Use cases

Where LOBO towers work today and what they've caught: arrests, break-ins stopped, fires called in, and the footage that shows what happened when something goes wrong on site. Find the kind of site closest to yours.

Examples come from our incident reports and customer emails. Customer names and addresses are left out; faces, plates and signs are blurred.

Vacant buildings

Empty buildings, old ones and brand-new ones not yet leased, get stripped of copper wire, plumbing and rooftop HVAC units, usually at night. At one vacant building in Detroit, our agents have filed 124 incident reports since November 2025.

Tower camera at night: police officers walk a person out along a wooden fence beside the building.
Tower camera, 1:49 AM. Faces blurred.

Detroit, MI · Aug 31, 2026 · 12:21 AM

Arrest at a vacant building

A man parked on a side street, walked back to the building and tried to get in. Our agent called police. Officers searched the building and grounds for about two hours, found him and took him into custody.

Tower camera in daylight: two police officers with a man at a loading dock.
Tower camera, 5:21 PM. Faces blurred.

Fort Worth, TX · Nov 3, 2024 · 4:40 PM

Two burglars arrested in the act

Two men cut through the fence of a building under repair. Our agent had police dispatched, and officers arrested them on site. We submitted the video to Fort Worth police for prosecution.

Tower camera at night: a police car with its lights on and officers with a person beside a new building.
Tower camera, 4:40 AM. Faces blurred.

Georgetown, TX · Dec 21, 2025 · 4:13 AM

Trespasser removed by police

A trespasser on foot at a brand-new industrial building that hadn't been leased yet. He stayed after the alarm, so our agent called police, and officers had him off the property by 4:39.

When the builder handed the building over, the new owners kept the towers and added a fourth.

  1. Detroit, MI · Dec 2, 2025 · 1:41 AM

    A break-in. The thieves ran when the alarm went off, and police came.

  2. Detroit, MI · Feb 6, 2026 · 2:01 AM

    Two people on the roof. Our agent called 911, and police came and searched the building.

  3. Detroit, MI · Feb 25, 2026 · 11:05 PM

    Three people tried to break in and ran when the alarm went off.

  4. Detroit, MI · Aug 11, 2026 · 5:47 AM

    A man drove onto the site in a pickup, carrying a camera drone. Our agent reported him to police and notified the client.

LOBO inside an empty warehouse with a damaged ceiling, with a pickup parked inside. LOBO in an empty warehouse bay, with an orange extension cord running to its equipment box.

San Antonio, TX · Aug 28, 2026

Indoors, on wall power

Towers work inside buildings too. This one runs on a 120 V wall outlet inside an empty warehouse.

Warehouses and industrial

Crews cut into dock doors and fences, and go after brass and copper fittings, pallets, trailers and equipment.

Tower camera at night: a pickup at a warehouse's dock doors, with two people at the next door.
Tower camera, 11:19 PM. Faces and plate blurred.

Humble, TX · Aug 14, 2026 · 11:19 PM

Break-in stopped with the talk-down

Two vehicles pulled in, and the people in them started on a warehouse door with cutting tools. Our agent spoke to them through the tower's speaker. They gave up and drove off.

  1. Humble, TX · Sep 9, 2026 · 3:13 PM

    A man went for the brass backflow valves on the building's water line, a common scrap target. Our agent sounded the alarm and logged his plate, and he left.

  2. Dallas, TX · Oct 22, 2026 · 1:12 PM

    Dark smoke over a warehouse roof. Our agent called 911, and the fire department put the fire out.

LOBO beside a large warehouse's row of numbered dock doors. LOBO on a landscaped island in the parking lot of a new office and warehouse building. LOBO on the grass beside a new gray warehouse, with a pickup parked by the building.
LOBO unit 97 at the curb of a fenced industrial yard. LOBO beside the parking lot at the corner of a large warehouse with a two-story office. LOBO unit 72 from behind in a parking lot, with a warehouse in the background.

A security partner's name on two of these units is blurred.

Construction sites

Crews, subcontractors and deliveries come and go all day, and tools, materials and copper wire sit out overnight. When something gets damaged or goes missing, even by people who are allowed on site, the footage shows what happened.

Tower camera: an excavator parked against a newly built chain-link fence beside steel structures, with two workers nearby.
Tower camera, 9:34 AM. Faces blurred.

Georgia · Aug 25, 2026 · 9:31 AM

An excavator hits the new fence

An excavator operator backed into a newly built fence. Our team documented it from the footage, and the crew repaired the fence the same morning.

  1. Georgia · Oct 16, 2026 · overnight

    Keys went missing. Our team reviewed the night's footage and confirmed that nobody entered the site after hours.

LOBO at night beside a building going up, its blue and red lights on. LOBO on a red-dirt construction site, with excavators, pipe and a trailer behind it. An earlier LOBO on a construction site, beside a wheel loader and a jobsite trailer.

Commercial property

Lots and buildings that draw trespassers, drug use and car break-ins after hours.

Tower camera at night: a police car and an officer at a building's door, with a man standing by.
Tower camera, 11:03 PM. Faces and signs blurred.

Dallas, TX · Jun 13, 2025 · 11:03 PM

Arrest on a building's porch

People were using drugs on the porch of a building we watch. Our agent called police, who cleared several people off the property and arrested one after finding drugs.

Tower camera at night: firefighters spray a burning car in a parking lot.
Tower camera, 10:34 PM.

San Antonio, TX · Aug 1, 2026 · 10:22 PM

Car fire called in

A parked car caught fire in the lot. Our agent called 911, and the fire department put it out.

Data center and power infrastructure

Equipment yards and construction sites for data center power generation. Parts move around all day between crews and trucks, so when something goes missing, our team goes back through the footage to find out where it went.

Tower camera: a work cart crossing an equipment yard with large ring gaskets in its bed.
Tower camera, 1:51 PM.

West Texas · Aug 2026

Missing gaskets traced on camera

Gaskets went missing from an equipment yard. Going through ten days of footage from six towers, our team found gaskets riding around the yard in the bed of a work cart, moved by the site's own crew, and sent the client pictures of every vehicle that carried them.

LOBO unit 83 on a new concrete pad, with cranes, wind turbines and electrical structures in the distance. LOBO beside rows of new steel electrical structures, against a tree line. LOBO under a stormy sky on a power plant construction site, with generator stacks, tanks and a crane behind. LOBO on a gravel laydown yard under a blue sky, with wind turbines on the horizon.
LOBO unit 93 by shipping containers, with a substation's steel and cables behind it. LOBO from the front on a laydown yard: solar panel, equipment box with the Landsat mark, cameras on the mast. LOBO with its horn speaker and cameras, next to new steel electrical structures. LOBO unit 66 from behind on a laydown yard: horn speaker and cameras at the top of the mast, solar panel, rolling base.

Launch site

Towers on a launch site in South Texas. Their cameras recorded Starship's sixth flight test on November 19, 2024.

Liftoff from a tower by the launch mount. 41 seconds.
The same launch from a tower beside Starhopper. 33 seconds.
A LOBO tower at a launch site in South Texas, mast up, with a rocket lifting off behind it. A LOBO tower at dusk with its light on, beside a test vehicle and a lit launch tower. The camera head at the top of LOBO's mast, with a rocket on the launch tower behind it.

Military base

The 502d Security Forces Squadron's towers at Joint Base San Antonio, in the government configuration.

  1. Joint Base San Antonio · April 2025

    One tower went into service with the 502d Security Forces Squadron as a pilot.

  2. Joint Base San Antonio · February 2026

    An Air Force SBIR Phase III contract followed for eleven towers, feeding the base defense operations center.

Two rows of LOBO towers in the government configuration, labeled for the 502d Security Forces Squadron. A line of LOBO towers in the government configuration on a base parking lot.
The Squadron Kit

Services are supplemental and best-effort only. Land Satellite Technologies does not provide life-safety, guard, patrol, emergency dispatch, or guaranteed emergency-response services. Detection, deterrence, response times, law-enforcement action, and prevention of loss are not guaranteed. Subject to the MSA.

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