled over several years typically spans multiple vintages and, often, multiple manufacturers. Converting that fleet in batches upgrades its capability and consolidates it onto one platform and one dashboard, without the capital cost of replacing it and without pulling every unit off revenue at once.
Trade-in program
Where a trailer is not a good conversion candidate — frame or mast damage, a battery bank at the end of its life, or a chassis whose paperwork will not clear — Sharpvue will appraise it and credit it against a new MAST trailer and the service behind it. Trade-ins are appraised individually on make, age, condition, and quantity rather than against a published schedule, and the credit is issued in writing next to the price of the new unit so the customer can compare the two directly.
Availability
BYOT conversions and trade-in appraisals are available now, directly from Sharpvue and through the authorized dealer network. Assessments begin with photographs of the trailer and its make, model, and year. Sharpvue designs and manufactures the MAST line in Chapin, South Carolina.
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.